Manager-Supplier Quality Engineering

Job Title

Manager-Supplier Quality Engineering

Job Description

The Manager-Supplier Quality Engineering is a key member of Philips’ Ultrasound Quality team, responsible for overseeing supplier performance, NPI, driving continuous quality improvement, ensuring regulatory compliance, and fostering collaboration/innovation.

Your role:

• Responsible for Functional leadership across the team, driving employee selection, performance management, compensation management, career development, and ensuring effective operational management.
• Manages technical capability assessments of potential new suppliers, ensuring their capabilities align with organizational standards, and manages the supplier selection. Initiates supplier improvement and development initiatives within the APQP framework, including supplier performance monitoring, quality risk assessment, and mitigation strategies, while supporting the development, execution, and maintenance of supplier audit schedules.
• Supervises, monitors, and controls APQP (Advanced Product Quality Planning) plans as part of both the NPI and sustaining change processes, ensuring consistent quality throughout the product lifecycle. Provides essential quality-related content and documentation for the Supplier Project Book, aiding in supplier engagement.
• Fosters collaboration between R&D and suppliers through Design for Excellence (DfX) initiatives, promoting innovative designs that meet quality standards. Ensures Critical to Quality (CtQ) characteristics are effectively communicated to suppliers and incorporated into their processes, supporting consistent quality output.
• Oversees Part Submission Warrant (PSW) plans, deliverables, line releases, and completion, ensuring all parts meet specified quality requirements before production approval.
Manages the quality relationship with key suppliers, negotiating Supplier Quality Agreements, conducting defect analyses to determine supplier responsibility, and serving as an independent reviewer for Supplier Corrective Action Requests (SCAR), while providing guidance and leadership in specific SQ functional areas such as APQP and SCAR.

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You're the right fit if:

• You have a minimum of 7+ years’ experience in Quality within highly regulated product environments (Medical Device, Automotive, Aerospace), with a focus on Supplier Quality, NPI, Manufacturing, Design Engineering, supplier selection, performance assessment, APQP, Risk Assessments, SCAR’s etc.
• You’ve acquired a minimum of 2+ years’ experience in team/functional leadership of Supplier Quality Engineering teams, mentoring, team development/training, performance management and fostering a culture of continuous improvement/quality excellence within the team.
• You have detailed knowledge of medical device regulations, requirements, and standards, such as 21 CFR Parts 803, 806, and 820, ISO 13485, ISO 14971, European Medical Device Directive (93/42/EEC), EU Medical Device Regulation, Canadian Medical Devices Regulation (SOR/98-282)- Desired
• You have proven experience utilizing data analytics to assess supplier/team performance and identify/drive process improvement opportunities.
• You have strong communications skills and the proven ability to effectively communicate, influence and build relationships cross-functionally with a variety of internal/external stakeholders, suppliers, Regulatory Agencies, Notified Bodies etc.
• You have a minimum of a Bachelor’s Degree (Required) in Quality, Supply Chain Management, Electrical/Electronic Engineering, or related disciplines. ASQ and/or Six Sigma DfX Certifications- Desired.
• You must be able to successfully perform the following minimum Physical, Cognitive and Environmental job requirements with or without accommodation for this position .

How we work together:

We believe that we are better together than a part. For our Office-based teams, this means working in-person at least 3 days per week. Onsite roles require full-time presence in the company’s facilities. Field roles are most effectively done outside of the company’s main facilities, generally at the customers’ or suppliers’ locations. This is an Office role.

About Philips:

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Philips Transparency Details:

• The pay range for this position in Reedsville, PA is $114,750 to $183,600.
• The pay range for this position in Bothell, WA is $128,520 to $205,632.

The actual base pay offered may vary within the posted ranges depending on multiple factors including job-related knowledge/skills, experience, business needs, geographical location, and internal equity.

At Philips, it is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the top end of the range for their role and compensation decisions are dependent upon the facts and circumstances of each case.

In addition, other compensation, such as an annual incentive bonus, sales commission or long-term incentives may be offered. Employees are eligible to participate in our comprehensive Philips Total Rewards benefits program, which includes a generous PTO, 401k (up to 7% match), HSA (with company contribution), stock purchase plan, education reimbursement and much more. Details about our benefits can be found here .

Additional Information:

• US work authorization is a precondition of employment. The company will not consider candidates who require sponsorship for a work-authorized visa, now or in the future.
• Company relocation benefits will not be provided for this position. For this position, you must reside in or within commuting distance to Reedsville, PA or Bothell, WA .
• This role may require travel up to 15%.

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This requisition is expected to stay active for 45 days but may close earlier if a successful candidate is selected or business necessity dictates. Interested candidates are encouraged to apply as soon as possible to ensure consideration.

Philips is an Equal Employment and Opportunity Employer including Disability/Vets and maintains a drug-free workplace.