Regional Supplier Quality Manager

**About the Role**:
The purpose of this role is the manage the medium to long term Olympus quality strategy for externally sourced specific categories to provide optimised quality assurance and regulatory compliance of externally sourced materials and service.

Reporting to the Director Regional Supplier Quality Management, you will be accountable for:

- Ensures the qualification and approval of suppliers
- Performs regular supplier audits and initiates and monitors required measures
- Decides on the debarring / deactivation of suppliers
- Prepares and executes global/regional and local quality assurance agreements on behalf of Olympus and makes sure Olympus commitments are held in all sites
- Works in a joint team with global/regional procurement and supply chain management for supplier selection, supplier evaluation, supplier development, supplier risk management
- Participates in category (strategy) boards of the category
- Leads supplier improvement projects
- Analyzes supplier quality KPIs, makes necessary decisions and initiates actions as required
- Acts as first escalation level for local Supplier Quality Engineers regarding product related quality issues
- Develops and executes vision and strategy for the supplier quality assurance activities together with the Category Manager for suppliers of the category and promotes the strategy within the organisation
- Supports facility audits by outside agencies (i.e., FDA, ISO / MDSAP)

**About Olympus**:
Our purpose at Olympus is to **_make peoples’ lives healthier, safer and more fulfilling_**. We do this through innovation. As a technology pioneer, we design and deliver solutions across our Medical division that makes a positive contribution to society.

Our products are used to capture the medical and diagnostic images of our world, from the microscopic to the endoscopic. They are instrumental for traveling inside the human body to help diagnose, treat and prevent illness.

Our commitment to customers and our social responsibility is the cornerstone of everything we do.

**Why work at Olympus?**

At Olympus, we are dedicated to fostering a high performing culture, a collaborative environment, and enabling everyone to shine. Our common values of **_Integrity, Empathy, Long-Term View, Agility _**and**_ Unity_** form the foundation of our culture and guide our behaviour, where our people feel like they are making a difference every single day.

Not only will you benefit from a meaningful, rewarding, and challenging career, you will have access to a range of benefits:

- A competitive salary package + AWS + Variable Bonus
- Hybrid work arrangements.
- Health and Wellbeing initiatives (Annual Medical Checkups and Dental benefits)

**What we are looking for**:
You will consider yourself to be a proactive, achievement-orientated and a determined individual with:

- A Bachelor Degree or equivalent in Life Science, Engineering, or Physical Science with an advanced technical degree and MBA preferred. ?
- Minimum of 5 years of experience in supplier quality management.
- Demonstrated comprehensive expertise in the applied interpretation of worldwide regulatory standards and laws applicable to the medical device e.g., ISO, QSR, GMP, jPAL, cCMP
- Knowledge of and experience in supplier management of suppliers with global/regional footprint.
- High level of quality tools and methodology skills (e.g. 8D, 5-Whys, FMEA, IQ/OQ/PQ)
- Excellent written and oral communication and organizational, project management skills.
- Certified Supplier Quality Auditor
- Contract negotiation skills
- Preferably knowledge in the category

**Want to know more?**

Confidential discussions are welcome; contact our Regional Talent Acquisition Specialist.

A comprehensive Job Description is available on our Careers page.

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**_ Olympus is an Equal Opportunity Employer_