Supplier Quality Leader

Thales people architect solutions that are relied upon to deliver operational advantage at every decisive moment throughout the mission. Defence and armed forces customers rely on us to deliver the full range of defensive systems for land, sea, and air. From early warning, to threat neutralisation, our platforms cover all levels from very short-range systems, to extended protection across the entire battle-space including Airspace Mobility Solutions, Vehicles and Tactical Systems and Missile Defence, Optronics, and Radar.

Together we offer fantastic opportunities for committed employees to learn and develop their career with us. At Thales UK, we research, develop, and supply technology and services that impact the lives of millions of people each day to make life better, and keep us safer. We innovate across the major industries of Aerospace, Defence, Security and Space. Your health and well-being matters to us and that’s why we offer you the flexibility to do what’s important to you; whether that’s part time hours, job sharing, home working, or the ability to flex your start and finish times. Where possible, we support a working pattern that suits your lifestyle and helps you reach your ambitions.

Supplier Quality Leader

Hybrid working

Belfast

Are you an inquisitive individual that has a passion for Quality Assurance? Are you looking for your next challenge with the opportunity to work within a highly regarded team that will support with your learning and development? Then look no further…

We have a fantastic opportunity for an impactful Supplier Quality Leader to join our Integrated Airspace Protection Systems UK (IAS) team. IAS delivers coordinated end to end protection capability to the international market.

The Supplier Quality Leader (SuQL) is the dedicated Quality & Customer Satisfaction partner for the Procurement functional area. He or she improves supplier Quality performance, working closely with representatives from the Procurement functional area on cross-functional and recurring issues, from selecting suppliers to evaluating their performance.

What the role has to offer:

• Hybrid working between our Belfast site and home.

• Customer focussed/facing with plenty of variety, interacting with all areas of the business

• Exciting challenge acting as the voice of the customer

Day to day you will:

The Supplier Quality Leader proactively supports:

• Quality assessment in Supplier selection (upstream).

• Reduce non quality due to internal (Thales) issues.

• Improve Supplier Quality monitoring.

• Product/Process qualification.

• Engage with the Procurement Leadership Team & Align with their transformation plans.

• Lead Supplier Quality Improvement Plans (SQIP) for SNCD and report progress via scorecard, metrics.

• Deliver regular training to QAMs in best practices for Supply Chain Quality & Lessons Learnt from investigations.

• Support the improvement of Root Cause Analysis and Cost of Non Quality (CoNQ)

• Deploy and manage group or specific supplier audit plan

About you

The ideal candidate will possess excellent verbal and written communication skills and the ability to work collaboratively within cross-functional teams. They will be skilled at driving change by delivering high-quality presentations to senior stakeholders and have strong expertise in data analysis, problem-solving, project management, and organisational planning. Additionally, the candidate will demonstrate effective risk and opportunity management with robust mitigation strategies, strong relationship management capabilities across all business levels, and solid business acumen in supply chain, industrial operations, logistics, and manufacturing.

Benefits at Thales

We strive to create an environment where you can prioritise your wellbeing and have designed our benefits to give you the flexibility and power to do so. Our core benefits include a pension plan, private medical insurance, life assurance, income protection as well as an employee assistance programme.

In addition, our flexible benefits platform gives you the power to customise your benefits to suit your needs. You can choose to add a number of optional benefits including: healthcare cash plan, health assessments, family cover private medical insurance, buying/selling annual leave, gym membership discounts + much, much more. You can also enjoy exclusive access to our discount site!

Alongside a competitive base salary, we offer a variable compensation plan bonus, 27 days annual leave + 1 company day + UK public holidays, a Friday lunchtime finish as well as the opportunity to volunteer up to 3 days to support local charities/communities in which we work.

Thales is an equal opportunities employer and diversity and inclusion are integral to our success.

In line with Thales' Baseline Security requirements, candidates will be asked to provide evidence of identity, eligibility to work in the UK and employment and/or education history for up to three years. Some vacancies may require full Security Clearance which can require further evidence to be provided. For further details of the evidence required to apply for Baseline and Security Clearance please refer to the Defence Business Services National Security Vetting (DBS NSV) Agency.

At Thales we provide CAREERS and not only jobs. With Thales employing 80,000 employees in 68 countries our mobility policy enables thousands of employees each year to develop their careers at home and abroad, in their existing areas of expertise or by branching out into new fields. Together we believe that embracing flexibility is a smarter way of working.

Thales UK is committed to providing an inclusive and barrier-free recruitment process. We will provide reasonable adjustments and support to ensure neuro-diverse applicants or those with a disability or long-term condition can be their best during the recruitment process. To request an adjustment, if you need this job advert in an alternative format or if you have any questions about the recruitment process, please contact Resourcing Ops for mid to senior roles, or the Early Careers Team for graduate and apprentice roles.

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