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Job Purpose and Impact

The Supplier Quality Management and Audit Category Specialist, will support the team with safety risk management activities for materials, suppliers, external manufacturing facilities and other routine services related to the safe production of products. In this role, you will collaborate with internal and external teams on basic issues to reduce quality, product safety risks, address customer stakeholder requirements and concerns and collaborate on product safety audits.

Role is for temporary contract. 

Key Accountabilities

• Support the team in relationship management activities, such as tracking key performance indicators, building a supplier scorecard, trending claims and complaints and material, supplier and external manufacture maintenance activities on required documentation and information.
• Support new location and material setup along with completed supplier or material qualifications in the defined supplier database.
• Participate in supplier, external manufactures, internal product safety and company facility audit related activities to ensure corrective action plans are in place to meet quality and product safety requirements.
• Work closely with team to support the completion of the supplier or external manufacturer and material evaluation process to ensure the use of approved vendors who have met the requirements and have completed the required product safety improvements.
• Collaborate on supplier incidents and gather data to assist with investigating standard incidents or complaints and provide support to assist in conducting root cause analysis on key incidents.
• Ensure compliance with quality standards, policies and procedures.
• Handle basic issues and problems under direct supervision, while escalating more complex issues to appropriate staff.
• Other duties as assigned

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent experience

Preferred Qualifications

• Basic knowledge of product regulation
• Experience in product safety, quality and auditing systems