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woolworthsgroup.com.au
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About The Role
This role will partner with our Quality team in Australia, Designers, Sourcing Team, and Suppliers/factories to ensure our own brand products are safe, compliant, and great quality for our customers. Acting as a critical technical bridge, this role ensures fits and quality standards are maintained and are aligned to the BIG W standards across our own brand clothing range. By driving supplier empowerment and digital 3D fit innovations in Asia, this role supports the delivery of great value products for our customers.
What You'll Do
- This role will partner with our Fit & Quality Partner Aus, Designers, Sourcing Team and suppliers/factories to ensure our own brand products are safe , compliant and great quality for our customers.
- Garment construction experience including pattern making and understanding of grading to drive product fit simplification, Fit and evaluate all samples against tech pack with Stakeholders.
- Utilise 3D tools and software to evaluate FIT, driving the business transition toward digital sample approvals in Asia to reduce physical iterations.
- Provide suggestions of the best way to construct or adjust garment and resolve any potential style and fit issues. Review Bronze, Silver and Gold Seal samples along with required QA documentation
- To apply critical thinking and informed decision making to develop risk-based and customer centric product requirements in briefs, desktop review forms and test metrics
- Engage with both internal and external stakeholders to support their understanding of product safety , quality and compliance requirements, and how they help us to launch safe and value products for our business units.
- Ensure size standards, construction and fit of samples/production are consistent with BIGW requirements
- Exercising discipline and governance to ensure that the products launched in our stores meet our requirements by consistently applying the NPD process for Own Brand products .
- Ensure each product is entered fully into the product database PLMS and is updated with all new information as it comes to hand.
- Driving continuous improvement by reviewing customer complaints to identify emerging safety and quality trends and proactively advising on the necessary changes to prevent or reduce them.
- Specialise in a department, but be flexible to work across the BIG W business.
- To ensure all factories which produce our own brand products meet the compliance requirements for Woolworths Supplier Excellence and Responsible Sourcing Policy.
- Investigate product incidents (returns, complaints or feedback) using risk based thinking to determine whether withdrawals or recalls are necessary to ensure the safety of our customers and team.
What You'll Bring
- Sound knowledge of garment construction, pattern making, garment grading and a full understanding of the fit process.
- Good understanding of relevant safety and compliance standards for clothing product range.
- Strong communication and problem solving skills
Behaviors
- Putting Customers 1st
- Always Improving
- Working E2E as one team
- Execute Freedom within a framework
- Keeping things simple
- Product Love
KPIs
- Continuous improvement in the VOC Quality score for clothing
- Zero avoidable OB withdrawals / recalls due to product safety or quality faults.
- Stakeholder feedback on partnering relationships
What you’ll experience
- Be a part of Australia’s largest retailer
- Constant mentoring and training provided
- Generous performance based bonus
- 20 days annual leave
- A flexible approach to work
- Premium insurance coverage for you and your dependants
Everyone belongs at Woolworths Group
Diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging are key to realising our purpose of better together for a better tomorrow. We recognise the value our team’s diversity brings to our business, customers, and communities and that teams with diverse experiences and backgrounds enrich our group and are better able to innovate and solve problems. As one of the largest employers in Australia and New Zealand, we aim to create a truly inclusive workplace where everyone feels that they belong, can be their best selves, and reach their full potential.
We encourage all candidates to apply; please let us know in your application if we can support you with any adjustments in the hiring process.
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