Category SQM Engineer

•Responsible to lead and manage the day-to-day activities of the Supplier Quality Function for Category supplier base in Asia.

•Maintain the Global Category Supplier Panel for the region aligned with the Purchasing Category Strategy.

•Support the Definition and implementation of category specific quality standards.

•Drive Lessons Learned & Read Across items to avoid recurrences at/and across suppliers.

•Perform and follow up VDA 6.3 audits with Suppliers, the assessment and introduction of potential new suppliers in close cooperation with BA Supplier Management, Category Management, Business Area R&D and Purchasing.

•Support Plant Supplier Quality in case of escalation for respective categories within the SQM organization, internally /externally as required.

•Initiate and manage supplier improvement programs with Supplier’s top Management and change management for running production components.

•Escalation Management on...