Flex is a leading sketch-to-scale™ solutions company that designs and builds intelligent products for a connected world. With more than 200,000 professionals across 30 countries and a promise to help make the world Live Smarter™, the company provides innovative design, engineering, manufacturing, real-time supply chain insight and logistics services to companies of all sizes in various industries and end-markets. For more information please visit our careers page at www.flex.com. 

• Industry: Electrical / Electronic Manufacturing
• Type: Public Company
• NASDAQ: FLEX
• Headquarters: 2 Changi South Lane, Singapore, 486123
• Company Size: 10,001+ employees
• Website: www.flex.com

Job Description

The Vice President of Quality will be based in Farmington Hills, MI but will require 50-60% travel both domestic and international. Reporting directly to the global President of Flex Automotive, the Vice President of Quality will provide effective leadership direction and professional expertise aligning the global quality function to meet customer requirements by instilling an entrepreneurial and pro-active quality mind-set and culture in the entire organization while implementing state-of-the-art methodologies and approaches. This executive will be a strategic business partner to the President and an integral member of the senior leadership team that establishes the strategic goals and objectives on behalf of the global automotive segment.

We are looking for someone who demonstrates:

• Intense collaboration
• Passionate customer focus
• Thoughtful, fast, disciplined execution
• Tenacious commitment to continuous improvement
• Relentless drive to win

Here is a glimpse of what you’ll do:

• Establishing and fostering a customer focused, performance based corporate quality governance function that continues to build Flex’ reputation for delivering automotive electronics and assemblies at unrivalled quality and competitive cost
• Defining and implementing a “Quality First/Zero Defect” strategy and culture with clear accountability and ownership
• Upgrade the quality tools, standards and procedures to the “state-of-the-art” level of the automotive industry
• Quickly define improvement requirements to drive quality across the company, strongly interacting and collaborating with the operative BUs and functions
• Set up corporate wide quality competence and training programs
• Develop and disseminate relevant KPIs to be managed and tracked and ensure customer scorecards achieve perfect quality
• Push for a continuous improvement and learning culture and guarantee toughness in compliance with quality standards – in the quality but also in operations.
• The success of this position will be measured along the standard quality metrics like ppm/cpm, cost of poor quality, customer ratings/scorecards, etc., but also with KPIs related to problem resolution processes as well as respective indicators to systematically cover new product projects (successful PPAP).

Here is some of what you’ll need (required):

• The ideal candidate will have a minimum of 15+ years of broad-based automotive quality experience with increasing levels of responsibility.
• Must have prior experience in Automotive working for an OEM; combination of OEM and Tier 1 experience highly preferred
• The VP, Quality must have proven leadership ability with a track record of building highly functioning teams that effectively partner with the other functional areas of the company
• The candidate should have multinational or global quality management experience.
• Candidates must be organizationally and culturally agile with the ability to work in a large, complex, matrix organization.  The Flex structure differs from the traditional pure-automotive Tier I’s in that the company competes in many other segments outside of automotive. 
• Must have knowledge of vehicle electrical architecture within automotive and within a variety of technology driven product areas

Here are a few of our preferred experiences:

• Candidates must have the ability to define the long-term technology strategy as a member of the senior leadership team, while also addressing the hands-on tactical needs of the business at all levels.
• The VP, Quality will be described as a proactive, ethical, high energy, hands-on manager, who excels in a fast paced, team-oriented matrix environment.  He/she will have the well-developed interpersonal skills necessary to function across all levels of the organization as well as with external entities.
• Candidates will have a demonstrated ability to apply an analytical, process-driven approach to include appropriate KPI’s, in order to be proactive in all quality matters globally.

Here are a few examples of what you’ll get for the great work you provide:

• Full range of medical benefits, dental, vision
• Life Insurance
• Matching 401K
• PTO
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Employee discounts at local retailers

Job Category

Quality

Flex does not accept unsolicited resumes from headhunters, recruitment agencies or fee based recruitment services. Flex is an Equal Opportunity Employer and employment selection decisions are based on merit, qualifications, and abilities. Flex does not discriminate in employment opportunities or practices on the basis of: age, race, religion, color, sex, national origin, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran status, disability, pregnancy status or any other status protected by law. Flex provides reasonable accommodation so that qualified applicants with a disability may participate in the selection process. Please advise us of any accommodations you request in order to express interest in a position by e-mailing: accesibility@flextronics.com. Please state your request for assistance in your message. Only reasonable accommodation requests related to applying for a specific position within Flex will be reviewed at the e-mail address. Flex will contact you if it is determined that your background is a match to the required skills required for this position. Thank you for considering a career with Flex.

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