Sr Mgr, Supplier Quality Management

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

Join us in pioneering breakthroughs in healthcare. For everyone. Everywhere. Sustainably.

Our inspiring and caring environment forms a global community that celebrates diversity and individuality. We encourage you to step beyond your comfort zone, offering resources and flexibility to foster your professional and personal growth, all while valuing your unique contributions.

Ensure and continuously improve quality of suppliers and their deliveries. Support and drive cross-functional cooperation with Procurement, Quality Management, Manufacturing and Logistics, R&D or/and Project Management (PM).

Ensure compliance of SQM with applicable regulatory and quality requirements. Join us in pioneering breakthroughs in healthcare. For everyone. Everywhere. Sustainably.

Our inspiring and caring environment forms a global community that celebrates diversity and individuality. We encourage you to step beyond your comfort zone, offering resources and flexibility to foster your professional and personal growth, all while valuing your unique contributions.

Varian Medical Systems, a Siemens Healthineers company, is seeking a Senior Manager, Supplier Quality Management to lead our Supplier Quality Management organization across the Americas. In this role, you will provide strategic and operational leadership for regional Supplier Quality Management activities, ensuring the quality, reliability, and compliance of externally supplied components, materials, products, and services.

Working closely with Procurement, Engineering, Manufacturing, Product Quality, Incoming Inspection, Supply Chain, Regulatory Affairs, Service, and global Supplier Quality Management and Engineering partners, you will lead the Americas Supplier Quality Management team, establish regional priorities, strengthen supplier quality management governance and technical capability, and drive supplier performance and continuous improvement in alignment with the global Supplier Quality strategy.

A key focus of this role will be advancing Quality at the Source (QATS) across the Americas, shifting quality management toward defect prevention through earlier supplier involvement, stronger supplier processes, risk-based controls, and the effective application of APQP, PPAP, SPC, process capability, FMEA, Lean, Six Sigma, and other preventive quality methodologies.

In this role, you will mainly be responsible for the following:

• Lead, coach, and develop the Americas Supplier Quality Management organization, establishing clear objectives, priorities, responsibilities, and performance expectations while ensuring appropriate resources, competencies, and capabilities are in place.
• 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, performance insights, and priorities to the continued development of global Supplier Quality processes, standards, and ways of working.
• Establish and maintain effective Supplier Quality Management governance across the Americas, ensuring consistent process execution, risk-based supplier controls, performance expectations, escalation mechanisms, and accountability.
• Ensure regional Supplier Quality activities and supplier controls comply with applicable Quality Management System and regulatory requirements, including FDA QMSR, ISO 13485:2016, ISO 14971:2019, EU MDR, and other applicable global and regional requirements.
• Lead regional implementation and execution of Quality at the Source (QATS), driving proactive defect prevention through early supplier involvement, robust manufacturing processes, risk-based controls, and integration with Incoming Inspection and Product Quality requirements. Drive the effective application of APQP, PPAP, FAI, PFMEA, Control Plans, SPC, MSA, process capability, process validation, Lean, and Six Sigma to improve supplier capability and reduce variation and defects.
• Provide governance and oversight for supplier qualification, risk assessment, supplier audits, Quality/Master/Supplier Quality Agreements, supplier changes and change notifications, ongoing supplier monitoring, and supplier development, ensuring controls and qualification requirements are appropriate to product, process, compliance, and business risk.
• Provide leadership and oversight for significant supplier nonconformances, SCARs, supplier escapes, quality escalations, and supplier development plans, ensuring timely containment, effective root cause analysis, sustainable corrective action, effectiveness verification, and appropriate escalation.
• Provide leadership during critical supplier quality events, production interruptions, field issues, and other significant supplier-related ri