Established in 1981 with a single store in the Northwest of England, the JD Group is a leading omni-channel retailer of Sports Fashion, Outdoors and Gyms with over 60,000 colleagues and over 3,400 stores across several retail fascias in over 30 markets around the world.

JD Sports Fashion Plc was listed on the London Stock Exchange in 1996 and has been a FTSE100 publicly quoted company since 2019 and continues to grow in the UK and internationally.

We want to be the leading global omnichannel retailer in the sports and outdoor industry. To be a part of this successful company and help us to achieve this you will have the desire to ingrain our strategic goals of being a people-led, innovative and customer-focused organisation which provides operational excellence whilst identifying new areas of growth as part of our day to day objectives.

Key Duties/Responsibilities:

1. Measure and inspect garments & product for quality defects
2. Using AQL level and systems to create order reports
3. Comparing seal samples with PLM system information
4. Reporting, recording and analysing results on a weekly/monthly basis
5. Liaising and communicating issues with internal/ external departments daily
6. Arranging rectification and re-processing as required
7. Planning workloads based on daily intake
8. Organising Gold Seal samples and reports for next week /day’s orders
9. Review returns & factory AQL reports against stock intakes
10. Move and locate bulk warehouse stock for inspection using WMS systems
11. Maintain spreadsheets using Excel, create graphs and charts for reporting.
12. Ad-hoc reports and analysis for the team as required
13. Off-site product checks at store and third party
14. Requires periods of standing, moving cartons’ and working in an environment with a variety of fabrics and fibres

Skills/Experience/Knowledge needed:

15. Good organisational and communication skills
16. A keen eye for detail & fault finding
17. Computer literate
18. Numerical and analytical
19. Ability to work under pressure
20. Requires periods of standing, moving cartons’ and working in an environment with a variety of fabrics and fibres
21. Full driving licence required, some travel to head office, external companies and stores
22. Pattern cutting / design an advantage but not essential
23. Flat / overlock machinist an advantage but not essential
24. Previous QC/ QA or retail experience an advantage but not essential
25. Knowledge of WMS would be an advantage however not essential

Teamwork & deliverables – Year one

26. Developing communications and pro-actively communicate
27. Seek out opportunities to ‘learn on the job’

We know our employees work tirelessly to make JD Sports the success it is today and in turn, we offer them some amazing benefits:

28. Free parking
29. Incremental Holiday Allowance
30. Staff Discount On JD Group and other brands within the organisation
31. Pension Scheme
32. Personal development opportunities to learn and develop at work.