Manager, Material Quality, Polymer – Trims

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🇻🇳 Vietnam – Remote

⏰ Full Time

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👔 Manager

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VF Corporation

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10,000+ employees

Founded 1899

🏭 Manufacturing

👗 Fashion

🛒 Retail

Manufacturing • Fashion • Retail

VF Corporation is a global leader in branded lifestyle apparel, footwear, and accessories, with a diverse portfolio of iconic brands including The North Face, Vans, and Timberland. The company is committed to sustainability and innovation in its operations and products, aiming to enhance the performance and style of its offerings.

📋 Description

• Manage footwear raw-material quality, focusing on leather and polymers • Ensure materials meet VF quality, performance, compliance, sustainability and brand requirements throughout bulk production • Manage quality standards and risk assessments for leather, footwear polymers and trims • Establish and maintain leather quality requirements covering grading, cutting yield, thickness, shade, grain appearance, physical performance and restricted-substance compliance • Assess tannery controls for incoming hides, wet-end and finishing processes, recipe management, lot segregation, color continuity and lot-level traceability • Prevent and resolve leather-specific defects including shade variation, loose grain, cracking, peeling, dye transfer, crocking, water spotting, mold and finish inconsistency • Review material specifications, test results, production processes, failure trends and root causes; recommend corrective and preventive actions • Identify and manage material quality risks during development, commercialization and bulk production • Evaluate supplier quality systems, technical capability, process controls and production readiness • Use audits, scorecards, performance data and KPIs to improve supplier quality and accountability • Maintain quality controls and traceability from T2 material suppliers through T1 footwear factories • Lead or support material certification, supplier training, technical calibration and continuous improvement • Partner with Product Development, Global Materials, GMS, Color, Technical Development, Sourcing, Quality, Compliance, brands, suppliers and laboratories • Communicate risks, business impact, options and recommendations to stakeholders • Set priorities and provide coaching, feedback, technical guidance and development support to the team • Set direction, connect team goals with business priorities and clarify roles, expectations and decisions • Use technical knowledge, consumer needs and data to improve operations • Build cross-functional partnerships and develop a high-performing team through coaching, feedback, accountability and career development • Ensure materials meet VF and brand requirements, risks are resolved early, corrective actions remain effective, supplier capability improves, milestones are supported and team collaboration grows

🎯 Requirements

• 8+ years of experience in footwear raw materials, material development, R&D, manufacturing, engineering, supplier quality or a related field • 3+ years of people leadership, team-lead, project-lead or matrix-leadership experience • Strong knowledge of leather and/or footwear polymers and trims, manufacturing processes, performance, failure modes and quality controls • Hands-on knowledge of leather types, tanning and finishing methods, grading systems, color approval, physical and chemical testing, and tannery quality management • Experience with ISO 9001, 8D, SPC, CPK, FMEA, Six Sigma and 5S • Strong analytical, problem-solving, project-management and stakeholder-management skills • Good knowledge of Excel and PowerPoint; Tableau or similar analytics experience is helpful • Excellent written and spoken English • Ability to travel based on business needs • Bachelor’s degree in Leather technology, Polymer Science, Chemical engineering, Materials Science, Manufacturing Engineering or a related field preferred • Mandarin or another relevant Asian language is helpful

🏖️ Benefits

• Benefits that encourage mental, physical and financial well-being • Inclusion and diversity initiatives • Respectful, open and authentic workplace culture

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