Quality Compliance Manager - Furniture

Job description / Role

As the Quality Compliance Manager, you will develop, implement, communicate and follow up an effective compliance process, to ensure that both Critical to Quality and Customer Perceived Quality is checked end to end, based on set requirements, for both product and documentation, in order to meet set Quality goals.

Our client a leading UAE company is looking to bring on board their new Quality Compliance Manager to help drive the business forward.

Description:
* Develop, implement, communicate a clear product compliance process, guidelines, working methods, checklists SOP, including IT system support.
* Develop, implement, communicate and follow up the KPI measurements for product compliance overall and specifically for each function and entity, and for quality control approval (QCA) before shipment.
* Develop QC inspection field test methods for customer perceived quality requirement in collaboration with Quality Requirement Manager.
* Lead and develop operational QC inspections including planning, execution, analysis and reporting to suppliers, warehouses and in stores.
* Set up a QC inspection IT System for planning, execution, analysis, reporting and documentation of inspection results.
* Set up collaboration and a continuous improvement compliance program with suppliers, planning and external approved test labs.
* Set up communication and dialogue with corporate quality to ensure quality process is in alignment with company's standards and procedures.
* Train staff and suppliers in QC inspection process and standards
* Lead, develop, motivate and manage people to deliver on set goals

Job Offer:
Attractive package

Requirements

* Engineering or post graduate in Quality or Business Administration
* Minimum 10 years' experience of product compliance and QC inspection work with minimum of 5 years leadership experience.
* Must have experience in furnishings industry. Must have expertise in a global set up for product compliance and QC inspection for consumer products.
* Must have expertise in lab testing, supplier and supply chain collaboration.
* Must have elementary expertise in consumer product requirements and standards.
* Knowledge and Industry expertise in furniture.
* Ability to build strong strategies and processes to drive overall set goals.
* Ability to build team from scratch to the highest level of global working standards
* Effective communicator with excellent relationship building & interpersonal skills
* Fluent in English for both oral and written (Chinese and Indian language is an advantage).

About the Company

Michael Page is one of the world's leading professional recruitment consultancies, specializing in the placement of candidates in permanent, contract, temporary and interim positions with clients around the world.

The Group has operations in the UK, Continental Europe, Asia-Pacific and the Americas. In the Middle East we focus on the areas of:

Finance & Accounting Banking & Financial Services Procurement Property & Construction Engineering & Supply Chain Oil & Gas Technical and Engineering Human Resources Sales Marketing Technology Secretarial Executive Search Legal

The Group operates through 161 offices in 33 countries and employs over 5,000 employees worldwide.