Supplier Quality Manager

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Rail Infrastructure, one of three businesses within Siemens Mobility Limited UKI, is a leading UK rail industry provider. We offer a broad portfolio of solutions, including signalling, train control systems, fixed and mobile telecommunications, station management, electrification and integrated digital solutions, to help our customers deliver the best possible UK rail system.

The role of the Supplier Quality Manager is to act as an expert to lead and act to improve supplier quality across SMO RI UK&I manufacturing and project delivery. The role sets a clear supplier quality strategy, including innovation and uses data, advanced analytics and appropriate AI capabilities to identify risk, improve performance and support robust decision making. The role will drive business excellence and foster cross-functional collaboration across Procurement, Quality, Manufacturing, Engineering/R&D, Project Management and Delivery across the UK&I. The Supplier Quality Manager will build supplier relationships and work across the category and commodity teams. Focus areas include Innovation, Supplier Cost of Poor-Quality reduction, Root Cause Investigations and Auditing compliance to all business requirements, certifications and regulations.

You'll be responsible for...

• Supplier quality strategy and governance: Define, deploy and improve the Supplier Quality strategy to ensure adherence to Siemens processes. Reduce Cost of Poor Quality and improve governance.
• Supplier selection, qualification and approval: Apply risk-based quality, compliance, sustainability and capability criteria to support supplier selection, sourcing decisions, qualification and approval. Maintain a level of market intelligence sufficient to provide insight to supply chain and leadership.
• Supplier quality planning: Establish supplier quality plans, targets, acceptance criteria, controls and interfaces aligned to product, service, project and supplier criticality.
• Supplier audits and assessments: Plan, lead and report supplier audits, assessments and reviews, ensuring actions are defined, followed up and verified for effectiveness.
• Supplier performance management and development: Manage supplier quality performance, strategic status, integration, supervision and development activity with category and commodity teams.
• Quality Insight, KPIs and escalation: Monitor and communicate at Executive level the outcomes of supplier quality status, risks, incidents, and KPIs. Advise senior leadership on effective action plans.
• Non-conformance and problem solving: Lead and deliver effective containment, reporting, root cause analysis, corrective action across the organisation. (8D and other tools etc).
• Risk, resilience and contingency planning: Identify, prioritise and verify supplier quality and supply-chain risks, driving mitigation, resilience and contingency planning with cross-functional stakeholders.
• Continuous improvement, innovation and analytics: Lead improvement programmes, lessons learned, digital workflows and data analytics to reduce risk, improve performance and create value.
• Contracts, QAA, compliance and capability building: Define quality-related contract and Quality Assurance Agreement requirements, support compliance and sustainability expectations, and coach colleagues in SQM methods.