Global Supplier Quality Leader — Transformation & Impact

Somfy Group; Felgueiras; Hybrid; EUR 42,000 - 62,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Strategic leadership role

Global transformation project

Exposure to multinational operations

Career progression

Job summary

Somfy Group in Portugal seeks a Supplier Quality professional to manage development and mass production quality with external suppliers, ensuring compliant components throughout the lifecycle. You will drive process development, qualification plans, and smooth transfer to production, coordinating with project, purchasing, and industrial teams to meet QCDT goals.

The role emphasizes preventive and corrective actions with a continuous improvement mindset, engaging cross-functionally across

Qualifications

• Engineering or related degree required.
• Experience in supplier quality, project quality, production quality or industrialization.
• Knowledge of quality tools and problem-solving methodologies.
• Ability to conduct process audits and assess supplier production capacity.
• Experience in an industrial environment and interaction with suppliers.
• Fluent written and spoken English.

Responsibilities

• Define and implement supplier process development, ensuring compliance with QCDT scenarios agreed with project and purchasing teams.
• Lead the definition and validation of supplier product/process qualification plans.
• Ensure the transfer of supplier projects to mass production, securing the handover of information, risks, requirements and technical knowledge to industrial teams.
• Analyze, manage and ensure the effective handling of supplier claims.
• Drive continuous improvement actions to enhance overall supplier performance, with a focus on medium-term objectives.
• Conduct process and capacity audits at suppliers.
• Follow up on annual qualifications of supplier production processes.
• Initiate supplier performance escalation processes, in collaboration with purchasing, when required.
• Ensure the relevance of incoming inspection instructions across Group sites.

Skills

Quality tools & problem-solving

English proficiency

Education

Higher education degree in Engineering, Quality, Production, Industrialization or related field

Tools

APQP

PPAP

FMEA

Control plans

8D

Ishikawa

5 Why

Root cause analysis

Job description

Somfy Group in Portugal seeks a Supplier Quality professional to manage development and mass production quality with external suppliers, ensuring compliant components throughout the lifecycle. You will drive process development, qualification plans, and smooth transfer to production, coordinating with project, purchasing, and industrial teams to meet QCDT goals.

The role emphasizes preventive and corrective actions with a continuous improvement mindset, engaging cross-functionally across