AMER, EMEA, and APAC is looking to build and lead a world-class global quality organization that protects product integrity, supports business performance, and enhances consumer trust.
Requirements
- Experience in technical engineering discipline (e.g. manufacturing, mechanical, industrial, process, quality, etc.)
- Proven problem-solving and negotiation capabilities along with a process-focused perspective.
- Experience in global teams, strategic initiatives, budgets, and managing performance by metrics.
Responsibilities
- Ensure VF’s Global Quality Management System effectively governs apparel, footwear, and equipment—delivering brand-right, consumer-relevant quality into the marketplace across diverse product categories, price points, and regional requirements.
- Execute a tiered risk-based quality control approach for the global quality organization.
- Build and deploy enterprise-wide quality analytics and KPIs to enable proactive decision-making, monitor product performance, and optimize quality processes across the end-to-end value chain—from materials and design through to final product delivery.
- Lead the global strategy for supplier quality, ensuring vendors meet defined product, process, and compliance standards through structured certification, onboarding, and continuous monitoring programs.
- Act as the voice of the consumer by integrating feedback, returns data, and complaints into upstream quality improvements.
- Oversee global strategies for material and color quality to ensure compliance with brand specifications and performance standards through structured processes and structured certification.
- Establish a centralized governance model that ensures consistency in quality standards, documentation, and practices across regions.
Other
- Build, lead, and mentor a high-performing global quality team across AMER, EMEA, and APAC.
- Drive a culture of accountability, continuous learning, and consumer focus across all levels of the quality organization.
- Serve as a strategic advisor to senior leadership and cross-functional partners, providing insights and solutions on emerging quality risks and opportunities.
- Foster collaboration across sourcing, development, supply chain, and brand teams to embed quality into business planning and execution.
- 15 year (s) Minimum Relevant Experience
- 10 year (s) Minimum Supervisory Experience
- Exceptional communication and presentation skills, both written and verbal, to effectively address all levels of the organization.
- Strong interpersonal, collaboration and team working skills with proven ability to coach and build high performing teams.
- Strong influencing & leadership skills.
- Demonstrated ability to successfully handle multiple projects and programs.
- Proven experience of managing multi-brand teams in multi locations and well versed in remotely managing regional teams.
