Join us as Supplier Quality Leader and drive supplier quality excellence across the product lifecycle for the MR organization. You'll lead APQP implementation, ensure regulatory compliance, and shape strategic supplier decisions. You’ll lead a global supplier quality team spread across multiple locations, including the US, India, China and Best.This is a dynamic role with wide-ranging responsibilities and frequent engagement with diverse stakeholders. **Your role:** + Oversees development and deployment of a comprehensive supplier performance strategy aligned with supply management and business objectives, ensuring alignment across the organization. + Assesses and makes decisions, including veto power, through technical capability assessment aspects during the supplier selection process, ensuring only high-quality suppliers are engaged. + Leads a global supplier quality team of 15–20 professionals across multiple sites, including the US, India, China, and Best. Responsible for succession planning and comprehensive talent management, including employee selection, performance and compensation management, and career development—all aligned with the organization’s operational goals. + Ensures the annual formulation of a comprehensive quality improvement plan (QIP) tailored specifically to meet the evolving needs of strategic/preferred BOM suppliers, and subsequently oversees its timely and effective implementation to drive continuous enhancement in product quality and supplier performance. + Assumes responsibility for managing the control and mitigation of supplier-related risks pertaining to quality, delivery, and cost, thereby safeguarding the interests of the organization. + Implements a comprehensive system for reviewing and monitoring supplier quality performance, executing DFMAT (Design for Manufacturing and Assembly Technique), APQP (Advanced Product Quality Plan), to drive ongoing enhancement initiatives. + Upholds compliance with Philips' sustainability standards and guidelines within the assigned supply base, advocating for ethical and environmentally responsible practices to foster sustainable business relationships. + Leads the development of robust networks of internal and external stakeholders, including customers, business leaders, suppliers, procurement professionals, vendors, and consultants, fostering collaboration and alignment. + Establishes medium-term operational decision policies for the business, influencing its success and guiding strategic directions and drives organizational transformation and change management by facilitating the adoption of new Supplier Engineering practices. + Guides analysis of complex and non-recurring supply problems, utilizing diagnostic skills and judgement to determine the most appropriate approach or procedure for resolution. **You're the right fit if you have:** + Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Engineering + At least 10–15 years of experience in manufacturing processes, quality engineering, or supplier quality, within the medical device sector + Proven leadership experience in managing global teams, with a strong track record of at least 5 years in people management. + Advanced problem-solving skills and solid knowledge of Lean Six Sigma methodologies, manufacturing processes, product quality planning, and APQP + Ability to collaborate effectively across departments and deliver results that align with broader business objectives **How we work together** We believe that we are better together than apart. For this office-based teams, it means working in-person at least 3 days per week. **About Philips** We are a health technology company. We built our entire company around the belief that every human matters, and we won't stop until everybody everywhere has access to the quality healthcare that we all deserve. Do the work of your life to help the lives of others. * Learn more about our business. * Discover our rich and exciting history. * Learn more about our purpose. If you’re interested in this role and have many, but not all, of the experiences needed, we encourage you to apply. You may still be the right candidate for this or other opportunities at Philips. Learn more about our commitment to diversity and inclusion here. LI-OFFICE LI-EU