Quality Assurance and Compliance Manager

Growing ASX retailer with genuine career progression opportunities
- Flexible working arrangements / work from home 2 days a week
- New facility in Dandenong South including new testing lab.

**Join the family devoted to families.**

Family. It means everything to us. From our very first baby steps as a small Balwyn store in 1979, we've grown to become Australia's largest and best-loved baby retailer. Along the way, we've never lost sight of the fact that it's our team members that make Baby Bunting so special.

Every day, our diverse and dedicated store team members provide expert product knowledge to support mums, dads, grandparents and carers through the early years of parenthood. We’re passionate about creating better experiences every day - for our customers and each other.

**The benefits of joining us**:
Our culture nurtures a place where you can grow and thrive, be your authentic self and where inclusiveness and diversity really matters. We are a progressive industry leader and have a great sense of pride about what we do. We genuinely recognise and celebrate success and have a lot of fun along the way.

You will also be rewarded with benefits like these:

- We're accelerating our growth across Australia and New Zealand, which will create exciting personal development and career progression opportunities.
- Our Support Centre and National Distribution Centre is based in Dandenong South, featuring modern technology and facilities including a team member hub, onsite parking and an equipped product testing laboratory
- Paid parental leave
- Novated lease options available
- You’ll be joining a dynamic, friendly team where you’ll be challenged and supported to achieve personal and business goals.
- A work environment that is highly collaborative, inclusive, and progressive.

**Join our family in this role**:
Reporting to the Group Legal Counsel and working closely with our Merchandise team, the Quality Assurance & Compliance Manager** **is accountable for Baby Bunting’s product compliance and ethical sourcing.

As the head of our Product Compliance team, this critical role ensures that the nursery and baby goods products supplied by Baby Bunting are safe, of good quality and comply with all applicable mandatory and industry product standards.

This role also is responsible for ensuring Baby Bunting’s Ethical Sourcing Procedures are applied to our suppliers and supply chains.

**What you'll bring to the role**:

- Expertise in quality assurance and quality control processes, as well as ethical sourcing requirements.
- An excellent understanding of Australia’s product safety regulatory framework, including the Australian Consumer Law and mandatory and industry product standards (familiarity with nursery product standards preferable).
- An understanding of manufacturing and product processes, including product development processes.
- At least 10 years’ experience working in retail and/or manufacturing for retail products.
- Attention to detail and strong technical skills.
- Judgement and ability to assess risk and articulate reasons in support of decisions or approaches.
- Ability to work across different teams and with our suppliers and industry bodies.
- Ability to lead a team and determine priorities and manage execution of objectives.

**Our Culture**:
You’ll be joining a dynamic, friendly team where you’ll be challenged and supported to achieve personal and business goals. Expect a work environment that is highly collaborative, inclusive, and progressive.

Our Values - _Being Passionate. Being Considerate. Being Honest. Being Positive. Being Focused. Being Bold_

We believe our people and our values make the difference and set us apart in the industry.

**Ready to become family?**

We’d love to hear from you.

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**Please note;**
- Due to the intimate and personal nature of our work, successful applicants will need to undergo a National Police Criminal History check.