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Your role
We are looking for a Supplier Quality Manager responsible to ensure and maintain high supplier quality within Procurement, Saab Aeronautics. If you have a genuine technical interest and enjoy working in an international environment together with our supplier base, we can offer an interesting position.
Your main task is to investigate and coordinate deviations and quality issues to ensure that the supplier base is providing quality products to mainly Gripen, through close collaboration with international suppliers and cross-functional Saab Supplier Teams.
You work closely with the Saab Sourcing and Supply Managers to support strategies and targets concerning quality. Whitin the quality assurance process you receive, validate, create, follow up and analyze quality remarks. You are also responsible for creating control plans for Saab’s receiving inspection. You have a close collaboration and dialogue with Saab’s design engineers, production representatives and quality department who are linked to purchased material and supplier deviations. You act as an important link between Saab and suppliers with the mission to assure that suppliers deliver products with high quality.
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 bigger picture. You are motivated to continuously streamlining and improving the business. At the same time, you enjoy working in a process-driven organization and have a deep understanding for work processes and their importance.
You are flexible and take great personal responsibility in planning and implementing activities and tasks. You enjoy working in an international environment and are comfortable in both production areas and management meeting contexts.
Required skills
Interest in & experience from production, design, quality or procurement
Excellent collaboration, analysis and communication skills both in Swedish and English
Driven and independent in your way of working
Desired skills
Master or Bachelor of Science or other technical education
Knowledge from supplier quality assurance and quality tools
Knowledge in production processes
Knowledge in procurement / sourcing / purchasing
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.
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Saab is a leading defence and security company with an enduring mission, to help nations keep their people and society safe. Empowered by its 26,000 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
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Kindly observe that this is an ongoing recruitment process and that the position might be filled before the closing date of the advertisement.