WHY PATIENTS NEED YOU
The Global Supplier Quality Senior Manager provides oversight and performance management of a portfolio of raw material suppliers supporting the entire manufacturing network. The role is accountable for ensuring assigned suppliers consistently meet applicable Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) requirements, regulatory expectations, quality standards, supply commitments, and business needs, while driving continuous improvement and risk mitigation.
WHAT YOU WILL ACHIEVE
Serving as the primary Global Quality contact and subject-matter expert for the assigned supplier portfolio, the Senior Manager independently evaluates complex supplier-quality issues, establishes risk-based oversight strategies, and leads cross-functional efforts to improve supplier performance and mitigate quality and supply risks. The role applies deep technical expertise, data-driven insights, and sound judgment to make or recommend product-quality and supplier-management decisions within established authority.
As an individual contributor, the Senior Manager achieves results through technical leadership, cross-functional partnership, governance, negotiation, and influence across the global network rather than through direct reporting authority. The role partners closely with manufacturing sites, Procurement, technical functions, Regulatory Quality Assurance, and other stakeholders to strengthen supplier capability, standardize oversight, and deliver sustainable value to the business.
HOW YOU WILL ACHIEVE IT
Global Supplier Oversight
Lead cross-functional governance for a portfolio of key suppliers through the Raw Material Center of Excellence (CoE), across all regions and products, driving alignment and standardization on material and supplier selection.
Establish and maintain supplier performance frameworks, including key performance indicators, quality metrics, risk thresholds, governance routines, and escalation pathways; independently analyze performance data to identify adverse trends, systemic risks, and improvement opportunities.
Lead the evaluation and resolution of complex supplier changes, quality incidents, recurring performance issues, and other significant events in partnership with impacted sites and functions, ensuring actions are risk based, timely, and sustainable.
Prepare and present supplier performance, quality risk, mitigation status, and decision requests to the Supplier Review Board and other applicable governance forums, ensuring effective communication of material risks and actions across the network.
Supplier Qualification & Development
Develop and execute global supplier qualification strategies, including quality agreements and risk assessments, qualification requirements, monitoring plans, requalification activities, and change-management considerations.
Lead supplier re-qualification to maintain qualification status, material quality, product quality, regulatory commitments, or continuity of supply.
Develop and implement supplier improvement plans to address gaps, strengthen supplier capability, improve reliability, and reduce recurring quality or supply issues.
Risk Management
Identify and prioritize high-risk suppliers through data-driven analysis and cross-functional input, and achieve alignment on supplier risk across the network.
Lead cross-functional risk assessments and build alignment on supplier-risk classifications, mitigation priorities, acceptance criteria, oversight requirements, and escalation decisions across the manufacturing network.
Exercise independent judgment in resolving complex supplier-quality matters involving incomplete information, competing priorities, multiple sites, or differing stakeholder perspectives.
Cross-Functional Collaboration
Partner with Procurement, Technical, Site Quality and RQA to align supplier strategies with product, site, network, and business requirements.
Support new product introductions and technology transfers, material changes, and supply-network changes…