Job Description Summary

Job Description

Essential Responsibilities

• Lead and execute the LATAM Supplier Quality strategy, ensuring excellence in quality, delivery, compliance, and overall business competitiveness;
• Drive supplier qualification, development, and performance improvement across key metrics, including DPPM, SCARs, NCRs, SDRs, CoPQ, and NPI readiness, ensuring supplier accountability for Quality and OTD;
• Plan and conduct supplier audits, ensuring compliance with QMS, regulatory, and customer requirements, and support internal and external audit readiness.
• Lead structured problem-solving and continuous improvement initiatives (RCA, corrective actions, Lean events, process capability and industrial excellence);
• Partner cross-functionally with Sourcing, Manufacturing, Engineering, Product Management, and Operations, including new supplier and product qualification activities;
• Build, lead, and develop the Supplier Quality and Incoming Inspection teams, managing resources, priorities, budgets, and internal/external stakeholder engagement.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering (Industrial, Production, Mechanical, Electrical, Metallurgical, or related disciplines);
• Solid experience in Supplier Quality, Quality, Supply Chain, or Manufacturing, preferably in an industrial environment;
• Fluent in English and Portuguese, both written and verbal;
• Proven experience leading teams and influencing in a matrix, regional, or global environment;
• Strong expertise in quality systems, supplier audits, continuous improvement, Lean, and supplier performance management;
• Willingness to travel up to 30% domestically and internationally.

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