Senior Technologist - Maternity Cover

We are looking for a Senior Technologist for our Dresses and Jersey area. Quality means consistently meeting customers' expectations whilst ensuring fitness for purpose and meeting regulatory requirements. Within your department you will drive the quality of the delivered products by driving the implementation of the New Look quality framework. To work with the wider teams to deliver better value, cost price and lead time through product engineering and supplier management.

To apply your proven knowledge of quality assurance techniques and processes to drive continuous improvement and to set an example of what good look like to the wider quality and BMD teams Deputises in the absence of the Technical Manager.

• Understands the Business Strategy and how that impacts your department
• Plays a part in forming and implementing Quality Strategy within your own product category whilst contributing across the wider quality team.
• Is able to represent the quality team in appropriate x business forums

• Works with customer insight and tools to understand customer expectations.
• Conduct regular New Look store visits and DC E comm visits to stay in touch with delivered quality and customer reactions.
• Stays informed with current market trends and regularly benchmarks product to identifying competitor advances to drive development.
• Uses data from all customer insights to implement change, for continuous product improvement

• Ensures all quality processes are aligned and feed into the department critical path.
• Collaborate with BMD team to develop and drive department strategy.
• Regularly works to co‑coordinate wider cross department activities on behalf of the quality team.
• Full knowledge of key profit drivers and supporting the associated trading activities.
• Proactively challenge BMD at every stage to ensure customer expectations are met

• Owns and drives the Quality Framework, ensuring it is embedded in the departmental WOW.
• Focus on quality assurance and maintains robust quality management processes throughout the value chain.
• Recognises the global nature of the business and ensures that product meets legal obligations.
• Proactively uses the feedback data from all streams to implement corrective action plans for continuous improvement.
• Consult and inform other areas of the business as appropriate to maintain brand consistency.
• Regularly steps outside of their immediate department responsibilities to promote best practice
• Acts as a mentor and coach in the wider quality team

• Uses manufacturing knowledge to agree product construction and suitability for mass production.
• Use product engineering to deliver best cost price and value whilst operating within the quality framework
• Uses comprehensive supply base knowledge to develop the right product with the right capable supplier.
• Be the go to person in BMD team for all things quality or manufacturing related.
• As a senior technologist identifies the benefits of a transfer of their skills and knowledge to the wider quality and BMD teams to improve decision making and purchasing practices.
• Uses their supply and commercial knowledge effectively to support in negotiation and mediations

• Be the risk assessment ambassador for the product category.
• Practising and embedding risk assessment as part of the quality framework process.
• Where product falls outside the framework, use the risk assessment skills deliver solution based corrective action/continuous improvement.

• Use your specialist product knowledge to deliver product that is right first time
• Share your specialist product knowledge to upskill the BMD team
• Continuously updating & maintaining the framework to ensure consistent quality within agreed lead times

• Apply material/component knowledge to assure performance and compliance.
• Deliver consistent standards of fit through knowledge of body shape, pattern technology and grading.
• Manage packing and labelling requirements to ensure consistency of brand and compliance.
• Solutionises and promotes the right transit methods for products, ensuring no erosion of their value to customer and New Look.

• A senior technologist fully embraces an assurance approach.
• Is employing new technologies, feedback loops and recognizes the benefits of frameworks, process and supplier engagement over a product by product approach to deliver consistent product.
• Promotes best practice internally and…