Supply Quality Manager strives to be the leader in supplier quality management and ability to scale to support Amazon Kindle’s engagement from CM (contract manufacturing to ODM (original design manufacturer). Key responsibilities include developing approved Suppliers for Mass Production of high quality parts. Manage suppliers in Mass Production to continuously produce high quality parts consistently, with improvement in yield quarter to quarter. Qualify and bring-up of new suppliers to support increased capacity and/or new programs (addressing all aspects of supplier process readiness).
This position is based in Shenzhen or Shanghai.

Responsibilities:

- To be the leader in end to end supplier quality management.
- Lead the development of new suppliers or existing suppliers of new components/sensor to support increased capacity and/or new programs. Establish process or mechanism in driving supplier improvements.
- Set up quality goals and monitor failure rate in suppliers, drive supplier to produce high quality parts consistently, with improvement in yield quarter to quarter.
- Anticipates potential problems, identifies the root cause, and resolves performance issue and problem with cross function team in NPI and MP period that affect the reliability, manufacturability, or availability of sensors.
- Work with design engineering team in project development phase and make sure material issues are monitored and timely closed.
- Develop process to early identify potential problems and improvements with design of new products, specifications, components, materials and application.
- Drive suppliers in area of failure analysis capability, including engineering resource and equipment readiness.
- Develop supplier quality engineer team and lead the team to improve quality of sensors for Amazon projects. Drive into Sub-tier suppliers for quality review and corrective actions when necessary and needed.
- Work with commodity management team to understand and highlight areas where quality and process within a specific supplier can be improved to reduce cost.
- Co-work with engineering, GCM, ops team for qualification of second or multiple sources. Review and approve request of engineering or production changes.