Role OverviewThe Director of Supplier Quality will be accountable for developing, maintaining, and optimizing Supplier Quality assurance strategy, reducing supplier quality risks, and ensuring conforming products from the supply base.
What You Will Do
Key responsibilities include developing a proactive Supplier Quality program, measuring and maintaining supplier quality metrics, partnering with the Supplier Chain function, investigating and resolving supplier quality problems, and engaging in supply chain discussions.
Why It Might Be a Fit
The successful candidate will be a self-starting leader who can effectively partner with multiple functional organizations, internally, and suppliers, externally for success.
Requirements
- Develop, communicate and drive a proactive Supplier Quality program for the business
- Measure, maintain, analyze and communicate all Supplier Quality metrics, risks, and planned actions
- Partner with the Supplier Chain function to enforce contract/purchase order requirements
- Investigate, evaluate, and resolve supplier quality problems
- Responsible for developing a collaborative environment with suppliers, engineering, program quality, supplier chain, and operation leaders
- Engage/lead in all supply chain discussions to ensure proper selection of sourcing
- Partner with the sector Supplier Quality team to engage key supplier’s management in a business review process
- Manages and develops a high performing team of Supplier Quality Engineers
- Owns and manages the Supplier Quality budget
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