Quality and Security Leader

• Qualifies IDEMIAs suppliers
• Conducts audits at suppliers premises to evaluate supplier quality maturity and to ensure compliance with IDEMIA and customer quality standards and business needs
• Monitors IDEMIAs suppliers performance in terms of quality on-time-delivery and respect of service-level agreements by analyzing KPIs and by conducting supplier audits
• Conducts and drives the root-cause analysis of non-quality issues or events and ensures proper corrective actions are defined and implemented by suppliers
• Ensures IDEMIA quality standards are maintained for suppliers new products or product changes
• Drives alignment between Supplier Procurement Business Partners Production Purchasing Supply Chain and Engineering teams
• Contributes to specification definition and check the suppliers ability to meet the requirements
• Develops suppliers by supporting or driving the implementation of continuous improvement activities (deployment of best practices such as Total Preventive Maintenance Lean Seven quality basics etc.)
• Inspecst quality of incoming supplies in IDEMIA premises (for team-members based in production sites)
• Validates introduction into production
• Manages segregation of non-conforming products
• Reviews problem solving report (8Ds)
• Monitors and reports relevant KPIs and may manage a team
• Conducrs most supplier quality management activities in autonomy including driving supplier continuous improvement and performance for a product line or a manufacturing or personalization site
• Conducts supplier audits and analyses the data from audits
• Coordinates and supervises eventually a team
• Requests guidance for complex cases

Qualifications:

• At least 25 years of hands-on experience in Quality Assurance Supplier Quality or Manufacturing Quality.
• Bilingual in Japanese and English (native-level Japanese preferred) with the ability to communicate effectively with local suppliers auditors and global stakeholders.
• Strong quality management expertise including hands-on experience with 8D Reporting Root Cause Analysis CAPA Lean Manufacturing Six Sigma and Kaizen; relevant certifications are highly preferred.
• Experience conducting internal and external audits and maintaining compliance with ISO standards including supplier audits quality inspections KPI monitoring and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Knowledge of security and compliance operations including physical security monitoring (CCTV) PCI audits site compliance activities and fire drills with willingness to work full onsite in Kawasaki Japan.