Key Responsibilities

• Lead supplier quality activities for Chinese suppliers serving local and global Komax sites.
• Conduct supplier qualification, audits, and regular performance reviews.
• Ensure supplier processes are capable, stable, and aligned with Komax requirements.
• Drive root cause analysis, corrective actions, and preventive measures.
• Support new supplier onboarding, product launches, and process validation.
• Monitor supplier KPIs and report risks, trends, and improvement actions to management.
• Collaborate closely with procurement, engineering, plants, and global quality teams.
• Support the development of a best-quality and best-cost supplier base with strong supply security.

Required Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years of experience in supplier quality, quality assurance, or related manufacturing quality roles.
• Experience in a global manufacturing environment, preferably in the machinery industry with high mix low volume set up.
• Strong English language skills, both written and spoken.
• Structured, self-motivated, and independent working style.
• Willingness to travel up to 50% frequently domestically, and internationally from time to time.
• Ability to communicate in a management-appropriate and concise way.
• Strong understanding of supplier audits, quality tools, corrective action processes, and manufacturing quality systems.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Chinese suppliers in an international supply chain environment.
• Experience supporting multi-site operations across Asia, Europe, and the Americas.
• Strong cross-functional collaboration and stakeholder management skills in a matrix organization.
• Ability to balance quality, cost, lead time, and supply security.
• Familiarity with supplier development, process capability analysis, and continuous improvement.
• Strong technical understanding

Sense of Responsibility

• Maintains independence and objectivity in quality judgments—including the finding during incoming inspection and on-site audits—basing decisions on standards and evidence, not relationships, deadline pressure, or verbal explanations.
• Demonstrates rigorous and honest professional conduct during unsupervised on-site or daily work. Accurately records issues and deviations and escalates them in a timely manner.
• Takes full accountability for every supplier's quality corrective action follow-up, ensuring closure.

Personal Profile

The ideal candidate is a pragmatic and confident quality professional who can build strong supplier relationships while maintaining clear standards, accountability and integrity. The person should be comfortable working in a dynamic international environment and capable of driving measurable improvements across a strategic supplier base.