Procurement & Quality Manager

For Luciano Barbetta SpA, a Company belonging to the Group and dedicated to Jersey, we are looking for a:

Direct Procurement & Quality Manager

The Direct Procurement & Quality Manager directly reports to the Supply Chain Manager. He/she is responsible for suppliers' management, purchasing and procurement of textiles and accessories, leftover inventory and raw material quality control.

Main Responsibilities

Supplier management:

• Prices and delivery times bargaining;
• Corrective actions activations and production problems follow up;
• Put in place qualitative corrective actions to prevent any possible technical issues;
• Control of progress during the production phases;
• Litigation bargaining.

Control Centers Management:

• Establish quality standards, thanks to significant textile and production process experience;
• Control of execution times, costs and quality of the work done.

Team Management

• Purchasing team management, so guarantee that work proceeds as smoothly as possible, thanks to a good attitude to problem solving and good relationship skills;
• Interaction with internal production offices: planning and industrialization.

Leftover

• Management and monitoring of warehouse inventories;
• Special recycling and optimization projects organization, in order to "clean up" the warehouse;
• Exchange of information that can prevent any production problems, related to suppliers and/or quality of items included in the collection;
• Proposals for possible items replacements, in order to found and proven quality problems and/or supply times;
• Performance / quality and cost reports of the activities carried out.

Key Experiences

• High school diploma or University degree, preferably with a major in textile;
• Experience with Jersey fabric (processes and finished product;
• Proficiency in MS Office;
• Fluency in English;
• Good knowledge of production processes;
• Strong passion and sensibility for environmental issues;
• Good relational skills;
• Leadership and people management;
• Proactivity and flexibility.

Place of work: Nardò (LE)