Senior Quality Assurance Technologist

My client is looking to recruit a Senior QA Technologist to join their ever growing team as the business continues to go from strength to strength.

Job Summary

The Senior product technologist is responsible for overseeing quality assurance processes within the product lines of toys, stationery, and art & craft supplies.

This role ensures that all products meet safety, quality, and compliance standards, staying aligned with industry regulations and internal standards.

Working collaboratively with cross-functional teams, including product development, merchandising, to deliver safe and high-quality products to customers.

Key Responsibilities

Quality Assurance and Compliance

• Ensure all products meet quality, safety, and compliance requirements.
• Ensure where required refinement of the process is put forward to Import and Quality Merchandising Manager and Commercial director to ensure consistent drive for the best standards
• Lead internal product testing plan approvals for all UK Team and ensure collaboration with Ningbo office on testing plans/cost savings.
• Maintain records of QA activities for your orders, including sealing comments & testing results.
• Support the QA UK team with the roll out of the style file and new improved ways of working.

Product Development and Testing

• Work closely with product development teams to integrate quality standards at the design stage for toy product categories.
• Review and approve product specifications, providing expert advice on quality control measures and test plans on your category area.
• Conduct risk assessments on new and existing products, analysing potential safety or quality issues on your category areas.

Vendor and Supplier Management

• Collaborate with suppliers to resolve quality-related issues, maintaining strong relationships and open lines of communication with your orders/categories.
• Ensure any vendor issues/quality issues are flagged to QA Manager in Ningbo & also the Commercial Director for exploration and CAP

Continuous Improvement

• Identify opportunities for quality improvements throughout the product lifecycle and communicate effectively those ideas with Commercial director and Import/QA Manager
• Stay updated on regulatory changes, and best practices within the QA and ensure this is communicated to other team members internally and at the Ningbo office.
• Ensure you provide support to other QA team members, product development and other internal stakeholders
• Support commercial director with organisation of required training needed to support the teams knowledge on PD / QA.
• Continue to feed the team with product recall info which is relevant to the company categories.

Only relevant candidates will be contacted