Sr SQ Mgr Strategic Supplier Management

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Job Function: Quality Job Sub Function: Supplier Quality Job Category: Professional All Job Posting Locations: Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, United States of America, Raynham, Massachusetts, United States of America, Ringaskiddy, Cork, Ireland, Warsaw, Indiana, United States of America, West Chester, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Zuchwil, Switzerland Job Description: Job Position Summary The Senior Manager, Strategic Supplier Management is a central individual contributor within the DePuy Synthes Supplier Quality organization. The role provides strategic leadership for continuous improvement & transformation portfolio execution, department-level project management office governance, and end-to-end supplier lifecycle management across the supply base. This position establishes the operating model, governance, standard work, tools, and management routines required to select, prioritize, resource, execute, and sustain Supplier Quality initiatives. The Senior Manager serves as the department’s central integration point and single source of truth for strategic programs, ensuring that priorities, dependencies, risks, resources, funding, milestones, decisions, and value realization remain visible and aligned. The role also owns or coordinates Supplier Quality governance across the supplier lifecycle—from early due diligence and selection through onboarding, qualification, monitoring, development, change management, segmentation, escalation, and planned exit. Working through influence in a global matrix organization, the Senior Manager partners with Supplier Quality, Procurement, Supply Chain, Manufacturing, Engineering, Research and Development, Regulatory Affairs, Quality Systems, Compliance, Finance, Digital, and business leaders. This role has no direct reports but leads cross-functional teams, workstream leaders, subject-matter experts, and project resources through strategic influence, technical credibility, structured governance, and data-driven decision-making. Duties & Responsibilities Continuous Improvement and Transformation Leadership Develop and maintain the Supplier Quality continuous improvement and transformation strategy, roadmap, portfolio, and multi-year deployment plan. Identify, scope, charter, and lead high-impact transformation programs aligned with patient safety, product quality, compliance, supply reliability, network strategy, productivity, and business priorities. Build compelling business cases that define the problem, current state, target state, investment requirements, resource needs, expected benefits, implementation approach, and measures of success. Establish a structured intake and prioritization process for improvement opportunities based on quality risk, compliance exposure, business value, strategic alignment, feasibility, and available capacity. Lead complex, cross-functional transformation initiatives from concept and diagnostic assessment through design, pilot, implementation, stabilization, standardization, and transition to business ownership. Apply Lean, Six Sigma, change-management, process-excellence, and structured problem-solving methods to simplify processes, eliminate non-value-added activity, reduce variation, and improve effectiveness. Drive harmonization of Supplier Quality processes, procedures, tools, roles, decision criteria, and governance across business units, sites, regions, and supplier categories. Partner with Digital, Data, Analytics, and Quality Systems teams to identify and deploy automation, workflow, dashboard, predictive-risk, and decision-support capabilities. Establish control plans, process ownership, sustainment measures, and post-implementation reviews to ensure that improvements remain effective. Promote a culture of continuous improvement, accountability, learning, and replication of successful practices across the Supplier Quality organization. Supplier Quality Project Management Office Serve as the central Supplier Quality Project Management Office lead and maintain the authoritative portfolio of departmental projects and strategic initiatives. Establish and maintain standard project-management methods, templates, stage gates, governance routines, reporting expectations, and escalation pathways. Maintain integrated roadmaps covering scope, milestones, resource demand, funding, dependencies, decisions, risks, issues, assumptions, and benefits. Lead portfolio intake, prioritization, sequencing, and periodic rebalancing in partnership with Supplier Quality leadership and cross-functional stakeholders. Coordinate project chartering, sponsorship, resource planning, funding requests, and assignment of accountable workstream leaders. Facilitate portfolio reviews, steering committees, transformation reviews, and executive governance forums. Develop concise, fact-based executive reporting that communicates portfolio health, progress, decisions, resource constraints, dependencies, and required leadership actions. Identify conflicts, gaps, duplicate efforts, and cross-program interdependencies; facilitate timely resolution and escalation. Define project health criteria and ensure consistent reporting of schedule, scope, cost, quality, compliance, resource, and value-realization performance. Coach project and workstream leaders in project planning, risk management, change control, stakeholder engagement, and effective governance. Ensure completed programs have clear ownership, documented standard work, training, controls, metrics, and transition plans before closure. Maintain a repository of charters, business cases, schedules, decisions, lessons learned, benefits, and reusable project assets. Supplier Lifecycle Governance Design, maintain, and continuously improve the Supplier Quality lifecycle governance model from supplier identification through disengagement. Define lifecycle stages, decision points, quality requirements, approval author