Supplier Quality Leader — Project & Mass Production

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

As a trusted partner in the automation of openings and closings for homes and buildings,SOMFYis committed to inspiring new ways of living for everyone.

A French, family-owned, and independent group, we have been continuously growing since our founding. For 50 years, we have been the global leader in home automation and a pioneer in smart living solutions. Innovation drives our daily operations and ensures the excellence of our products and services.

We are present in59 countries, with8 production sitesand17 R&D centers.

Deeply committed to the well-being of our 6.000 employees, we invest in their long-term employability through internal mobility and skills development. We actively promotediversity and inclusion, supported by a strong corporate culture.

Job Description

1. Role overview

This role combines two complementary dimensions of supplier quality: quality during the project/development phase and quality during mass production. The objective is to ensure that suppliers deliver compliant components, on time and with sustainable performance throughout the full product life cycle.

Ensure the development, validation, transfer and continuous performance of processes and components supplied by external suppliers, securing Quality, Cost, Delivery and Technical objectives from project phase through to mass production.

3. Main responsibilities

• Define and implement supplier process development, ensuring compliance with the 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.

4. Performance indicators

• Compliance with project milestones and QCDT phase transitions.
• Response time to secure purchased components.
• Supplier Success Index.
• Number of supplier claims during development and production.
• Number of recurring quality issues.

5. Target recruitment profile

The ideal profile is a Supplier Quality professional with cross-functional experience between product/process development and mass production. The person should be able to act both preventively, during projects and industrialization, and correctively, during the series life of components, with a continuous improvement mindset.

Qualifications

• Higher education degree in Engineering, Quality, Production, Industrialization or a related field.
• Experience in supplier quality, project quality, production quality, industrialization or technical purchasing.
• Knowledge of quality tools and problem-solving methodologies.
• Ability to conduct process audits and assess supplier production capacity.
• Experience in an industrial environment and regular interaction with suppliers.
• Fluent written and spoken English.

Valued skills and experience

• Experience with APQP, PPAP, FMEA, control plans, 8D, Ishikawa, 5 Why and root cause analysis.
• Knowledge of purchasing processes, supplier development and industrialization.
• Ability to manage international suppliers and influence internal stakeholders.
• Experience in claims management, PPM indicators and supplier improvement plans.
• Autonomy, rigor, negotiation skills and results orientation.

6. Main interfaces

The role will interact regularly with Suppliers, Purchasing, Production, Project Managers, Technical Design, Methods, Industrialization, Metrology, Laboratory and Quality teams. It is a highly cross-functional coordination role, requiring strong communication with technical, operational and purchasing stakeholders.

Additional Information

What We Offer

• The opportunity to lead a strategic global transformation project.
• A key leadership role with high visibility across all regions.
• Exposure to multinational operations and collaboration.
• Career progression within a growing and innovative manufacturing framework.