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The Role
The role involves serving as a liaison between suppliers and Stryker, focusing on quality improvement in the supply base, assessing supplier processes, tracking supplier performance metrics, providing training and expertise at supplier locations, and supporting third-party audits. The position requires collaboration with various groups to ensure compliance with quality and regulatory standards.
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Work Flexibility: Hybrid
What you will do
- Liaison between suppliers and Stryker to drive effective continuous improvement to the supply base.
- Works with internal customers and suppliers to support supplier quality issues and provide technical support for activities related to supplier quality system assessment, performance evaluation and quality improvement projects
- Collaborates with the strategic sourcing, auditing and development groups to understand capabilities and competencies of suppliers to fulfill quality and regulatory requirements
- Assess and critique supplier processes and control documentation and drive improvement in the supplier QMS
- Support tracking and reporting of KPIs and other metrics associated with supplier performance
- Articulate detailed supplier performance results and trends to appropriate levels of management
- Propose and develop effective quality improvement plans to be implemented at appropriate suppliers
- Maintain and track completion of supplier action plans
- Provide training and problem-solving expertise at supplier locations, as needed
- Identify and execute cost reduction opportunities at suppliers
- Transfer lessons learned from the supply base to internal functions for inclusion into next generation designs
- Train, mentor and assist in the development of less experienced engineers
- Provide support in third party audits relating to supplier quality engineering deliverables
- May act as a single point of contact for Strategic Business Partners and participate in supplier reviews
- Serve as a subject matter expert, for assigned commodity; share expertise within global Stryker organization
- Additional duties, as assigned
What you need
Basic Qualifications:
- B. Eng. in a science, engineering or related discipline preferred, or equivalent years of experience
- 3+ years experience in manufacturing environment or equivalent
- Overall, 5-7 years career experience in Supplier Quality roles.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Lead Quality Auditor Qualification preferred (ISO 13485, CFR 820 or comparable standard / regulation)
- Experience in a highly regulatory environment desirable
- Basic knowledge of FMEA, validation programs and SPC processes
- Basic understanding of manufacturing processes, prints, tolerancing, statistics and project management
- Strong interpersonal skills, written, oral communication and negotiations skills
- Knowledge and understanding of US and International Medical Device Regulations
- Travel required.
Travel Percentage: 20%
The Company
What We Do
Stryker is a global leader in medical technologies and, together with its customers, is driven to make healthcare better. The company offers innovative products and services in MedSurg, Neurotechnology, Orthopaedics and Spine that help improve patient and healthcare outcomes. Alongside its customers around the world, Stryker impacts more than 130 million patients annually. More information is available at www.stryker.com.
Together with our customers, we are driven to make healthcare better.
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