Office / hybrid working
Description
Supplier Quality Assurance and Supplier Quality Development for Logistics suppliers. Includes supplier qualifications, action plans, audits, performance monitoring, and assisting key suppliers towards industrial standards of excellence.
Leads and monitors supplier development activities across the assigned category
Managing logistic process non-conformities by monitoring LCAF tickets and developing and executing Supplier Quality improvement initiatives
Engaging with Logistic functions and suppliers to improve LCAF response and closure rate
Proactively drives logistic related supplier process improvement to enable on-time-supply
Drives high severity incident analysis and corrective actions with logistic suppliers
Participates on business reviews along with operation logistic and logistic category with Carriers, Freight Forwarder and distribution centers,
Having effective communication with other functional areas required. Influencing peers to meet the objectives.
To be successful in this role you will:
Have a bachelor’s degree from an accredited university or college.
Have minimum of 4 years of experience in a Supplier Quality or Quality Role.
Bring working knowledge of assigned category
Possess ISO 9001 Auditor skills, ideally lead auditor qualification
Experienced in continuous improvement processes (6S, Lean, or similar)
Desired Characteristics
Strong oral and written communication skills. Strong interpersonal and leadership skills. Ability to influence others. Lead initiatives of moderate scope and impact. Ability to coordinate several projects simultaneously. Effective problem identification and solution skills. Proven analytical and organizational ability.
Essential Requirements of the role
ISO 9001, SAP, minimum 4 years experience, Quality background - supplier quality - process improvement with suppliers, requesting scorecards, communication between logictics team and supplier
Desirable attributes of the worker
Strong work ethic, independantly driven
Technical Skills
Previous experience in similar enviornment
Soft Skills
Can work as stand alone, able to use client systems (training provided)
Education Qualifications
Bachelor's degree would be nice to have
Notes:
Office / hybrid working
Hoping to see a level of ability on day 1, but SAP training will be provided
Sometimes - travelling between suppliers
VIVA is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants have an equal opportunity for placement, and all employees have an equal opportunity to develop on the job. This means that VIVA will not discriminate against any employee or qualified applicant on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status