Senior Quality Auditor (Jewelry)

Since its launch in 1993 with a collection of six essential handbags, Kate Spade New York has always stood for optimistic femininity. Today, the brand is a global life and style house with handbags, ready-to-wear, jewelry, footwear, gifts, home dcor and more. Polished ease, thoughtful details and a modern, sophisticated use of colorKate Spade New York's founding principles define a unique style synonymous with joy. Under the vision of creative director Nicola Glass, the brand continues to celebrate confident women with a youthful spirit.

Kate Spade New York is part of the Tapestry portfolio a global house of brands powered by optimism, innovation, and inclusivity.

Primary Purpose:

The Senior Quality Auditor Jewelry is responsible for executing quality audits and inspections across the jewelry production process, ensuring adherence to brand standards and regulatory requirements. This role supports the quality management system through detailed assessments, documentation, and collaboration with cross-functional teams to drive product excellence and supplier accountability.

Key Responsibilities:

- Conduct through inspections of fashion jewelry at supplier sites, including raw materials, in process production, and finished goods.

- Partner closely with vendors to implement corrective and preventive actions, ensuring compliance with brand and customer quality standards.

- Review pre-production samples and bulk production for alignment with approved specifications.

- Document inspection results, non-conformance reports, and follow-up actions with clarity and accuracy, within set timelines.

- Analyze findings to identify trends and support continuous improvement initiatives.

- Assist in supplier performance evaluations and contribute to improvement plans.

- Provide technical training to vendor teams on quality standards, testing protocols, and best practices.

- Support product development and engineering teams in evaluating new materials and construction methods.

- Coordinate with logistics and production teams to ensure quality standards are met prior to final shipment.

Qualifications:

- bachelor's degree in quality management, Engineering, or a related field.

- Minimum 35 years of experience in jewelry quality assurance, auditing, or manufacturing.

- Familiarity with RJC (Responsible Jewelry Council) compliance, ISO 9001, and AQL standards.

- Strong understanding of jewelry manufacturing processes and materials.

- Proficiency in English and Thai language. Chinese is a plus.

- High attention to detail, with strong analytical and problem-solving abilities.

Preferred Certifications:

- Certified Quality Auditor (CQA) ASQ

- RJC compliance experience or certification

Core Competencies:

- Execution Excellence: Delivers high-quality audits with precision and consistency.

- Analytical Thinking: Identifies root causes and recommends effective solutions.

- Team Collaboration: Works effectively with internal teams and external partners.

- Adaptability: Responds to changing priorities and production challenges with resilience.

- Quality Advocacy: Champions best practices and continuous improvement in product quality.

Our Competencies for All Employees

• Drive for Results: Can be counted on to exceed goals successfully; is constantly and consistently one of the top performers; very bottom-line oriented; steadfastly pushes self and others for results.
• Customer Focus: Is dedicated to meeting the expectations and requirements of internal and external customers; gets first-hand customer information and uses it for improvements in products and services; acts with customers in mind; establishes and maintains effective relationships with customers and gains their trust and respect.
• Creativity: Comes up with a lot of new and unique ideas; easily makes connections among previously unrelated notions; tends to be seen as original and value-added in brainstorming settings.
• Interpersonal Savvy: Relates well to all kinds of people, up, down, and sideways, inside and outside the organization; builds appropriate rapport; builds constructive and effective relationships; uses diplomacy and tact; can diffuse even high-tension situations comfortably.
• Learning on the Fly: Learns quickly when facing new problems; a relentless and versatile learner; open to change; analyzes both successes and failures for clues to improvement; experiments and will try anything to find solutions; enjoys the challenge of unfamiliar tasks; quickly grasps the essence and the underlying structure of anything.
• Perseverance: Pursues everything with energy, drive, and a need to finish; seldom gives up before finishing, especially in the face of resistance or setbacks.
• Dealing with Ambiguity: Can effectively cope with change; can shift gears comfortably; can decide and act without having the total picture; isn't upset when things are up in the air; doesn't have to finish things before moving on; can comfortably handle risk and uncertainty.

Our Competencies for All People Managers

• Strategic Agility: Sees ahead clearly; can anticipate future consequences and trends accurately; has broad knowledge and perspective; is future oriented; can articulately paint credible pictures and visions of possibilities and likelihoods; can create competitive and breakthrough strategies and plans.
• Building Effective Teams: Blends people into teams when needed; creates strong morale
• and spirit in his/her team; shares wins and successes; fosters open dialogue; lets people finish and be responsible for their work; defines success in terms of the whole team; creates a feeling of belonging in the team.
• Managerial Courage: Doesn't hold back anything that needs to be said; provides current, direct, complete, and actionable positive and corrective feedback to others; lets people know where they stand; faces up to people problems on any person or situation (not including direct reports) quickly and directly; is not afraid to take negative action when necessary.

Kate Spade is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer and we pride ourselves on hiring and developing the best people. All employment decisions (including recruitment, hiring, promotion, compensation, transfer, training, discipline and termination) are based on the applicant's or employee's qualifications as they relate to the requirements of the position under consideration. These decisions are made without regard to age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic characteristics, race, color, creed, religion, ethnicity, national origin, alienage, citizenship, disability, marital status, military status, pregnancy, or any other legally-recognized protected basis prohibited by applicable law. Visit Kate Spade at www.katespade.com.