Where a footwear quality manager can go next
5 destinations recorded, ranked by how much of the target role a footwear quality manager already meets. The closer to the top of Table 1, the less there is to learn.
Footwear quality managers implement, manage and promote the quality systems in the company, using adequate tools and methodologies based on national, international or company standards. They are in charge of establishing requirements and objectives, as well as preparing documents. They analyse complaints, and promote and coordinate corrective and preventive measures. They promote an effective internal and external communication and ensure the consumer's demands are met. They are responsible for the definition of instruments which monitor and control the quality systems, namely internal or external auditing, and they participate in the internal auditing.
Also known as footwear quality coordinator, footwear quality control manager, footwear quality executive, footwear quality assurance manager.
Managers 22 skills on file 5 career moves 5 above 60% overlap Closest: footwear quality controller, 80%
- 70% and above · short step
- 50 to 70% · real move
- Below 50% · substantial retraining
Table 1 · Within reach
- footwear quality controller 80% covered · difficulty 21.4
- footwear quality control laboratory technician 66% covered · difficulty 31.1
- footwear maintenance technician 64% covered · difficulty 38.2
- leather goods quality manager 64% covered · difficulty 36.2
- leather goods quality control laboratory technician 63% covered · difficulty 33.8
Table 2 · What the job itself asks for
A footwear quality manager needs 15 required skills and areas of knowledge. These 10 are the ones fewest other jobs share, so they say the most about the work.
- manage footwear quality systems management skills
- plan supply chain logistics for footwear and leather goods management skills
- apply footwear and leather goods quality control techniques information skills
- innovate in footwear and leather goods industry management skills
- communicate commercial and technical issues in foreign languages communication, collaboration and creativity
- footwear manufacturing technology engineering, manufacturing and construction
- footwear components engineering, manufacturing and construction
- footwear materials engineering, manufacturing and construction
- footwear quality engineering, manufacturing and construction
- health and safety in the workplace services
Table 3 · Jobs that lead here
The reverse view: occupations whose skills already cover much of what a footwear quality manager does. The figure is how much of this job each one brings.
- footwear production technician 79% covered · difficulty 22.3
- footwear quality controller 79% covered · difficulty 21.8
- footwear designer 67% covered · difficulty 34.1
- footwear product developer 67% covered · difficulty 34.1
- footwear quality control laboratory technician 65% covered · difficulty 34.8
- footwear CAD patternmaker 56% covered · difficulty 43.8
- footwear factory warehouse operator 48% covered · difficulty 50.7
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Footwear quality manager is filed under Managers, ISCO major group 1. The full index lists all ten groups.
How these figures were compiled
Overlap is how much of the target role is already part of a footwear quality manager’s work. It is directional: the figure for the reverse move differs. Every entry above opens the full comparison for that move: what carries over, what is missing, and where to start. The full method.