About the role
Your mission & challenges
- You ensure and continuously develop the quality of our suppliers to maintain and strengthen our high quality standards.
- You systematically qualify, evaluate, and develop suppliers and support procurement in the selection and approval of new partners from a quality perspective.
- You plan and conduct supplier audits and process assessments to ensure compliance with our quality requirements.
- You take responsibility for supplier complaint management, analyze quality issues in a structured way, and ensure the sustainable implementation of corrective actions through the 8D process.
- You support supplier approvals, first article inspections, and sampling processes while ensuring that product and process requirements are met.
- You define and monitor key supplier KPIs and analyze supplier performance to identify and drive improvement initiatives.
- You work closely with procurement, production, and logistics and act as a technical interface for our suppliers.
- You actively contribute to the continuous improvement of our supplier quality processes and the further development of quality standards across the supply chain.
What we can look forward to
- You have a technical education or a completed degree in engineering, industrial engineering, production technology, quality management, or a related field.
- You bring several years of experience in supplier quality management, technical procurement, or supplier management, and you are experienced in conducting supplier audits and evaluations.
- You have solid knowledge of quality methods such as 8D, FMEA, and root cause analysis, and you are proficient with common quality standards, e.g., ISO 9001.
- You hold a certification as a supplier auditor, process auditor, or an equivalent qualification, such as VDA 6.3 or ISO 9001 Auditor.
- You possess technical understanding of products, manufacturing processes, and quality requirements, and you can analyze complaints as well as initiate and follow up on corrective actions.
- You present yourself confidently to external partners and suppliers and work in a structured, analytical, and solution-oriented manner.
- You are willing to conduct on-site supplier visits and have excellent German and English skills.