Founded in 1910, KONE is a global leader that provides elevators, escalators and automatic building doors, as well as solutions for maintenance and modernization that add value to buildings throughout their life cycle. Our mission is to improve the flow of urban life and make our world’s cities better places to live by providing innovative solutions that help make people’s journeys safe, convenient and reliable. Our operations in over 60 countries around the world has helped us achieve our position as an innovation and sustainability leader with repeated recognitions by Forbes, Corporate Knights for clean capitalism and others.
- Do you hold a Bachelor's or Master's degree (or equivalent experience) in Engineering, Quality Management, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, or a related field?
- Do you have experience managing supplier quality activities and driving continuous improvement initiatives within a manufacturing environment?
- Are you familiar with supplier qualification, supplier audits, quality assurance processes, and supplier development methodologies?
- Do you have experience conducting supplier assessments, gap analyses, pre-audits, and process evaluations to ensure compliance with quality requirements?
- Are you knowledgeable in quality tools and methodologies such as FMEA, Control Plans, Root Cause Analysis, and corrective action management?
- Can you effectively collaborate with sourcing, engineering, manufacturing, and cross-functional teams to ensure product, process, technical, and business requirements are met?
- Do you have experience monitoring supplier performance using key quality metrics and driving improvement actions when targets are not achieved?
- Are you comfortable participating in supplier negotiations and ensuring quality commitments are reflected in supplier agreements and quality annexes?
- Do you have a strong understanding of quality, safety, environmental, and compliance standards within a global manufacturing organization?
- Are you capable of leading supplier development activities, managing quality risks, and ensuring sustainable improvements throughout the supplier network?
- Do you possess strong analytical, communication, and stakeholder management skills that enable you to influence suppliers and internal partners alike?
- Are you motivated to contribute to a culture of operational excellence and support KONE's Supplier Excellence Program objectives?
As our Supplier Quality Manager, you will play a key role in ensuring the quality, reliability, and continuous improvement of KONE's supplier network. Working closely with sourcing, engineering, and manufacturing teams, you will support supplier selection activities by ensuring that product, process, technical, and business requirements are clearly defined and effectively implemented.
You will lead supplier qualification processes, conduct supplier assessments and audits, evaluate process risks through tools such as FMEA, and establish appropriate supplier quality control plans. In addition, you will monitor supplier quality performance, validate key performance measurements, and drive corrective and preventive actions to ensure sustainable improvements.
As a trusted quality partner, you will help maintain supplier agreements and quality documentation in line with KONE requirements while ensuring compliance with sourcing policies, quality standards, environmental regulations, and safety requirements. Through active supplier development, you will contribute to achieving Supplier Excellence Program objectives and strengthening long-term supplier capabilities.
You will drive strategic quality improvement and change management projects, creating and executing plans that support business transformation and supplier performance objectives.
We value your authentic self
Diversity, equity and inclusion is embedded in our strategy and values
Collaborative, creative and supportive work environment
Passionate about safety, quality and innovation
We care about the communities where we live and work
Just some of our many benefits include:
Competitive salary
Opportunities to learn and grow
Comprehensive health and wellness plans for the entire family
More benefits than required by law
Come share your passion and energy to make a positive impact at KONE for our customers and your career!
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We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and do not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, sex, age, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, status as a veteran, and basis of disability or any other federal, state or local protected class.
At KONE, we are focused on creating an innovative and collaborative working culture where we value the contribution of each individual. Employee engagement is a key focus area for us and we encourage participation and the sharing of information and ideas. Sustainability is an integral part of our culture and the daily practice. We follow ethical business practices and we seek to develop a culture of working together where co-workers trust and respect each other and good performance is recognized. In being a great place to work, we are proud to offer a range of experiences and opportunities that will help you to achieve your career and personal goals and enable you to live a healthy and balanced life.
Read more on https://careers.kone.com/en/
Skills Required
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Engineering, Quality Management, Manufacturing, Supply Chain or equivalent experience
- Experience managing supplier quality activities and driving continuous improvement in a manufacturing environment
- Experience with supplier qualification, supplier audits, and supplier development methodologies
- Experience conducting supplier assessments, gap analyses, pre-audits, and process evaluations
- Knowledge and application of quality tools: FMEA, Control Plans, Root Cause Analysis, CAPA
- Ability to collaborate effectively with sourcing, engineering, manufacturing, and cross-functional teams
- Experience monitoring supplier performance using key quality metrics and driving improvement actions
- Experience participating in supplier negotiations and ensuring quality commitments in agreements/annexes
- Strong understanding of quality, safety, environmental, and compliance standards in a global manufacturing organization
- Capability to lead supplier development, manage quality risks, and ensure sustainable improvements
- Strong analytical, communication, and stakeholder management skills
Kone Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Kone and has not been reviewed or approved by Kone.
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Fair & Transparent Compensation — Pay is considered competitive across many roles and markets, with field positions sometimes benefiting from overtime and strong union scales. Feedback suggests base compensation is often a relative positive even when other factors vary.
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Retirement Support — Retirement programs, including 401(k) and in some regions pension or annuity structures, are consistently highlighted as strong. Feedback suggests these elements meaningfully enhance the overall package.
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Healthcare Strength — Core health coverage is viewed as comprehensive, commonly including medical, dental, and vision options. Feedback suggests a global well‑being framework and EAP resources further reinforce health-related support.
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What We Do
At KONE, our mission is to improve the flow of urban life. This means understanding urbanization and, together with our partners and customers, helping cities to become better and more sustainable places to live. As a global leader in the elevator and escalator industry, KONE provides elevators, escalators and automatic building doors, as well as solutions for maintenance and modernization to add value to buildings throughout their life cycle. Through more effective People Flow®, we make people's journeys safe, convenient and reliable, in taller, smarter buildings. Headquartered in Helsinki, Finland, we operate in more than 60 countries around the world, employ over 60,000 people and serve 550,000 customers. In 2022, KONE had annual sales of EUR 10.9 billion. KONE class B shares are listed on the Nasdaq Helsinki Ltd. in Finland.
