Quality Assurance Manager - Women’s Apparel; QA Import

Quality Assurance Manager
- Women’s Apparel (QA Import)

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The Role: Quality Assurance Manager
- Women’s Apparel

The Manager of Quality Assurance is responsible for driving product compliance and quality consistency across core QA processes — care label approvals, third-party inspection report review, fabric and garment testing, and high-return investigations for internationally produced product. This is a report-driven role: you are managing quality outcomes mainly through analysis and vendor communication, not physical warehouse inspection. You are the key communication link between overseas vendors, third-party inspection partners, internal QC, and the Production, Tech Services, Fabric, and Merchandising teams.

What You’ll Do:

• Overseas Inspection & Audit Management (~65%): Review 3rd-party reports (QIMA, Intertek, Baak, etc.). You will release passing shipments, troubleshoot workmanship/measurement issues for failures, and hold shipments missing approved TOP samples. This is a report-based function — you are managing quality outcomes through analysis and vendor communication. You’ll also manage the 3-week audit plan and follow up on unscheduled vendor audits.
• Care Label Compliance (~12%): Verify vendor-submitted labels against BOM, PIM, and Tech Packs. You’ll identify discrepancies, request vendor corrections, and update PIM layouts to ensure total accuracy.
• Fabric & Garment Testing (~11%): Manage the end-to-end testing process. This includes reviewing overseas fabric reports, processing internal test requests (preparing yardage/forms), managing retests, and communicating rejection or replacement instructions to suppliers.
• Planning & QC Capacity (~2%): Track TOP/Tech sample arrivals and build weekly QC capacity vs. demand charts to ensure the team stays ahead of incoming volume.
• Returns & Escalation Analysis (~4%): Partner with Merch/Production to investigate high-return items. You’ll coordinate inventory pulls, conduct measurement checks against original inspection results, and prepare samples/findings for executive review.
• Special Call-Outs (~2%): Investigate escalated issues from Import Production, coordinate re-audits, and ensure vendors implement corrective actions to close out quality gaps.

What You’ll Need:

• Experience: 4–6 years in Apparel Quality Control, QA, or Production. Experience must include managing offshore vendor quality through third-party inspection and testing programs. Candidates with warehouse or distribution QC backgrounds alone will not be considered.
• Technical Mastery: Strong knowledge of garment construction, fabric behavior, and inspection standards (AQL, inline vs. final audits). Candidates must demonstrate both garment and fabric expertise — fabric performance knowledge (colorfastness, shrinkage, seam strength) is required, not a plus.
• Documentation Savvy: Ability to cross-reference complex data across BOMs, PIMs, Tech Packs, and lab reports.
• System
  
  Skills:
  
  Intermediate Excel proficiency (vlookups, pivot tables). Experience with Net Suite or PIM systems is a major plus.
• Testing Knowledge: Familiarity with fabric performance standards (colorfastness, shrinkage, seam strength) and lab testing methods.
• Education: Bachelor’s degree (Textiles, Apparel Manufacturing, or Supply Chain) or equivalent professional experience.

Who You Are:

• Detail-Obsessed: You notice the small discrepancies in a care label or a lab report that others…