Strategic Supplier Quality Manager

1 week ago


Birmingham, United Kingdom National Highways Full time

Your new role

Strategic Supplier Quality Manager - Strategic Support

Job Role

What you’ll be doing
- Enhance quality and supplier performance improvement for assigned suppliers.
- Perform supplier assessments ensuring compliance and driving improvement plans where interventions are needed.
- Build effective relationships with key internal and external supply chain stakeholders.
- Identify opportunities for supplier improvement activities.
- Manage supplier quality developments in line with National Highways’ sourcing strategy to ensure supplier performance targets are met.
- Work with suppliers to ensure robust process controls are in place to prevent non-conformities and maintain service levels.
- Implement improvements utilising Lean methodologies, supplier scorecards and assure supplier compliance audits.
- React to reported supplier performance trends to prevent sustained reductions in standards.
- Develop a systemised quality management approach.

To be successful

Experience & Technical Skills Required
- Knowledge or experience of operating with the supply chain in the construction or manufacturing sector would be preferred.
- A trained quality auditor, with knowledge of quality standards.
- Good knowledge of quality management systems and processes efficiency techniques.
- Able to deliver complex quality improvement solutions with multiple stakeholders at varying levels of seniority.
- Want to know more?

Why you should join us
At National Highways we believe in a connected country. We are passionate about creating a culture where colleagues feel connected, included and enjoy greater wellbeing to achieve this. We’re proud that as an organisation we are continually striving to do betterand actively encourage and support our colleagues to do the same with their careers.
So if you put safety first, take ownership of your work, show passion for what you do, work effectively in a team, and demonstrate integrity in how you do it - then you’ll be a great fit for our organisation
- Right to work check
- 3 year employment history references
- DBS criminal record check
- Social media and adverse journalism check
- Driving licence check (if applicable)
- Fit to work questionnaire (for all), followed by a medical check (if applicable)

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