Quality / Supplier Quality Development Manager

Do you want to save lives? Do you want to work in a creative and innovative environment with people who want to make a difference?

To support Autoliv’s mission for Innovation development and development of Mobility Safety Solutions (MSS) Autoliv has established a new Supply Chain Management organization connected to the Global Innovation Center in Sweden. The global supply chain organization is responsible for purchasing and supplier quality activities in early product development and application projects for new business areas and markets. Furthermore, the organization provides logistics competence in early development phases and drives global process development for advanced supply chain activities to capture expanded opportunities for innovation. We are now searching for a Quality (Q) / Supplier Quality (SQ) Development Manager for the mobility safety area.


Assignments:
As Q/SQ Development Manager for MSS you will ensure development of the supply base for the mobility safety areas in line with related quality system requirements. Being the global representative for supplier quality for MSS you will promote a quality culture and a proactive involvement of supplier quality competences in product development phases for our new business areas.


Your main responsibilities:
Explore and secure quality system knowledge and compliance in new MSS Business areas.
Provide supplier quality competence in business development phases.
Ensure supplier quality validations for MSS projects.
Quality and Lean development for new MSS suppliers.
Perform relevant supplier quality audits on new MSS suppliers.
Work shoulder to shoulder with our segment responsibilities in Supplier Quality and Purchasing to ensure a sustainable and competitive supply base.
Drive quality projects and assignments within the Global Innovation Center.
Represent SQ for the mobility safety area in global networks and forums for Advanced development.



Travels will be required.


In your assignment you will work in a global context reporting to the Corporate Director for Supplier Quality in Autoliv. You will work closely together with the Global Supply Chain Innovation team located in Vårgårda Sweden headed by Autoliv Global Supply Chain Innovation Manager.

About Autoliv:
Autoliv, Inc. is the worldwide leader in automotive safety systems, and through our subsidiaries we develop, manufacture and market protective systems, such as airbags, seatbelts, steering wheels and pedestrian protection systems for all major automotive manufacturers in the world. Our products save over 30,000 lives each year and prevent ten times as many severe injuries. In Sweden we are located in Vårgårda, with a satellite office at Lindholmen, focusing on RDE activities within airbags, seatbelts and our newly established area Mobility Safety Solutions. We have strong testing capabilities with several labs and crash tracks as well as a highly automated production where we produce inflators and special products.


Qualifications for the position:
The position requires a bachelor’s degree in Engineering or other related area, as well as broad knowledge in quality system management. You have a good ability to lead and drive tasks and to collaborate with others, both in a strategic and in a project context.


Required qualifications:
Technical background.
Experience in Quality Systems, Plant Quality, Supplier Quality or other Supply Chain Management roles.
Minimum 10 years of working experience.
IATF 16949 and other industry standards.
Experience in international teamwork
Problem solving and project management.



Preferable qualifications:
Master degree in mechanical engineering



To succeed in this position, we believe that you have a strong business and diversity mindset. You are openminded and curious with a willing to explore new areas and take initiatives for improvements. With an ability to structure and organize your work you will successfully manage both strategical and operational perspectives to achieve our goals. You take overall responsibility for your work and ensure the involvement of other key competencies when required. Furthermore, you think it is fun to navigate in an area where all the structures are not yet set, and you appreciate the collaboration with your colleagues to together form effective and successful working concepts.


The role requires that you can communicate freely in English in speech and writing, and preferably as well in Swedish, and that you have a well-developed communicative ability.

Are you the candidate we are searching for? Submit your application where you describe why you are our Q/SQ Development Manager for MSS no later than 18th of December 2020.