Supplier Quality Analyst

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Position Overview: 

The Supplier Quality Analyst provides strategic and tactical support to Manufacturing by executing quality activities such as: Advanced Product Quality Planning (APQP) process, Supplier development activities, Corrective Actions (SCARS), reporting to maintain and improve customer satisfaction, eliminate errors and improve efficiency.  As a result, the Procurement Team depends on the Supplier Quality Analyst to be fully engaged with the global supply base to ensure that all direct purchased materials meet performance specification requirements and do so over time to eliminate line downs, recalls, or other quality failures resulting in customer dissatisfaction.

At Brunswick, we have passion for our work and a distinct ability to deliver. 

Key Responsibilities:

Tactical Supplier Quality: 

Independently, and in collaboration with assigned suppliers within the global supply base, process and execute quality activities.  Maintain effective business communications/relationships with suppliers and internal customers to understand any quality impacts to production to proactively disseminate relevant information to all stakeholders and meet customer expectations and business requirements.  Demonstrated behaviors should include the ability to effectively:

• Serve as a consultative resource and collaborative partner to both customers and suppliers to ensure all needs and expectations are understood and addressed
• Process PPAP submissions to enable timely new product shipments
• Handle tactical quality issues with assigned suppliers
• Review Corrective Action submissions to verify root cause analysis is complete and measures are taken to eliminate future reoccurrence
• Respond to customer inquiries in a timely, accurate and consultative manner
• Conduct supplier quality performance analysis and proactively provide insightful information to the Buyer’s desk plan and the category team
• Analyze and evaluate supplier PPM performance to provide optimal solution and/or recommendations for improvement
• Provided quality performance data as required to enable the assessment of past performance, ensure continued efficiency and identify continuous improvement opportunities

Factory Support: 

Independently, and/or in collaboration with others, exercise functional knowledge to effectively and efficiently execute business processes that ensure the support of ongoing production and supplier communications.  Passionately lead fellow employees by communicating the vision, engaging employees and empowering them to become change agents who are prepared and able to successfully lead the organization forward to embrace the future. Demonstrated behaviors should include the ability to effectively:

• Support Manufacturing by performing and/or coordinating the initial sort and/or inspection of suspect parts to maintain production goals
• Issue Corrective Actions to suppliers for identified discrepant materials to ensure suppliers are notified of the issue and root cause analysis can be completed
• Focus on people and inspire trust by not just doing things right, but by doing the right things
• Inspire and motivate people by living out the organization’s vision in their everyday business encounters
• Demonstrate Influential Leadership:
  • Incite action across the entire value stream by mastering the skills of communication and motivation tailored to an individual person
  • Create an atmosphere where people have enormous desire to follow, are fully committed to the organization’s vision, and achieve well beyond the expected goals

Process Management:

Independently, and/or in collaboration with others, exercise functional knowledge to effectively and efficiently execute business processes that ensure the absolute accuracy of system information and supplier communications.  Demonstrated behaviors should include the ability to effectively:

• Document materials rejected due to quality issue to maintain inventory accurac