Director of Supplier Quality – CEMA

You don’t see it, but it’s there. Our employees work on the world’s most advanced electronics – from saving emissions in the City of Lights to powering the Mars Rover to protecting the F-35 fighter jet. At Electronic Systems, you’ll be among the brightest minds, working on the aerospace and defense industry’s most difficult problems. Drawing strength from our differences, we’re innovating for the future. And you can, too. We put our customers first – exemplified by our missions: “We Protect Those Who Protect Us®” and “We Innovate For Those Who Move The World.” Sound like a team you want to be a part of? Come build your career with BAE Systems. Our flexible work environment provides you a chance to change the world without giving up your personal life. Nashua New Hampshire is an hour northwest of Boston with all the cultural offerings and professional sports team of city life, and less than two hours from skiing and the New Hampshire Seacoast. The Successful Candidate BAE Systems is seeking a Director of Supplier Quality – CEMA, who will report to the Business Area Director of Quality for CEMA and dotted line to the Senior Director of Supplier Quality. This role will be accountable for developing, maintaining, and optimizing the CEMA Business Supplier Quality Assurance strategy & program to reduce risk and ensure world class product and process quality and delivery from the supply base. You will need to build strong relationships with the business leaders, programs, supplier partnerships, and program quality functions to understand and translate requirements and risks into a robust supplier quality plan that prevents disruptions and customer defects. In support of your Supplier Quality business strategy, you will closely partner with the core teams of the Supplier Quality function (Category and Operations leads), to ensure the supply base is assessed, qualified, and consistently delivering a quality product. This role will be the Command and Control of supplier quality in the business and the voice of the business within the supplier quality function. This individual must be a self-starting leader who can effectively partner with multiple functional organizations internally (BAE Electronic Systems) and externally (Supply Base) for success.