Education:

- Bachelor's degree in business, management or related

- Master's degree desirable

Requirements:

- Experience of 6 years in the position or similar.

- Strong negotiation, communication and relationship building, problem solving and decision making skills.

- Project management and planning skills.

- Business English

Experience:

- Supplier management, contract management, procurement and supply chain management.

- Supplier management.

- Data analysis, metrics and trends.

- Use of tools to measure and improve supplier performance.

Responsibilities;

1. Develop effective partnerships with suppliers’ leadership to improve supplier capability through supplier assessments, clear and concise communication, feedback and training.
2. Create / Deploy / Implement a continuous supplier improvement strategy
3. Introduce suppliers to the STA process to assure corrective action in place to improve past behavior.
4. Facilitates the development plans for process control, capability and sustainability at the supplier.
5. Responsible for execution of the APQP Process with suppliers. Ensure all APQP elements are completed to high standards to achieve Flawless Launches.
6. Assists in identifying, communicating and resolving early-stage supplier quality problems.
7. Support serial production supplier problem resolution to assure effective corrective and systematic actions are implemented
8. Guides supplier through tough situations through involvement and plan management
9. Track total supplier DMN and Warning to assure target of reduction YOY
10. Work with new and existing suppliers to ensure quality system implementation and continuous improvement. Tracks the improvement and initiates countermeasures if progress does not meet expectations.
11. Coordinate prescribed assessments of potential new suppliers and provide a recommendation to the Quality and Purchasing group.
12. Play a key role in sourcing selection and the Sourcing Council Process. Ensure component level Technical Reviews are properly executed with potential suppliers.
13. Ensure proper approval and documentation practices are followed for any process, material or tooling change at suppliers.
14. Ensure suppliers provide thorough information to support development of new projects including PFMEAs, Process Control Plans, Process Capability Studies, Run@Rates and Safe Launch Planning.
15. Oversee current and future work-load. Ensure the necessary level of resources are available within the Department.
16. Develops and executes long-term progressive strategy to ensure the Supplier Quality function becomes increasingly proactive in addressing supplier performance issues.
17. Drive the development of new technologies to improve quality, efficiency and reduce cost.