Supplier Quality Leader

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March 31, 2026 (20 days left to apply) job requisition :
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Belfast, United Kingdom Together we offer fantastic opportunities for committed employees to learn and develop their career with us. At Thales UK, we research, develop, and supply technology and services that impact the lives of millions of people each day to make life better, and keep us safer. We innovate across the major industries of Aerospace, Defence, Security and Space. Your health and well-being matters to us and that’s why we offer you the flexibility to do what’s important to you;

whether that’s part time hours, job sharing, home working, or the ability to flex your start and finish times. Where possible, we support a working pattern that suits your lifestyle and helps you reach your ambitions.
** Supplier Quality Leader
**** Hybrid working
**** Belfast
* * We have a fantastic opportunity for an impactful
** Supplier Quality Leader
** to join our Integrated Airspace Protection Systems UK (IAS) team. IAS delivers coordinated end to end protection capability to the international market.

The Supplier Quality Leader (SuQL) is the dedicated Quality & Customer Satisfaction partner for the Procurement functional area. He or she improves supplier Quality performance, working closely with representatives from the Procurement functional area on cross-functional and recurring issues, from selecting suppliers to evaluating their performance.
** What the role has to offer:
*** Hybrid working between our Belfast site and home.
* Customer focussed/facing with plenty of variety, interacting with all areas of the business
* Exciting challenge acting as the voice of the customer
** Day to day you will:
** The Supplier Quality Leader proactively supports:

- * Quality assessment in Supplier selection (upstream).
* Reduce non quality due to internal (Thales) issues.
* Improve Supplier Quality monitoring.
* Product/Process qualification.
* Engage with the Procurement Leadership Team & Align with their transformation plans.
* Lead Supplier Quality Improvement Plans (SQIP) for SNCD and report progress via scorecard, metrics.
* Deliver regular training to QAMs in best practices for Supply Chain Quality & Lessons Learnt from investigations.
* Support the improvement of Root Cause Analysis and Cost of Non Quality (CoNQ)
* Deploy and manage group or specific supplier audit plan
** About you
** The ideal candidate will possess excellent verbal and written communication skills and the ability to work collaboratively within cross-functional teams. They will be skilled at driving change by delivering high-quality presentations to senior stakeholders and have strong expertise in data analysis, problem-solving, project management, and organisational planning. Additionally, the candidate will demonstrate effective risk and opportunity management with robust mitigation strategies, strong relationship management capabilities across all business levels, and solid business acumen in supply chain, industrial operations, logistics, and manufacturing.
** Benefits at Thales
** We strive to create an environment where you can prioritise your wellbeing and have designed our benefits to give you the flexibility and power to do so.  Our core benefits include a pension plan, private medical insurance, life assurance, income protection as well as an employee assistance  addition, our flexible benefits platform gives you the power to customise your benefits to suit your needs.  

You can choose to add a number of optional benefits including: healthcare cash plan, health assessments, family cover private medical insurance, buying/selling annual leave, gym membership discounts + much, much more.  You can also enjoy exclusive access to our discount site!

Alongside a competitive base salary, we offer a variable compensation plan bonus, 27 days annual leave + 1 company day + UK public holidays, a Friday lunchtime finish as well as the opportunity to volunteer up to 3 days to support local charities/communities in which we…