Supplier Quality Manager

Danaher • Chaska, MN

1d • Onsite

About The Position

At Beckman Coulter Diagnostics, one of Danaher’s operating companies, the work involves making a difference within life sciences, diagnostics, and biotechnology. As a global leader in clinical diagnostics for over 90 years, Beckman Coulter Diagnostics' solutions are used in routine and complex clinical testing in hospitals, reference and research laboratories, and physician offices worldwide, impacting 1.2 billion patients and over three million clinicians per year. The company operates under Danaher’s system of continuous improvement, the Danaher Business System. The Supplier Quality Manager is responsible for leading a team that plays a significant role in securing reliable and compliant products. This role oversees supplier selection and approval, material qualification, material control, and supplier development activities. The individual independently plans, coordinates, and reports on material projects and supplier performance, demonstrating sound technical ability and decision-making. The position will represent Supplier Quality on development, manufacturing, and product improvement projects, supporting cross-functional cooperation between Procurement, Quality, Logistics, Development, and Production. This is an on-site role located in Chaska, MN.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree with 9+ years exp. OR Master’s degree with 7+ years exp.
• Minimum 2 years of people management
• Ability to travel domestically up to 15% including overnight.
• Ability to lift, move or carry equipment up to 25lb, any other physical requirements.

Nice To Haves

• Supplier quality and supplier management experience
• Working within a global, multi-cultural, matrixed organization

Responsibilities

• Directly manage Supplier Quality team in relation to supporting daily operations to meet customer needs.
• Clearly direct and optimizes the Quality team resources by driving accountability to meeting goals and commitments to the business through clear prioritization of work assignments.
• Engage and develop talent by training, coaching, and modeling behaviors that align with Danaher Core Values and use of Danaher Business System Tools.
• Establish and drive clear objectives for the team with SMART goals that stretch the organization to grow and are tracked and reported to Operations partners and within the Quality organization on a regular basis.
• Collaborate with Operations and align on goals as well as short term actions.
• Maintain, implement, and continually improve the processes and QMS infrastructure, with the purpose of providing both best in class compliance and business support.
• Continually develop and proactively manage local metrics needed to gauge the performance of processes.
• Provide guidance to Operations, Quality, extended Quality groups and others functions regarding Compliance.

Benefits

• Broad array of comprehensive, competitive benefit programs that add value to our lives
• Health care program
• Paid time off
• Medical/dental/vision insurance
• 401(k)
• Bonus/incentive pay

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees