The Supplier Development Specialist is responsible for improving supply chain stability in terms of Delivery, Quality and Sustainability.

The incumbent will be responsible for a select group of parts suppliers, with a mission to evaluate those suppliers’ production Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) or production efficiencies and to propose measures to increase throughput and efficiency. These measures may be either proactive or reactive in nature, but will overall serve to improve the supply security of Volkswagen’s production requirements.

Main responsibility – 85%

• Participation in standing Steering Committee for Supplier Development, representing results of assigned suppliers
• Conduct on-site supplier assessments, evaluation of production efficiencies, and management of critical supply situations
• Coordination of supplier assessment visits and field deployment schedule and cross-functional support members from QA, Logistics, R&D, Commodity Purchasing
• Leading onsite risk assessment at supplier locations as VWGoA representative
• Review and critical feedback of assessment findings
• Shaping and proposing corrective measures and related timing plan for resolution
• Defining follow-up measures from risk assessment
• Coordination of supplier management escalation meetings (onsite and remote)
• Determine additional measures, escalation chain, executive involvement, extended deployment, etc.
• Monitoring improvement plans and KPIs to determine exit criteria for field deployments at suppliers
• Reporting KPI dashboard of Production Stability Index to senior management at VWGoA and CHA LLC

Additional responsibilities – 15%

• Work collaboratively with suppliers’ management team to propose and implement long-term production improvement measures
• Analyze the costs to implement measures, agree upon cost sharing and cost savings sharing between Volkswagen and the supplier
• Present implementation planning to Volkswagen and supplier top management