Supplier Quality & Development Regional Manager, APAC

What you´ll do

• Spearhead and oversee the daily operations in a supplier quality & development function.  Collaborate with stakeholders to ensure that supplied products adhere to the company's quality standards and industry regulations in a consistent manner. 
• Stakeholder groups include but are not limited to SBUs and their functional teams, Procurement & Sourcing, Supplier Quality Engineers and Quality Managers at plants, Operations Networks and their Manufacturing Plants (Henkel & 3PMs) and their functional teams, Supply Chain teams, and all branches of the Global Quality functional teams.
• Lead Supplier Performance management and the realization of Supplier Complaint Reduction Programs (SCMS & CCMS reduction)
• Develop Teach Suppliers to mature in quality with alignment of Henkel’s requirements, e.g. 8D report, FRPS, SQRM
• Lead discussion with suppliers on escalation cases which are supplier related, to issue closure
• Train and support supplier complaint coordinators in the use of the SCMS system and maintenance of SCMS usage
• Extract and analyze the suppliers’ complaints report, identifying the opportunities for improvement leveraging power BI and analytical means
• Support the Supplier Quality & Development Global Team to apply the global strategy and program in the region
• Support Product Development in the selection process of new suppliers and joint development programs (3PM Suppliers)
• Ensure 3PM suppliers have relevant quality certifications and support on customer required certificates by SQD auditor’s having the accredited qualification
• Support and facilitate Customer Audits of 3PM Suppliers
• Communicate Customer Requirements to Suppliers and ensureimplementation
• Conduct Audit Plan in the region by audit activities and auditor’s tasks (as reports and DB update)
• Creation and revision of relevant quality documents in HIMDOC/ REMAP databases.
• Support the internal audit and external audit such as DQS and customer audits.
• Support MOC Process for Raw/Packaging/3PMprojects as defined in the procedure
• Conducting vendor assessment and supplier surveillance audits.
• Business travel (20% of time) to facilitate supplier visits / audits / development activities etc
• Conduct internal & external benchmarking/research and assessments to determine opportunities to improve Quality culture for supply base
• Championing SQ&D Process Excellence & Digitalization