Supplier Performance Manager

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Your role

We are looking for a Supplier Performance Manager responsible for supplier quality and supplier development within Procurement, Saab Aeronautics. Your main tasks are to secure quality and delivery performance from suppliers to our products such as Gripen, through close collaboration with international suppliers and cross-functional Saab Supplier Teams.

You will work closely with the Saab Sourcing and Supply Managers to support strategies and targets concerning quality, delivery and business relationships for the suppliers under your responsibility. You collaborate with Saab's design engineers to ensure you have a good understanding of the complexity of parts and components and their relevant production processes. You have a good dialogue with Saab's production representatives linked to purchased material and supplier deviations.

Externally you will also:

* Act as an important link between Saab and suppliers with the mission to assure that suppliers understand Saab's technical and general requirements and have the ability to meet them.
* Work proactively with suppliers to secure and improve quality and delivery performance and prevent deviations from occurring.
* Evaluate suppliers' processes with focus on planning, production and risk management, to ensure that suppliers have the capability and capacity to meet Saab's demands and expectations.
* Support suppliers in identifying risks and improvement potential as input to risk elimination and continuous improvements and support in short term deviation handling, root cause analyses and implementation of corrective actions.

Since you will frequently visit suppliers in different countries, you enjoy travelling for work.

Your profile

To succeed in this mission, you are a team player with strong collaboration and communication skills. You are analytic and can make connections between a series of deviations and larger, underlying problems. You have an eye for details as well as the ability to see the big picture.You are flexible and take large own responsibility in planning and completing activities and tasks. You enjoy working in an international environment and are comfortable in both production areas and management meeting contexts.

Required skills

* You are an engineer or have equivalent work experience from positions in technical/production organizations.
* Interest in & experience from production, design, quality or procurement
* You have the skill to build and develop long-term business relationships, creating engagement and transparency and yet being encouraging, challenging and enduring in your mission to support suppliers in their process development and improvement work.
* Excellent communication skills in Swedish and English

Desired skills

* Knowledge from supplier quality assurance / supplier development
* Knowledge in production processes, procurement and purchasing
* Knowledge in quality tools

This position requires that you pass a security vetting based on the current regulations around/of security protection. For positions requiring security clearance additional obligations on citizenship may apply.

What you will be a part of

You will be part of a dynamic team of Supplier Performance Managers and Supplier Quality Managers, organized under Procurement. Behind our innovations stand the people who make them possible. Brave pioneers and curious minds. Everyday heroes and inventive troubleshooters. Those who share deep knowledge and those who explore sky-high. And everyone in between. Joining us means making an impact together, contributing in our own unique ways. From crafting complex code and building impressive defence and security solutions to simply sharing a coffee with a colleague, every action counts. We encourage you to take on challenges, to create smart inventions and grow in our friendly and tech-savvy workspace. We have a solid mission to keep people and society safe.

Saab is a leading defence and security company with an enduring mission, to help nations keep their people and society safe. Empowered by its 22,000 talented people, Saab constantly pushes the boundaries of technology to create a safer and more sustainable world.

Saab designs, manufactures and maintains advanced systems in aeronautics, weapons, command and control, sensors and underwater systems. Saab is headquartered in Sweden. It has major operations all over the world and is part of the domestic defence capability of several nations. Read more about us here

Kindly observe that this is an ongoing recruitment process and that the position might be filled before the closing date of the advertisement.