Quality Supplier Manager

As a Quality Supplier Manager in ASML Singapore office, you will be managing a couple of ASML key suppliers in Southeast Asia, responsible for their quality and operational performance. You work with suppliers on ensuring parts quality performance, solving both quality and technical issues, and drive process improvements, for example quality and yield improvement, process control, cycle time reduction, risk analysis and mitigation. You work closely together with the supplier team, the supplier manager, the procurement manager, engineers, etc. to drive success for the organization. The main goal of you is to secure an excellent quality of parts delivered by our suppliers on time and with the right cost to ASML.

Role and responsibilities

• Manage ASML’s suppliers towards competitive quality, and logistic performance through managing a team of logistics and quality supplier managers
  
  • Building relationships with key suppliers and managing them towards operational excellence
    
  • Member of the Asia Category Management team that drives the supplier selection process and secures longer term Quality &
    Logistics performance
    
  • Actively manage improvement programs at suppliers and their n-tiers (Cycle Time reduction, Lean, Quality/Yield Improvement projects)
    
  • Plan and execute material quality and availability from suppliers to ASML production and ASML’s customers including operational escalations to suppliers
    
  • Plan, implement and control the required capacity, buffers and flexibility at suppliers.
    
  • Manage execution of QLTC audits at critical suppliers together with ASML’s Sourcing and Development organization
    
  • Represent Operations in the handover process / transition of new products to volume phase
    
  • Ensure that the quality of the contributions of the suppliers meets the overall standard of quality for ASML products and services. Secure effective communication internal as external
    
  
  

Education and experience

• Bachelor or master degree in (Industrial) Engineering, Supply Chain Management Business Science or or 10+ years equivalent practical experience
  
• Proven line management track record in high tech, automotive, medical device, aerospace, process industry or equivalent
  
  • Operational Management of Supply chain and/or manufacturing functions in one of the above mentioned industries
    
  • Experience in building and maintaining strategic relations with suppliers
    
  • Experience in managing and coaching of professionals in a production / operations environment
    
  
  

Skills

Working at the cutting edge of tech, you’ll always have new challenges and new problems to solve – and working together is the only way to do that. You won’t work in a silo. Instead, you’ll be part of a creative, dynamic work environment where you’ll collaborate with supportive colleagues. There is always space for creative and unique points of view. You’ll have the flexibility and trust to choose how best to tackle tasks and solve problems.
To thrive in this job, you’ll need the following skills:

• Proven track records in improving supply chain processes in production environment
  
• Capable to make deep-dive analyses whilst maintaining top-level overview regarding problem &
  solutions
  
• Capable to work under pressureand cope with complex matters and tough suppliers to drive results
  
• Excellent interpersonal and teamwork skills with the ability to influence and motivate others
  
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
  
• Pro-active attitude to drive for improvement
  
• Strong analytical skills, process oriented, business sense and capability to develop vision and strategy
  
  • Excellent communication skills, interfacing and convincing on all levels.
    
  • People Development skills and leadership
    
  • Drive for solutions, result oriented, hands-on mentality.
    
  • Pro-active, act under high pressure. Thinking out of the box.