Head of Supplier Collaboration & Quality (SC&Q) Northeast Asia
Location: Linkou or Tainan, Taiwan
Sector: Strategic Sourcing & Procurement (SS&P)
Travel: Up to ~20%, including domestic and international travels
Introduction to the Job
ASML’s ability to industrialize highly complex systems at scale depends on a resilient, high-performing, and structurally capable global supply base. Within Strategic Sourcing & Procurement (SS&P), Supplier Collaboration & Quality (SC&Q) plays a critical role in ensuring supplier capability, performance, and lifecycle execution across all business lines.
This role represents the senior leadership of SS&P SC&Q across Northeast Asia, responsible for translating global SS&P SC&Q strategy into regional priorities and execution, building a high-performing organization, and ensuring consistent delivery of supplier performance, industrialization readiness, and lifecycle excellence across the region.
This role direct reports to Head of SS&P Northeast Asia, functional reports to Head of SS&P SC&Q, and is a member of the SC&Q global management team and meeting.”
Job Mission
Lead and operationalize Supplier Collaboration & Quality (SC&Q) teams in Northeast Asia by translating ASML supply chain strategy into robust supplier performance systems, industrialization readiness, and lifecycle execution discipline, delivering measurable QLTCS improvements through structured governance, standardized ways of working, and high-performing teams.
Role & Responsibilities
Leadership & Organization
Lead SC&Q teams in Northeast Asia, including Supplier Quality Engineering (SQE), Product Lifecycle Management (PLM), Configuration Management (CM), Master Data Management (MDM), Transfer and Make to Buy Program, Supplier Audits, Quality & Logistics Means & Methods, Cost Engineering and Cost of Goods (CoG) Program.
Act as a staff member of SS&P S&CQ, represent SC&Q teams in Northeast Asia, to increase global collaboration and teamwork
Foster a culture of ownership, accountability, continuous improvement, and global collaboration by role modeling ASML’s core values of Challenge, Collaborate, and Care.
Drive employee engagement, capability, talent and leadership development, succession planning, and performance management.
Translate global SS&P SC&Q and BL strategies into regional priorities, execution roadmaps, performance targets, dashboards and review rhythms
Industrialization & Lifecycle Execution
Ensure supplier readiness across ASML product lifecycle—from New Product Introduction (NPI), High Volume Manufacturing (HVM), through Installed Base & Sustaining (IB&S) and End of Life (EOL)
Secure readiness and quality of Bills of Materials (BOMs), technical documentation, configuration baselines, and supplier readiness.
Transfer & M2B
Lead supplier transfer projects, factory transfer to supplier projects, and supplier phase out / phase in plan
Lead milestone-based governance, risk tracking, and project management
Quality & Logistics Means & Methods
Deploy standardized processes, performance dashboards, drive continuous improvement, leverage and roll-out worldwide best known method to increase operations efficiency year over year
Cost Engineering & Cost of Goods Projects
Drive CoG reduction and cost engineering initiatives, with cluster leads, to achieve the Cost of Goods target agreed with Business Lines
Education
Bachelor or Master’s degree in Engineering, Supply Chain, Industrial Engineering, Operations, or related field
Experience
15+ years in sourcing, supply chain or manufacturing, in global matrix organizations
10+ year in leading (at least two of following teams): product lifecycle management, configuration management, master data management, supply chain industrialization, supplier quality, and / or supplier account management
Leadership of multi-site, multi-functional teams
Solid track record of being leader of leaders, building high-performing teams, delivering solid operations results
Skills & Competencies
Proven people, operations and business leadership, with successful track record of leading and transforming supply chain organization in global matrix setting.
Role‑model leadership behaviors aligned with ASML values (Challenge, Collaborate, Care).
Strong stakeholder management and communication skills at both operational and executive levels.
Strategic thinking with strong execution discipline.
Structured, fact‑based problem solving combined with pragmatic execution.
Excellent English (mandatory); Mandarin (optional).
ASML is an Equal Opportunity Employer that values and respects the importance of a diverse and inclusive workforce. It is the policy of the company to recruit, hire, train and promote persons in all job titles without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, or gender identity. We recognize that inclusion and diversity is a driving force in the success of our company.
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Skills Required
- Bachelor's or master's degree in engineering, supply chain, industrial engineering, operations, or a related field
- 15+ years of experience in sourcing, supply chain, or manufacturing
- Experience working in global matrix organizations
- 10+ years leading at least two relevant teams, including product lifecycle management, configuration management, master data management, supply chain industrialization, supplier quality, or supplier account management
- Experience leading multi-site, multifunctional teams
- Track record as a leader of leaders, building high-performing teams and delivering operational results
- Excellent English communication skills
- Mandarin language skills
ASML Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about ASML and has not been reviewed or approved by ASML.
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Healthcare Strength — Health coverage is broad and employer‑funded to a significant degree, with multiple plan options plus mental health and wellness resources. Complementary offerings like onsite/virtual care, HSA contributions, and a gym subsidy strengthen the overall medical package.
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Parental & Family Support — Family‑forming benefits include paid parental leave, adoption assistance, IVF coverage, and practical supports like lactation rooms and milk‑shipment for travel. These provisions indicate substantial caregiving support across life stages.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Paid time off can reach a high ceiling when combining vacation and company holidays, with accruals increasing by tenure. Flexible workplace policies and a vacation sell‑back option add usability to the time‑off program.
ASML Insights
What We Do
ASML is a high-tech company, headquartered in the Netherlands. We manufacture the complex lithography machines that chipmakers use to produce integrated circuits, or computer chips. Over 30 years, we have grown from a small startup into a multinational company with over 60 locations across Europe, Asia and the US. Behind ASML’s innovations are engineers who think ahead. The people who work at our company include some of the most creative minds in physics, electrical engineering, mathematics, chemistry, mechatronics, optics, mechanical engineering, computer science and software engineering. Because ASML spends more than €2 billion per year on R&D, our teams have the freedom, support and resources to experiment, test and push the boundaries of technology. They work in close-knit, multidisciplinary teams, listening to and learning from each other.
