Senior Manager, Supplier Quality & Risk Improvement

Siemens Healthcare; United States; On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Varian Medical Systems, a Siemens Healthineers company, is seeking a Senior Manager, Supplier Quality Management to lead the Americas region. You will drive strategic supplier quality initiatives, governance, and continuous improvement across supplier networks, collaborating with Procurement, Quality Management, Manufacturing, and R&D.

You will focus on defect prevention, risk-based controls, and alignment with global quality strategy, while ensuring compliance with FDA QMSR, ISO standards, and

Responsibilities

• Lead, coach, and develop the Americas Supplier Quality Management organization.
• Provide strategic and operational leadership across the supplier quality lifecycle, including supplier selection and early involvement, qualification, onboarding, monitoring, development, NPI, Quality at the Source, product acceptance, supplier changes, quality controls, and supplier performance improvement.
• Execute the global Supplier Quality Management strategy across the Americas while contributing regional expertise and priorities to global processes and standards.
• Establish and maintain effective Supplier Quality Management governance across the Americas, ensuring consistent process execution and accountability.
• Ensure regional activities and supplier controls comply with Quality Management System and regulatory requirements, including FDA QMSR, ISO 13485:2016, ISO 14971:2019, EU MDR, and other applicable requirements.
• Lead regional implementation of Quality at the Source (QATS), driving preventive defect prevention through early supplier involvement and robust processes, with application of APQP, PPAP, FAI, PFMEA, Control Plans, SPC, MSA, process validation, Lean, and Six Sigma.

Job description

Varian Medical Systems, a Siemens Healthineers company, is seeking a Senior Manager, Supplier Quality Management to lead the Americas region. You will drive strategic supplier quality initiatives, governance, and continuous improvement across supplier networks, collaborating with Procurement, Quality Management, Manufacturing, and R&D.

You will focus on defect prevention, risk-based controls, and alignment with global quality strategy, while ensuring compliance with FDA QMSR, ISO standards, and