Vendor Quality Manager - GCP

Position Summary

For more than 40 years, GC Packaging (the "Company") has been an innovator in the card manufacturing industry. We offer our clients a comprehensive mix of special effects finishing, collating, and packaging techniques to make even the most challenging of projects come to life.

The Manager of Quality Assurance ensures that all products are manufactured to the highest standards of quality, integrity, and timeliness. This position interfaces with a range of internal product development teams and the breadth of our external supply chain. 

 

General Duties and Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain strong relationships with current and any potential vendors to understand and overcome supply chain pain points and keep product releases on schedule.
• Works cross functionally to manage on-site and in-process quality assurance checks for all WIP and finished goods across supply chain. 
• Works with operators, supervisors and line leads in effort to meet the high-quality standards for each specific operation.
• Audit vendors and second party processes to ensure they meet internal requirements and regulatory standards. 
• Attend product walkthroughs and BOM (Bill of Material) reviews, evaluate risks and inefficiencies, and communicates with the product development team to drive cost and time savings.
• Liaison with project management team to ensure manufacturing and finishing processes are on-schedule and support product release dates.
• Collaborate with the Fanatics Collectibles team to understand challenges and pain points in the supply chain and develop and execute plans to address ongoing issues and concerns with suppliers.
• Manage direct reports and their activities. This includes training and development; analyzing and resolving work problems; and discipline.
• Coordinate the build out revised SOPs & Quality Control processes in partnership with vendors and internal SMEs
• Support the building of QC reporting & analytics

 

Education, Experience and Requirements

• Bachelor's degree 
• 8+ Years of Work Experience in a QA Supervisory role preferably in highly configurable, high mix/low volume product manufacturing, consumer-packaged goods, and/or contract manufacturing. 
• Sports Trading Card experience a plus
• 3+ Years of experience leading teams
• Bilingual / Spanish speaking a plus

 

Job Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Strong attention to detail
• Strong entrepreneurial spirit
• Strong leadership skills
• Ability to work in a fast paced, complex manufacturing environment

Fanatics is building a leading global digital sports platform. The company ignites the passions of global sports fans and maximizes the presence and reach for hundreds of sports partners globally by offering innovative products and services across Fanatics Commerce, Fanatics Collectibles, and Fanatics Betting & Gaming, allowing sports fans to Buy, Collect and Bet. Through the Fanatics platform, sports fans can buy licensed fan gear, jerseys, lifestyle and streetwear products, headwear, and hardgoods; collect physical and digital trading cards, sports memorabilia, and other digital assets; and bet as the company builds its Sportsbook and iGaming platform. Fanatics has an established database of over 100 million global sports fans, a global partner network with over 900 sports properties, including major national and international professional sports leagues, teams, players associations, athletes, celebrities, colleges, and college conferences, and over 2,000 retail locations, including its Lids retail business stores.  
As a market leader with more than 18,000 employees, and hundreds of partners, suppliers, and vendors worldwide, we take responsibility for driving toward more ethical and sustainable practices. We are committed to building an inclusive Fanatics community, reflecting and representing society at every level of the business, including our employees, vendors, partners and fans. Fanatics is also dedicated to making a positive impact in the communities where we all live, work, and play through strategic philanthropic initiatives.