Premium Footwear Sourcing & Quality Technologist

KURT GEIGER; Greater London; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 42,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension and life assurance

Enviable discounts

Gym Discounts

Summer Hours - 3pm Friday finish

Half Day, Pay Day Friday

RetailTrust support

Job summary

Kurt Geiger, a leading premium footwear and accessories retailer, seeks a Sourcing Support professional to assist the Sourcing Team with data on supplier quality, material testing, and leather sourcing. You will help ensure compliance, coordinate schedules with Asia, and support negotiations and production planning.

The role requires experience in footwear sourcing, strong communication, and meticulous data handling.

Qualifications

• Experience in footwear production or sourcing.
• Able to meet tight deadlines.
• Strong communicator.
• Knowledge of leather.
• Experience in women's premium fashion footwear.

Responsibilities

• Support the Sourcing Team by maintaining supplier quality records and ensuring that records are updated.
• Facilitate raw material and sample testing and communicate results to internal stakeholders.
• Collate data on leather sourcing and volumes for the Leather Working Group.
• Ensure compliance documentation is followed and records kept.
• Coordinate shipment schedules with Head of Sourcing and Asia factories.
• Follow up with UK, Europe and US DCs on samples and issues.
• Support cost negotiations and work with brand partners to ensure prices and margins.
• Collaborate with UK and Asia Supply Chain teams on production schedules and material approvals.
• Send samples for testing and follow up on quality issues.
• Build cross-functional relationships to communicate supply chain issues.
• Carry out regular store visits to report on quality standards.
• Product data input on required systems and complete seasonal product reports.
• Support other departments when needed.
• Travel with Buyer/Designer to suppliers as necessary.
• Liaise with DC QC to ensure inspections.
• Investigate quality issues and report findings to QA Technical manager.
• Ensure traceability of confirmation samples into the warehouse and oversight of DC inspection process.
• Ensure damaged goods and costs are recharged correctly.
• Ensure compliance documentation is accessible to prevent shipping delays.

Skills

Footwear fitting

Footwear production

Deadline-driven

Strong communicator

Women’s premium fashion footwear

Leather knowledge

Microsoft Word

Microsoft Excel

PowerPoint

Tools

Microsoft Word

Microsoft Excel

PowerPoint

Job description

Kurt Geiger, a leading premium footwear and accessories retailer, seeks a Sourcing Support professional to assist the Sourcing Team with data on supplier quality, material testing, and leather sourcing. You will help ensure compliance, coordinate schedules with Asia, and support negotiations and production planning.

The role requires experience in footwear sourcing, strong communication, and meticulous data handling.