Material Quality Analyst

As a Material Quality Analyst, you support the effectiveness, consistency, and continuous improvement of Arc'teryx's Material Quality function through data analytics, reporting, quality systems administration, documentation management, and operational support. You provide meaningful insights and performance visibility that enable data-driven decision making across the Material Quality organization.

You work closely with the Material Quality teams in Design Centre (DC) and Hong Kong Office (HKO) to monitor quality performance, maintain quality systems and standards documentation, support quality investigations and continuous improvement initiatives, and develop reporting tools that improve operational efficiency and quality effectiveness.

Your work directly contributes to improving material quality performance, supplier quality visibility, process consistency, and organizational effectiveness across the global supply chain.

As a Material Quality Analyst, you will support multiple quality disciplines including Textile Quality, Trims Quality, Color Quality, and Supplier Quality. You will collaborate with material quality specialists, managers, suppliers, laboratories, and cross-functional stakeholders to improve reporting, analytics, documentation, and quality process effectiveness.

• Maintaining, and utilizing dashboards, reports, and Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) to monitor material quality performance, supplier performance, testing activities, material approvals, and quality incidents.
• Collecting, validating, analyzing, and reporting quality data from multiple systems to identify trends, process gaps, risks, and improvement opportunities.
• Supporting the preparation of management reviews, business updates, quality performance reports, and operational metrics.
• Maintaining and managing Material Quality databases, scorecards, reporting tools, and quality management systems to ensure data accuracy, accessibility, and consistency.
• Managing Material Quality documentation and document control processes, including standards, procedures, test methods, training materials, and quality records.
• Coordinating the collection, tracking, and reporting of corrective actions, supplier performance indicators, quality incidents, and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Coordinating operational and administrative activities that support Material Quality programs, including sample receipt and distribution, spectrophotometer measurements, laboratory submissions, shipping and receiving activities, documentation management, record retention, and quality archive maintenance.
• Coordinating quality initiatives, benchmarking activities, governance programs, action tracking, and continuous improvement projects.

• Reviewing and updating supplier quality manuals and associated documentation.
• Developing standard operating procedures and harmonized quality processes across regions and functions.
• Monitoring material quality programs and analyzing quality, testing, and supplier performance data to support leadership reviews and KPI reporting.

• You hold a degree in Business, Data Analytics, Engineering, Quality Management, Operations, Statistics, or a related discipline, or possess equivalent professional experience.
• You have 3+ years of experience in analytics, technical writing, operations, quality systems, project coordination, business intelligence, or related functions.
• You possess strong analytical skills and are proficient in Microsoft Excel, reporting, dashboards, and data…