Supplier Development Lead: Quality, Delivery & Capability

Flowserve; Torreón; On-site; MXN 600,000 - 900,000; Full time

Job summary

Flowserve Corporation is seeking a Supplier Development Supervisor to support onboarding, qualification, and development of supplier capability aligned with strategic goals. The role emphasizes improving supplier performance across quality, delivery, cost, and capacity, and includes cross-functional collaboration with Procurement, Quality, Engineering, and Category Management teams.

The successful candidate will lead development initiatives, conduct supplier audits and PPAP reviews, and drive

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain, Engineering, Business, or a related field.
• Minimum 8 years in supplier development, supplier quality, procurement, manufacturing, or related discipline.
• Demonstrated leadership capability including leading initiatives, influencing stakeholders, or managing supplier-development activities.
• Strong knowledge of supplier performance management, 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 work effectively in a cross-functional environment involving Procurement, Quality, Engineering, and business teams.
• Willingness 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 development and qualification of key suppliers’ capability and capacity for strategic initiatives.
• 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 root-cause corrective-action activities when required.

Skills

Supplier development

Leadership

Communication

Stakeholder management

Travel

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

PPAP

Lean Six Sigma

Job description

Flowserve Corporation is seeking a Supplier Development Supervisor to support onboarding, qualification, and development of supplier capability aligned with strategic goals. The role emphasizes improving supplier performance across quality, delivery, cost, and capacity, and includes cross-functional collaboration with Procurement, Quality, Engineering, and Category Management teams.

The successful candidate will lead development initiatives, conduct supplier audits and PPAP reviews, and drive