Manager Supplier Quality (m/f/d) (Quality Manager)

Hays Professional Solutions GmbH Standort NürnbergBayern, BayreuthEURESpublished 08/10/2026
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Your benefits:

  • Responsible role in international development projects
  • High degree of creative freedom and short decision-making paths
  • Collaboration with global teams and suppliers
  • Attractive working environment with development perspectives

Your tasks:

  • Conducting supplier audits and potential analyses
  • Monitoring supplier performance as well as conducting Supplier Ratings
  • Controlling and tracking complaints, 8D processes, and corrective actions
  • Development and qualification of suppliers regarding quality standards and processes
  • Ensuring cost recovery for supplier-caused quality problems
  • Training and coaching of suppliers and internal stakeholders in quality and problem-solving methods
  • Creation of quality reports and presentations for management
  • Participation in the digitalization of Supplier-Quality processes

Your qualifications:

  • Technical degree or comparable qualification
  • Sound professional experience in Supplier Quality or quality management
  • Experience with supplier audits and supplier development
  • Knowledge of 8D, PPS, QRQC as well as relevant quality standards (e.g., ISO 9001, VDA, IATF)
  • Strong communication skills, analytical way of working, and assertiveness
  • Very good English skills
  • Willingness to travel to international supplier locations
  • Ideally VDA 6.3 Auditor certification

About Hays:

With our many years of recruitment experience and our knowledge of the labor market, we offer specialists and managers a strong partnership. Because through our intensive relationships across all industrial sectors, we provide talents with exciting tasks and attractive positions. Whether in an international corporation or at a regional market leader: entirely according to your interests and depending on your experience. With us, you will find the right environment - and completely free of charge. Register and benefit from interesting and suitable positions and projects.

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