Manager global Supplier Quality (m/f/d)

Manager global Supplier Quality (m/f/d)

Heraeus Electronics

Location Hanau

Permanent

Full Time

About Heraeus

Making displays foldable? Helping hearts beat with medical innovations? Or breathing new life into precious metals? As a family-owned global technology group we help our customers to always being one step ahead. Whether production, research, sales or administration - we love being the invisible force behind innovation. We deliver world-class quality in the areas of Metals & Recycling, Healthcare, Semiconductor & Electronics and Industrials. As one of the top 10 family-owned companies in Germany, we employ around 16,400 employees in 40 countries. 

The following challenges await you:

• Managing a Global Team: You lead, coach, and develop supplier quality and supplier development engineers. You foster a collaborative, data-driven, and results-focused culture.
• Driving Supplier Performance: You establish, monitor, and improve supplier KPIs such as PPM, audit scores, and delivery quality.
• Leading Supplier Development Initiatives: You conduct proactive supplier capability assessments, identify gaps, and implement improvement roadmaps.
• Overseeing Audits & Assessments: You manage the global supplier audit program, including initial qualifications, periodic audits, and escalations for critical suppliers.
• Ensuring APQP Excellence: You ensure effective supplier participation in Advanced Product Quality Planning (APQP) and flawless PPAP submissions during product launches, engineering changes, and transfers.
• Resolving Problems & Managing Escalations: You lead critical issue resolution, perform robust root cause analyses, and implement sustainable corrective actions. You ensure global deployment of lessons learned.
• Collaborating Cross-Functionally: You work closely with procurement, engineering, manufacturing, and customer quality teams to align supplier strategies and solve issues collaboratively.
• Building Strategic Supplier Partnerships: You partner with procurement to develop long-term supplier relationships focused on capability growth, innovation, and shared goals.
• Leading with Digital & Data-Driven Tools: You utilize digital tools and analytics to monitor trends, predict risks, and prioritize supplier development activities.

What you bring with you:

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Quality, or related field; Master’s degree preferred.
• Minimum of 10 years in supplier quality and development leadership roles within the ideally in the automotive manufacturing sector.
• Sound knowledge of quality management systems and methods such as ISO 9001 and IATF 16949 as well as knowledge of core tools (APQP, SPC, MSA, FMEA, PPF, PPAP)
• Experience leading structured supplier development programs and capability improvement initiatives.
• Proven success in leading and developing global teams across regions and cultures.
• Certified quality professional (e.g., CQE, CQA) or Six Sigma Black Belt preferred.
• Excellent communication, influencing, and relationship-building skills.
• Willingness to travel globally (~30–50%).