Sr. Manager, Supplier Quality

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Job Summary

Responsible for leading and improving supplier quality performance across our divisional manufacturing sites. Establishes standardized processes, ensures compliance with customer and other requirements, and drives measurable improvements in supplier capability. Must work cross-functionally with supply chain/procurement, engineering, operations, quality, and others to ensure alignment through product lifecycles.

Job Description

Essential Duties/Responsibilities:

• Provide direct supervision of supplier quality and/or receiving inspection personnel for the division.
• Develop division-wide strategies, policies, and procedures related to supplier quality
• Act as key escalation point for all critical supplier quality issues.
• Lead supplier qualification, onboarding, monitoring, controlling, and risk assessment processes.
• Create plans for and execute supplier audit activities and strategies including assessments on selection for audits.
• Establish and manage key supplier performance metrics such as PPM, on-time delivery, corrective action effectiveness, and more.
• Lead performance review activities for suppliers with follow up actions as necessary.
• Manage supplier change control processes to ensure risk assessment and approval prior to implementation.
• Participate in cost-reduction initiatives with other groups as it relates to supplier changes.
• Lead, coach, and develop teams of supplier quality and receiving inspection personnel across all sites.
• Foster a culture of accountability, prevention, and continuous improvement within team and supplier base.
• Develop robust strategies for inspection plans of parts received from suppliers including inspection, quarantine, and following non-conforming processes when necessary.
• Travel up to 30% is required to support divisional efforts and business needs.

Experience/Skills:

• 7+ years’ experience in manufacturing with a minimum of 5 years in a Supplier Quality role.
• Minimum 3 years of people leadership experience
• ASQ or similar certification preferred
• Experience with ISO9001 or equivalent
• Experience auditing suppliers in a manufacturing environment
• Excellent written and verbal English communication skills required.
• Must be a US citizen due to government contract related work

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering or related field.

Additional Job Details

Management – M3
Organizational Impact
• Establishes tactical and operational plans with major impact on immediate or short-term results (e.g., less than 1 year) towards and significantly influences the achievement of results of the department and/or job family
• Develops new products, processes, standards or operational plans in support of the job family group and/or department strategy
• Responsible for revenue and/or expenditures in a specific area or for the team. Additional oversight and review provided by next level of people leadership
Communication & Influence
• Communicates with parties within and outside of own job family or department, which may include external clients or partners depending upon the family/department
• Requires ability to influence others to accept the department’s or job family group’s view/practices and agree/accept new concepts, practices, and approaches
• May require ability to communicate with senior leadership regarding matters of significant importance to the department
Innovation & Complexity
• Responsible for making moderate to significant improvements of processes, systems, or products to enhance performance of department and/or job family
• Problems and issues faced are numerous and undefined, and require detailed information gathering, analysis, and investigation to understand the problem
• Problems are difficult and moderately complex. Problems typically impact multiple teams. Problems are typically solved by drawing from deep prior experience and analysis of issues
Leadership & Talent Management
• Manages a large team typically comprising experienced professionals
• Responsible for creating workforce and staffing plans for area of responsibility to ensure availability of talent necessary to accomplish departmental business results
• Typically has hiring, firing, promotion, and reward authority within own area, in accordance with corporate guidelines
Knowledge & Experience
• Requires broad management knowledge to lead project teams in the department
• Typically has deep-level knowledge and skills within a specific technical or professional discipline with broad understanding of other areas within the job family group/business unit
• Typically requires a bachelor’s degree or equivalent professional certification and 7 years of prior relevant experience

Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action at Nidec
Nidec is an Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) and Affirmative Action Employer encouraging diversity in the workplace. All qualified applicants receive consideration for employment without regard to their age, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, genetic information, religious creed, national origin, physical or mental disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. For more information regarding your (EEO) rights as an applicant, please visit the following website: http://www1.eeoc.gov/employers/upload/eeoc_self_print_poster.pdf

Work Shift Schedule

First Shift (United States of America)

No Soliciting

Nidec will not accept unsolicited resumes from individual recruiters or third party recruiting agencies in response to Nidec job postings. No fee will be paid to third parties who submit unsolicited candidates directly to our hiring managers. Pre-approval from the Nidec Talent Acquisition team is required before any external candidate can be submitted and such candidate must be submitted to the Nidec Talent Acquisition team.