Job Description Summary
Job Description
Essential Responsibilities
* Lead and execute the LATAM Supplier Quality strategy, ensuring excellence in quality, delivery, compliance, and overall business competitiveness;
* Drive supplier qualification, development, and performance improvement across key metrics, including DPPM, SCARs, NCRs, SDRs, CoPQ, and NPI readiness, ensuring supplier accountability for Quality and OTD;
* Plan and conduct supplier audits, ensuring compliance with QMS, regulatory, and customer requirements, and support internal and external audit readiness.
* Lead structured problem-solving and continuous improvement initiatives (RCA, corrective actions, Lean events, process capability and industrial excellence );
* Partner cross-functionally with Sourcing, Manufacturing, Engineering, Product Management, and Operations, including new supplier and product qualification activities;
* Build, lead, and develop the Supplier Quality and Incoming Inspection teams, managing resources, priorities, budgets, and internal/external stakeholder engagement.
Required Qualifications
* Bachelor’s degree in Engineering (Industrial, Production, Mechanical, Electrical, Metallurgical, or related disciplines);
* Solid experience in Supplier Quality, Quality, Supply Chain, or Manufacturing, preferably in an industrial environment;
* Fluent in English and Portuguese, both written and verbal;
* Proven experience leading teams and influencing in a matrix, regional, or global environment ;
* Strong expertise in quality systems, supplier audits, continuous improvement, Lean, and supplier performance management ;
* Willingness to travel up to 30% domestically and internationally.
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