Supplier Quality Manager

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In this role you

Are responsible for overseeing supplier partners' high-quality performance by applying Advanced Product Quality Planning (APQP) in product industrialization, driving continuous quality improvement throughout the product lifecycle, ensuring regulatory compliance, and identifying improvement opportunities through CoNQ data analysis.

Your role:

• Manages technical capability assessments of potential new suppliers, ensuring their capabilities align with organizational standards, and manages the supplier selection.
• Supervises, monitors, and controls APQP (Advanced Product Quality Planning) plans as part of both the NPI and sustaining change processes, ensuring consistent quality throughout the product lifecycle. Manages talent across the team, while driving employee selection, performance management, compensation management, career development, and ensuring effective operational management.
• Fosters collaboration between R&D and suppliers through Design for Excellence (DfX) initiatives, promoting innovative designs that meet quality standards.
• Ensures Critical to Quality (CtQ) characteristics are effectively communicated to suppliers and incorporated into their processes, supporting consistent quality output. Oversees Part Submission Warrant (PSW) plans, deliverables, line releases, and completion, ensuring all parts meet specified quality requirements before production approval.
• Manages the quality relationship with key suppliers, negotiating Supplier Quality Agreements, conducting defect analyses to determine supplier responsibility, and serving as an independent reviewer for Supplier Corrective Action Requests (SCAR), while providing guidance and leadership in specific SQ functional areas such as APQP and SCAR. Initiates supplier improvement and development initiatives within the APQP framework, including supplier performance monitoring, quality risk assessment, and mitigation strategies, while supporting the development, execution, and maintenance of supplier audit schedules.

You're the right fit if:

• Bachelor's/ Master's Degree in Engineering Science, Supply Chain Management, Electrical Engineering, Electronic Engineering or equivalent.
• 8+ years of experience with Bachelor's in areas such as Quality Engineering, Safety Engineering, Process Engineering, Continuous Improvement Techniques or equivalent.
• We prefer 3+ years of Management experience with Supplier Quality Management, APQP (PPAP) and Process Validation, medical device regulations and standards, Supplier Evaluation Methodologies, Data Analysis, DFX Methodology. CAPA.
• You must be able to successfully perform the following minimum Physical, Cognitive and Environmental job requirements with or without accommodation for this Office/Remote position.

How we work together

We believe that we are better together than apart. For our office-based teams, this means working in-person at least 3 days per week. Onsite roles require full-time presence in the company’s facilities. Field roles are most effectively done outside of the company’s main facilities, generally at the customers’ or suppliers’ locations. This is an office role.

About Philips

We are a health technology company. We built our entire company around the belief that every human matters, and we won't stop until everybody everywhere has access to the quality healthcare that we all deserve. Do the work of your life to help improve the lives of others.

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Philips Transparency Details

The pay range for this position in Latham NY is $120,000 to $170,400 Annually. 

The actual base pay offered may vary within the posted ranges depending on multiple factors including job-related knowledge/skills, experience, business needs, geographical location, and internal equity.    

In addition, other compensation, such as an annual incentive bonus, sales commission or long-term incentives may be offered.  Employees are eligible to participate in our comprehensive Philips Total Rewards benefits program, which includes a generous PTO, 401k (up to 7% match), HSA (with company contribution), stock purchase plan, education reimbursement and much more.  Details about our benefits can be found here. 

At Philips, it is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the top end of the range for their role and compensation decisions are dependent upon the facts and circumstances of each case. 

Additional Information

US work authorization is a precondition of employment. The company will not consider candidates who require sponsorship for a work-authorized visa, now or in the future. 

Company relocation benefits will not be provided for this position.  For this position, you must reside in or within commuting distance to Latham NY.

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This requisition is expected to stay active for 45 days but may close earlier if a successful candidate is selected or business necessity dictates.  Interested candidates are encouraged to apply as soon as possible to ensure consideration.

Philips is an Equal Employment and Opportunity Employer including Disability/Vets and maintains a drug-free workplace.