If you have spent a decade or more fixing supplier problems before they reach the production line, this is a role built for you. A partner company is hiring a Global SQE Manager to lead supplier quality worldwide, working remotely from within Europe. It is a senior leadership position with real influence over manufacturing standards, costs and customer satisfaction.
About the Role
✔ Lead the global Supplier Quality Engineering organisation and set its strategy.
✔ Make sure materials, components and services meet quality, reliability and regulatory demands.
✔ Work alongside Procurement, Engineering, Manufacturing, Operations and Customer Quality.
✔ Promote a zero-defect mindset across all supplier sites.
Career Opportunity
✔ Shape global manufacturing standards and supplier performance.
✔ Build and develop a high-performing international team.
✔ Competitive salary, performance bonus and an employee stock purchase program.
✔ Remote flexibility within Europe, health and wellness incentives, and employee resource groups.
Global SQE Manager Position Overview
This is a strategic role. You will define how supplier quality works across regions, from qualification and approval to audits, corrective actions and continuous improvement. When a critical supplier issue threatens production, you coordinate the cross-functional response and protect the customer. The goal is simple: fewer defects, fewer disruptions and a lower cost of poor quality.
Why This Role Matters
One failed component can stop a production line or trigger a costly warranty claim. A strong supplier quality leader prevents those failures upstream, which directly protects revenue, reputation and customer trust.
Key Responsibilities
What You Will Lead
- Define and improve the global supplier quality strategy in line with business goals.
- Lead and develop the global SQE team, and manage budgets and priorities.
- Run supplier qualification, approval and validation processes.
- Lead audits, capability assessments and performance reviews.
- Maintain supplier scorecards covering quality, delivery, sustainability and risk.
- Drive corrective and preventive actions and supplier development programs.
- Ensure APQP, PPAP and Safe Launch activities are properly implemented.
- Escalate and resolve critical supplier quality issues across teams.
- Use quality data and analytics to spot trends and supplier risks.
Qualifications & Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree plus 12 years of Supplier Quality Engineering experience, or a master’s degree plus 10 years.
- Experience in regulated manufacturing such as electronics, automotive, aerospace or medical.
- Proven leadership across multiple sites, regions or business units.
- Strong knowledge of audits, quality systems, CAPA and supplier development.
- Practical command of APQP, PPAP and structured problem-solving.
- Understanding of defect reduction, cost of poor quality and warranty exposure.
- Skills in ERP systems, business intelligence and data analysis.
- Excellent spoken and written English and strong change-management skills.
- Willingness to travel up to 20% and to work remotely from Europe.
About the Employer
The position is listed by Jobgether on behalf of a partner company in Germany that manages all applications and next steps. Jobgether uses an AI-assisted matching process to shortlist candidates, and the hiring team makes the final decisions. The company name is not given in the posting.
Who Should Apply
Senior supplier quality engineers, quality managers and manufacturing quality leaders with global exposure should apply. If you are comfortable managing escalations, influencing decisions across borders and leading teams you rarely meet in person, this role fits.
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