Supplier Quality Manager
Rehlko · Kohler, WI · Yesterday
Full-time
About the role
This is a hybrid role based in Kohler, Wisconsin or Hattiesburg, MS, requiring on-site work 3 days per week.
Responsibilities
- Provide leadership, guidance, and mentoring to the Supplier Quality Team, thus enabling their continuous technical and career development.
- Ensure robust evaluation is performed to verify suppliers are qualified before selected for new business.
- Develop and implement actions to address poor performing suppliers.
- Develop the SQ team’s commodity knowledge to an expert level.
- Provide cooperative relationship for supplier quality teams in the US, Italy, China, and India, to align domestic management of suppliers.
- Partner SQ team with Procurement team to develop and implement commodity strategies to support business needs.
- Independently identify opportunities and give strategic direction to the cross-functional NPD teams based on the core goals of the business.
- Manage and continually improve Supplier Development change management standards of work.
- Lead the problem solving of complex issues.
- Leverage own strong technical knowledge in the successful launch of suppliers’ new manufacturing processes.
- Apply manufacturing expertise during the design process.