North America Regional Supplier Quality Manager

GE Vernova•Brossard, QC

About The Position

The Supplier Quality Manager demonstrates accountability for functional, business, and broad company objectives. He/she is responsible for Supplier Quality Management for all Supply Base in the region (regardless of Project Regions). In this role he/she manages a multi-competencies supplier quality team, integrates and develops processes that meet business needs across the organization, manage complex issues within functional area of expertise, be involved in long-term planning, and contribute to the overall business strategy.

Requirements

Engineering degree in mechanical or electrical with minimum 10 year of experience in similar business.
Experience in quality domain.
Strong written and verbal communication skills English and French.
Problem solving skills / Six sigma trained and certified or equivalent quality certification.
Ethics and values
Customer focus
Conflict management
Managerial courage
Ability to Work in team
Demonstrated technical aptitude & discussions and a passion for quality
Demonstrated management and leadership competencies
Demonstrated change management competencies
Communication and negotiation skills
Demonstrated proactive approach and issue ownership with process orientation
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills

Responsibilities

Define and implement the SQ strategy at regional level, aligned with the global strategy
Ensure that SQ team meet their key business priorities in the region like reduction of cost of quality and escape defects from supplier as per the defined business targets.
Ensure development of SQ team as per the business and individual needs.
Ensure that SQ team is perfectly aligned with business as well cross-functional needs.
Implement and monitor processes, tools and metrics at regional level
Ensure that the new suppliers of the region are onboarded with proper compliance and as per the defined sourcing process, like driving SRG audits related to approval process and maintain the approval status of the suppliers.
Ensure that the new suppliers are technically qualified (GECC qualification) before any PO to the supplier.
Ensure that complete existing supplier base is technically qualified as per the latest norms i.e. GECC level qualifications, also qualifications maintained on decided frequency.
Ensure effective and timely RCA and corrective plan implementation of NC related to sourcing.
Manage third party inspectors.
Monitor the supplier performance of the region on decided frequency and implement the supplier development plan accordingly.
Report hierarchically to Regional Sourcing Leader and functionally to Global Supplier Quality Leader.