Leather Quality Manager
Polène Paris
Required skills
About the role
Translated into English from French by Korum. The employer's original wording is on their site.
In a context of transformation, Polène is recruiting a Leather Quality Manager to ensure material quality across the entire chain, from the tanneries to the cutting workshops.
Within the Quality and Material Development department, you will be the key point of contact for leather quality: supporting the tanneries, the performance of the cutting workshops and the material industrialisation of new products.
The role involves very regular travel across Europe, to our partner tanners as well as to our cutting sites, in France and in Spain.
You will thrive in this role if you wish to:
Support the tanneries in our quality approach: monitoring existing processes and implementing new processes to support growth.
Secure quality controls and align acceptance criteria across the whole control chain, in the tannery as well as internally.
Train quality controllers and maintain quality over time, as volumes increase.
Manage the quality performance of the tanners: monitoring indicators and action plans.
Manage quality alerts through to the implementation of corrective and preventive actions (8D).
Maintain the leather quality framework: specifications, material operating plan, defect libraries and physical references.
Deploy and develop leather quality criteria for existing articles and new products, and set up cutting documents.
Manage leather and cutting performance in the workshop: setting up indicators, monitoring, challenge and action plans.
Ensure the link between tannery quality and cutting workshop quality, and support the skills development of external cutting sites by harmonising criteria and best practices.
Work with the development engineer on the material industrialisation phase: risk analysis, stakes of new products, and alignment of leather quality criteria with the House quality charter.
Manage quality alerts and crises: monitoring corrective actions and business continuity plans to avoid chain disruptions.
Support production start-up and handover to the teams: training teams in France and Spain, setting up cutting documents, and validating quality documents (technical sheet, specifications).
You will excel in this role if:
You are a material quality engineer, a leather specialist.
You have a minimum of 8 to 10 years' experience in tanning and/or leather goods.
You have strong technical knowledge of leather and a keen sensitivity to raw materials as well as finished products.
You know how to manage quality indicators, action plans and corrective approaches such as 8D.
You are comfortable with IT tools, in particular Excel.
You combine good interpersonal skills and rigour, and know how to bring along internal teams as well as suppliers.
You speak English and Spanish, which are essential for the very regular travel to be expected across Europe.
The Recruitment Process
Meeting with Talent Acquisition: discover the House, our values, and share your background and ambitions.
Interview with your future manager: explore the role, the missions and the challenges of the team in concrete terms.
Practical case: discuss a real case and share your working method.
Final interview with the Quality and Material Development Department: take a broader look at the House's quality and material vision and your development prospects at Polène.
By joining Polène, you will have the opportunity to:
Look ahead within a House with a unique company project and a very ambitious development plan across its entire value chain.
Work in a constantly improving environment where innovation and the pursuit of excellence are the watchwords.
Thrive in an environment where people are at the heart of the project and where the attention paid to employees is a real differentiating factor.
Joining Polène also means benefiting from a range of arrangements designed for you:
A 100% on-site employee experience, in our Paris offices in the heart of the 2nd arrondissement, rue du Louvre.
25 days of annual leave + 10.5 days of RTT (days off in lieu).
A ClassPass sport and wellbeing subscription.
Privileged access to the House's collections (private sales and preferential prices after one year of service).
Access to the People and Baby and Les Petits Chaperons Rouges nursery networks.
The Alan supplementary health insurance with a bespoke contract reserved for House employees, with the employer covering 60%.
The option of a sustainable mobility allowance of up to €40 per month, or a 50% reimbursement of the public transport pass.
Swile meal vouchers with a face value of €10 per day.
What you may not yet know about Polène:
Born in Paris in 2016, shaped in Ubrique, open to the whole world, Polène is much more than a leather goods House: it is a culture, a way of being and of creating. Each of our creations reflects this encounter between technical rigour and the poetry of forms.
Today, Polène brings together 1,500 employees, including 900 exceptional artisans based in Ubrique, Spain, and operates across 3 continents with an expansion objective of 7 openings a year.
Polène promotes an inclusive, ethical and equitable culture in all its recruitment. We welcome you as you are, with your talents, your energy and your desire to contribute.
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