Director, Supplier Quality

About the role

The Director of Global Supplier Quality leads the company’s worldwide supplier quality strategy, ensuring that all suppliers meet rigorous quality, reliability, and delivery standards. This senior leader drives supplier development, engineering support, and NPI readiness across a complex, high‑growth electronics manufacturing environment.

Key responsibilities

• Define and execute a global supplier quality strategy aligned with growth initiatives and product roadmap expansion.
• Establish supplier quality standards, performance metrics, and governance frameworks, leading the Supplier Quality Council with cross‑functional stakeholders.
• Lead supplier development programs, implementing standardized assessments, maturity models, and continuous‑improvement tools such as SPC, Six Sigma, PFMEA, and PPAP/APQP.
• Oversee global Supplier Engineering teams for component qualification, process validation, and DFM/DFA at supplier sites.
• Provide quality oversight for EMS partners, ODMs, JDMs, and contract manufacturers, ensuring compliance with production quality KPIs and effective corrective actions.
• Support NPI readiness from EVT to MP, coordinating DFM/DFA reviews, qualification plans, golden‑sample validation, and line‑readiness audits.

Required profile

• Proven senior leadership experience in electronics manufacturing and EMS environments.
• Demonstrated ability to develop and implement global supplier quality strategies and governance.
• Strong track record of supplier development, risk management, and continuous‑improvement initiatives.
• Excellent cross‑functional collaboration skills with Procurement, Operations, R&D, and NPI teams.

Required skills

• Statistical Process Control (SPC)
• Six Sigma methodology
• Process Failure Mode Effects Analysis (PFMEA)
• Production Part Approval Process (PPAP) / Advanced Product Quality Planning (APQP)
• Design for Manufacturability (DFM) and Design for Assembly (DFA)
• PCN/ECN change management
• Supplier scorecard development and governance
• Quality metrics and risk mitigation