Supply Chain Quality Manager

Summary: The Supply Chain Quality Manager will serve as the primary operational interface between suppliers and customers, fostering trust and collaboration. This role involves assessing supplier performance, ensuring compliance with quality standards, and managing supplier improvement projects. The manager will also oversee contract compliance and coordinate supply chain quality aspects to ensure timely and cost-effective delivery. The position requires a hybrid working arrangement with three days on-site in Portsmouth.

Key Responsibilities:

• Act as key operational supplier interface and inspire trust & teamwork between customer & suppliers.
• Facilitate relations between customer & suppliers.
• Assess supplier capacity, capability & performance and contribute to supplier development.
• Ensure a constant workload at supplier level and prevent any missing inputs.
• Prevent any rupture in the work at supplier level.
• Challenge suppliers on each modification of the contract to stay at isoperimeter (OTOCOQ).
• Contribute to all documents that clarify the business between ADS & suppliers (Change request, Generic Specifications, etc.).
• Ensure on Quality, on Time deliveries to protect business operations by managing milestones, product life cycle reviews, and deliverables coordinating.
• Verify compliance to applicable requirements and secure industrial maturity (supplier capability & capacity) with product/supplier inspection and assessment.
• Lead supplier performance review (Vendor review board) and represent supply chain operations in various forums (Supplier selection, multifunctional team, yearly supplier evaluation).
• Initiate and manage supplier performance improvement projects (Ensure that a transformation plan was followed by the supplier).
• Work out short-term recovery plans.
• Identify the supplier's industrial risks and propose mitigation actions.
• Communicate status & plans and escalate where relevant.
• Manage/contribute to supply chain & quality aspects of the contract being responsible for On time, on Quality (and on Cost when applicable) performance.
• Manage supplier quality approval to ensure that suppliers are compliant with certifications required in coordination with relevant stakeholders.

Key Skills:

• Experience in supply chain management and quality assurance.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills.
• Ability to assess supplier performance and implement improvement plans.
• Knowledge of compliance and quality standards.
• Proficiency in tools such as Google Suite, SAP, and NC-CAPA.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Experience in managing supplier relationships and negotiations.

Salary (Rate): £235/day

City: Portsmouth

Country: UK

Working Arrangements: hybrid

IR35 Status: undetermined

Seniority Level: undetermined

Industry: Other