Supplier Quality Engineer Lead
About The Position
CooperSurgical is a leading fertility and women’s healthcare company dedicated to putting time on the side of women, babies, and families at the healthcare moments that matter most in life. As a division of CooperCompanies, we're driven by a unified purpose to enable patients to experience life's beautiful moments. Guided by our shared values – dedicated, innovative, friendly, partners, and do the right thing – our offerings support patients throughout their lifetimes, from contraception to fertility and birth solutions, to women’s and family care, and beyond. We currently offer over 600 clinically relevant medical devices to healthcare providers, including testing and treatment options, as well as an innovative suite of assisted reproductive technology and genomic testing solutions. Learn more at www.coopersurgical.com. Work location: Trumbull, CT or Livingston, NJ (on-site) Scope: The Supplier Quality Engineer Lead is responsible for strategic leadership and execution of the Global Supplier Quality Management Program. This role provides functional leadership across supplier quality activities, ensures regulatory and QMS compliance, and drives continuous improvement across critical and strategic suppliers. The Lead operates with a high degree of autonomy, influences cross‑functional and senior leadership decisions, and sets direction for supplier quality governance, risk management, and performance improvement. Job Summary: The Supplier Quality Engineer Lead governs supplier qualification, compliance, auditing, development, and escalation activities for high‑risk, high‑impact, and strategic suppliers. This role owns supplier quality strategy, serves as escalation point for complex supplier issues and regulatory interactions, and plays a key role in management review, audit readiness, and organizational quality maturity. The position provides leadership and mentoring to Supplier Quality Engineers and partners closely with Procurement, Operations, Engineering, Regulatory, and Business Leaders.
Requirements
- Experience in supplier quality management.
- Experience in regulatory and QMS compliance.
- Experience in driving continuous improvement.
- Experience in supplier governance, risk management, and performance improvement.
- Experience in supplier qualification, compliance, auditing, development, and escalation.
- Experience in management review and audit readiness.
- Leadership and mentoring skills.
- Ability to partner with cross-functional teams.
Responsibilities
- Strategic leadership and execution of the Global Supplier Quality Management Program.
- Functional leadership across supplier quality activities.
- Ensuring regulatory and QMS compliance.
- Driving continuous improvement across critical and strategic suppliers.
- Operating with a high degree of autonomy.
- Influencing cross-functional and senior leadership decisions.
- Setting direction for supplier quality governance, risk management, and performance improvement.
- Governing supplier qualification, compliance, auditing, development, and escalation activities for high-risk, high-impact, and strategic suppliers.
- Owning supplier quality strategy.
- Serving as escalation point for complex supplier issues and regulatory interactions.
- Playing a key role in management review, audit readiness, and organizational quality maturity.
- Providing leadership and mentoring to Supplier Quality Engineers.
- Partnering closely with Procurement, Operations, Engineering, Regulatory, and Business Leaders.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
No Education Listed
