Supplier Quality Manager Job in Eindhoven, Netherlands

Royal Philips Electronics of the Netherlands is a diversified Health and Well-being company, focused on improving people’s lives through timely innovations.

As a world leader in healthcare, lifestyle and lighting, Philips integrates technologies and design into people-centric solutions.

Supplier Quality Manager Job Description

Your challenge
As Supplier Quality Manager you:

• Contribute to sourcing decisions, development and deployment of Supplier Quality Strategies that are aligned with Supply Management and Business Strategies, and so will cover both supplier quality tasks in innovation and lifecycle with a 1-3 years time horizon.
• Manage top level executive relationships with suppliers: interface with the suppliers JQM (Joint Quality Manager)
• Identify gaps between required and available supplier capability and by monitoring manage the risk with the supplier. Drive supplier quality improvement plan. Establish quality/process control for high risk parts and high risk suppliers
• Lead and conclude negotiations of Quality Agreements with suppliers and deploy the Philips Management Agenda to the supplier
• Identify, evaluate, recommend, deploy and execute quality tools to suppliers such as APQP, and Supplier Quality Development (SQD)
• Develop and deploy processes and tools to ensure, monitor and manage supplier quality such as supplier performance measurement, supplier assessment, supplier audits , PPAP and continuous improvement.

• Contribute to development and deployment of Supplier Quality Strategies that are aligned with Supply Management and Business Strategies with a 1-3 years time horizon
• Contribute to sourcing decisions identifying required supplier capability based upon the outsourcing level to ensure that parts received meet requirements from a Quality perspective.
• Lead and conclude negotiations of Quality Agreements with suppliers and deploy the Philips Management Agenda to the supplier
• Identify gaps between required and available supplier capability and manage the risk with the supplier. Drive supplier quality improvement plan. Establish quality/process control for high risk parts and high risk suppliers
• Identify high risk and critical to quality suppliers and establish quality control approaches with relevant suppliers assuring quality throughout the product life cycle
• Lead and monitor supplier Quality, identify structurally non-performing suppliers and manage continuous improvement plans in co-ordination with (G) SAM. This includes vendor account analytics such as ranking, rating, relationship management Drive 1st and 2nd tier supplier improvements
• Own and approve  the industrial product release of purchased parts and finished goods during projects and lifecycle
• Plan and lead  supplier audits, assessments and supplier performance monitoring

• Within the BG coffee supplier quality team you will manage a selected group of suppliers that are key to our business, the selected group of international suppliers consist out of strategic or pre-scribed suppliers. Managing those suppliers properly, you will be able to demonstrate your personal skills to in the end contribute to the business goals in which quality is defined to be a key enabler for future growth.
• Together with your colleagues that do cover a same role, you manage all key suppliers by executing on a annual program that is derived from the business strategies. You will report into the global supplier quality manager. The supplier quality department covers a mainstream innovation cluster being the business group coffee category beverage appliances.

• Supplier scouting and selection
• Project management during the innovation process conducting APQP
• Supplier performance monitoring and supplier development during the lifecycle phase
• Teamwork and leadership skills, covering both the internal organisation and the interaction with suppliers, are key to reach our ambitious goals.

Supplier Quality Manager Job Requirements

Our Offer
We welcome you to a challenging, innovative environment with great opportunities for you to explore. Our benefits are very competitive and designed around your preferences:

• Depending on experience, a year salary (fulltime) between € 45.000 and € 60.000 (including personal benefits package)
• 25 Days of leave and the possibility to purchase up to 20 extra days off annually
• A variable bonus based on both Philips results and personal performance
• Extensive set of tools to drive your career, such as a personal development budget, free training and coaching
• Solid company pension scheme (employee contribution fee 0%), and attractive collective health insurance package
• Opportunity to buy Philips shares and products with discount
• Healthy work-life balance

• Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering with 5 years of relevant experience
• Good understanding of statistical methods, quality tools and methodologies QFD, CtQ breakdown, DfSS, SPC, AQP, FMEA, Control Plan)
• Six Sigma GB/ BB certification preferred
• Highly motivated, action oriented, persistent towards accomplishing tasks and drives for success and a sense of urgency
• Ability to communicate well, oral and written, in English and local language
• Fosters good cross functional communications and integrates the work of managers to achieve business objectives
• Is capable of understanding global approach and align locally
• Is accurate and delivers quality work
• Auditing Skills preferred to possess Lead Auditor certification
• Possesses such expertise in quality systems, methodologies, tool and techniques that he/she is able to establish standards and practices for
• Works in a team to optimize, implement and troubleshoot the performance of quality control systems
• Creates a productive network with internal customers and suppliers

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