Job Description
What Supplier Quality contributes to Cardinal Health Quality develops and implements quality policies, procedures, and processes to ensure products and services comply with regulatory standards and specifications. Supplier Quality is responsible for managing external suppliers throughout the product lifecycle, including evaluating and qualifying suppliers, monitoring supplier performance, auditing supplier's quality management system to applicable regulations and quality standards, providing metrics, and addressing quality and regulatory issues. Responsibilities Develop and implement quality policies, procedures, and processes to ensure products and services comply with regulatory standards and specifications. Provide leadership to technical and administrative personnel with less experience within the Supplier Quality operations and regulatory compliance function. Develop, train and guide quality staff, and site personnel to achieve Supplier Quality goals and maintain regulatory compliance. Transferring product designs to manufacturing (Design Transfers) and Mfg. site-to-site transfers. Demonstrated knowledge with problem solving (lean six sigma problem solving, CAPA / SCAR investigations). Serves as a liaison with Design Engineering/R&D engineering, Medical Safety, Supplier Engineering, and variety of service providing functions on manufacturing and product matters. Develop strategies to continuously improve mfg. and product quality and to simplify and optimize processes to increase efficiencies and enhance productivity Contributes to or participates in regulatory, customer and corporate audits, and customer technical visits and to provide responses to findings in a timely manner. Participate in Quality Management, Quarterly Business Reviews