Global Supplier Development Lead

Flowserve; Torreón; On-site; MXN 900,000 - 1,300,000; Full time

Job summary

Flowserve is seeking a Supplier Development Supervisor to lead improvement programs across supplier quality, delivery, cost, and capacity. You will drive capability assessments, onboarding, and audits, collaborating with Procurement, Quality, Engineering, and Category Management teams.

You will apply Lean/Six Sigma methodologies, manage supplier readiness, and mitigate supplier-related risks while supporting global supplier-readiness efforts and localization initiatives.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain, Engineering, Business, or a related field.
• Minimum 8 years of experience in supplier development, supplier quality, procurement, manufacturing, or a related discipline.
• Demonstrated leadership capability, including experience leading initiatives, influencing stakeholders, or managing supplier-development activities.
• Strong knowledge of supplier performance management, supplier capability improvement, and continuous-improvement practices.
• Well versed in Production Part Approval Process (PPAP)
• Experience conducting supplier audits, assessments, capability evaluations, and supplier-improvement projects.
• Strong communication, negotiation, relationship-management, and stakeholder-management skills.
• Ability to travel to supplier sites as required.

Responsibilities

• Lead supplier-development initiatives to improve supplier quality, delivery, cost, capacity, certifications, process development, and compliance.
• Identify underperforming suppliers and establish structured improvement plans with defined KPIs.
• Support the development and qualification of key suppliers' capability and capacity.
• Drive supplier continuous-improvement projects using Lean, Six Sigma, or similar methodologies.
• Provide supplier-development support for assigned Category Management and Divisional team initiatives.
• Act as a key escalation resource for supplier-performance issues and support corrective-action activities.

Skills

Supplier development

Leadership

Cross-functional collaboration

Root-cause analysis

PPAP knowledge

Supplier performance management

Stakeholder management

Education

Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain, Engineering, or related field

Job description

Flowserve is seeking a Supplier Development Supervisor to lead improvement programs across supplier quality, delivery, cost, and capacity. You will drive capability assessments, onboarding, and audits, collaborating with Procurement, Quality, Engineering, and Category Management teams.

You will apply Lean/Six Sigma methodologies, manage supplier readiness, and mitigate supplier-related risks while supporting global supplier-readiness efforts and localization initiatives.