Quality Manager - Shanghai

Clas Ohlson is passionate about simplifying life in every home. We strive to work a little smarter every day when we help customers with solutions that simplify everyday life.

We offer you room to grow and a fantastic corporate culture where we encourage you to be yourself. Clas Ohlson has helped customers for over 100 years, and with your help we will continue to simplify life for another 100 years.

About the role

To our production office in Shanghai, we are looking for you who want to be part of the team where we develop & source Clas Ohlson's products under our own brand to create a unique position in the market. As a quality manager at Clas Ohlson, you will work with a large product range in projects of varying sizes.

You work closely with all functions in our Shanghai production office as well the Quality Compliance team in Sweden.

Ensuring the safety and quality of Clas Ohlson products. Lead and develop the quality department. Develop business and people together with the Clas Ohlson Company and Customer in mind.

Essential Job Functions and Accountabilities

- Ensure product function, safety, and legal requirements for all the sourced products are fulfilled, and ensure they are following our sustainability framework, by ensuring right methods and ways of working are in place
- Responsible to lead and develop the quality and compliance agenda and team of Product engineers, Supplier developers, Auditors and QC
- Develop business and people together, secure learning in the business and encourage entrepreneurial behaviors, be responsible for recruitment, competence development and introduction of new employees
- Constantly monitor Customer feedback and quality performance on product, supplier, and processes. Define, Create, and Implement solutions and ways of working for improved quality and reduced Cost of Poor Quality. Identify root causes for claims and quality problems, to implement corrective and preventive actions
- Support sourcing team in solving specific challenges and overcoming project roadblocks when necessary, so that agreed goals and objectives are met.


Who are you?

You are a head of quality team. To succeed in the role, it is important that you have strong leadership to mentor and coach your team to grow the team competences. You are good at communication to create relationships with internal stakeholders across multiple functions (in Sourcing, Product development, CSR and Head office, etc.). Meanwhile, you shall dare to challenge the status quo and not afraid of failure. You have previous years of experience working as a Quality Manager or equivalent role in an EU/Nordic company.

You hold university degree certification in quality management or equivalent competence and have:

- 3-5 years leadership experience in a management position (preferable sourcing office or manufacturing)
- Proven management and leadership skills
- At least 5 years’ experience in quality/compliance (experience in sustainability is a plus)


And you have good knowledge in:

- Industrial production process
- EU product legislation
- TQM, Lean, 6 Sigma, etc.
- Products (Home, DIY, Leisure, Electrical, and Multimedia) for EU/Nordic market


Fluent in English communication, both written and spoken.

Location: Shanghai, China

Do we suit you?

It is the core of our culture and it puts into words how we want to treat each other and our customers. At Clas Ohlson, everyone should feel welcome and noticed. We also believe in diversity and that our employees' different backgrounds, personalities, experience, and skills are the path to success. Together with you, we want to simplify everyday life for all our customers!

Contact and Application

If you have questions regarding the ongoing recruitment process or the specific position in question, you are warmly welcome to contact us at irene.chen@clasohlson.com.

Applications for this position has to be written in English!

Welcome with your application! Applications are processed on an ongoing basis