Husqvarna Group is a world leading producer of outdoor power products including chainsaws, trimmers, robotic lawn mowers and garden tractors. The Group is also the European leader in garden watering products and a world leader in cutting equipment and diamond tools for the construction and stone industries. The Group’s products and solutions are sold under brands including Husqvarna, Gardena, McCulloch, Poulan Pro, Weed Eater, Flymo, Zenoah and Diamant Boart via dealers and retailers to end-customers in more than 100 countries. Net sales in 2014 amounted to SEK 33 billion, and the Group had more than 14,000 employees in 40 countries.
Your future challenge
Husqvarna customers have the highest quality expectation on Husqvarna products. The quality mindset is therefore key within Husqvarna organization as well as within the supplier base. The challenge for the Sourcing organization is to secure this mindset in the supplier base and to assure robust quality performance from all suppliers delivering into Husqvarna plants worldwide.
Your team
The SQA Commodity Analyst will work within the Supplier Quality Assurance team (SQA), which belongs to Sourcing within Husqvarna Business Division.
Key focus for the department is to protect its customers, both end user and factories, from poor quality caused by suppliers. Key is also to develop and improve suppliers quality performance.
Your role
The SQA Commodity Engineer is responsible for supplier quality assurance, development and integration for suppliers in the commodity and the region. The SQA Commodity Engineer is mainly working to prevent supplier issues on supplier site by developing supplier quality performance.
Supplier Audits, Supplier quality development, problem solving (8D), quality assurance by APQP/PPAP are all parts of the daily work.
The position means constant contact and interaction with internal and external stakeholders and frequent traveling to supplier sites.
Your background, skills and experience
- Fluent English
- Take personal leadership & work independently, also with high integrity
- Are driven, customer focused and acts with high sense of urgency in serving the customer.
- Have strong ability to lead and influence as informal leader
- Have excellent communicational skills both orally & written
- Have excellent planning & organizational skills
- Are analytical, data driven and works fact based
- Have university degree in engineering or other relevant discipline
- Have more than five years of relevant work experience