Merve Bekaroglu

Leads quality development for Women's Performance Bottoms, collaborating cross-functionally to uphold product integrity from concept through commercialization and align processes with lululemon's quality standards and strategic business objectives.

• Drives end-to-end quality risk assessments from concept through commercialization,collaborating across product-creation teams to deliver right-first-time outcomes and proactively prevent issues.
• Integrates guest feedback into commercialization risk assessments and guides mitigation strategies to reduce negative guest feedback and returns.
• Establishes and implements robust SOPs and guidelines to drive consistency and achieve product excellence,including:

- Physical On-Body Opacity Risk Assessment Process

- Women's Bottoms Thread Guide

• Spearheads the on-body opacity risk assessment process for the $1.1 Bn women's tight‑fitting bottoms category (2024), upholding product integrity and maintaining guest trust.
• Leads product-development testing, driving compliance with standards and guiding cross‑functional teams through issue resolution with structured, scalable solutions.
• Onboards and develops suppliers, guiding them through lululemon's quality processes to build trusted, long-term partnerships and ensure consistent quality.
• Partners with product-creation teams and suppliers to drive product quality, meet lululemon's standards and advance overall business objectives.
• Led Team Silicon within the Pulse Survey Action Team to launch lululemon's first Global Product Integrity Hackathon, facilitating collaboration to tackle challenges in processes, tools, and systems and foster continuous improvement.
• Mentors and supports a contract Quality Development Technician, guiding professional growth to align with team objectives and lululemon's strategic priorities.

Championed cross‑functional collaboration among product development, engineering, quality, production, and vendor teams to implement quality‑management systems, uphold brand standards, and deliver right‑first‑time product integrity.

• Spearheaded implementation of a tech-enabled solution to optimize quality inspection and reporting processes, delivering $500K in cost savings.
• Developed and implemented standard operating procedures and guidelines to standardize processes and maintain product excellence.
• Drove product risk assessments from design through bulk production to deliver right‑first‑time quality by proactively identifying and mitigating issues.
• Managed quality-assurance operations at the Canada Goose Cutting Hub,setting inspection standards, defining KPIs, and driving continuous improvement.
• Oversaw in‑line and end‑of‑line inspections at manufacturing and vendor sites, collaborating cross‑functionally to implement corrective and preventive actions and maintain product integrity.
• Coordinated finished‑goods AQL audits, compiled reports, and partnered cross‑functionally to resolve non‑conformities, ensuring compliance with quality standards.
• Implemented quality systems at the Canada Goose Montreal plant, training 15+ team members on standards and procedures and enabling consistent quality operations.
• Introduced and sustained a 5S system at the Canada Goose Montreal plant, leading audits to maintain organized workspaces and optimize operational efficiency.