**Supplier Quality Excellence Manager - Americas** **Princeton, NJ, US** **Hybrid** **Band G** As the Supplier Quality Excellence Manager, you will drive strategic initiatives to enhance raw material integrity and supplier performance, ensuring alignment with corporate quality objectives. By fostering cross-regional collaboration, you will proactively manage high-risk suppliers, mitigating potential compliance and quality risks through rigorous assessments and audits. This role is pivotal in supporting North America Hypercare initiatives, providing swift resolution to supplier-related challenges while championing continuous improvement. With a strong focus on integrating supplier quality systems for new sites, you will work closely with procurement, operations, and quality teams to uphold excellence and drive sustainable success **Your key responsibilities** + Champion and execute regional quality initiatives related to raw materials (RM) and supplier performance, aligning with corporate quality goals. + Lead cross-regional collaboration to manage and improve performance of top focus suppliers, ensuring alignment with procurement, operations, and quality teams. + Conduct comprehensive risk assessments of suppliers and tollers, identifying potential quality and compliance risks and implementing mitigation strategies. + Plan, execute, and follow up on supplier and toller audits to ensure adherence to quality standards, regulatory requirements, and continuous improvement practices. + Provide quality oversight and support for North America (NAM) and Latin America (LAM) initiatives, ensuring rapid response and resolution of supplier-related quality escalated issues. + Collaborate with cross-functional teams to support the integration of supplier quality systems and processes for new **We bring** + A space to grow by encouraging and supporting curiosity and an open mindset; + A culture that prioritizes safety and well-being, both physically and mentally; + The opportunity to work for a company where sustainability is much more than a claim and is core to our strategy and purpose; + Barrier-free communities within our organization where every employee is equally valued and respected – regardless of their background, beliefs, or identity; + A firm belief that working together with our customers is the key to achieving great things; + An eagerness to be one team and learn from each other to bring progress to life and create a better future **You bring** + Master’s or Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Supply Chain Management, or a related field. + Minimum of 8+ years of experience in Supplier quality management, Quality Assurance or a similar role in the food – pharma industry with a bachelor’s degree. + Proven experience conducting supplier audits and implementing corrective/preventive actions (CAPA). Strong understanding of quality management systems (QMS), including GFSI or FDA requirements. + Proficiency in risk management tools such as FMEA, HACCP, or supplier scorecards. + Fluency in English, fluent in Spanish is a plus. + Flavor industry experience preferred. dsm-firmenich is fully dedicated to inclusion because when people feel engaged and empowered, their creativity and innovation drives unprecedented progress. We aim to build a workplace where opportunity really is equal, so everyone can thrive. We do not discriminate: there’s a place for everyone at dsm-firmenich. As a committed equal opportunity employer, we ensure our recruitment practices are inclusive and fair. We encourage the recruitment of a diverse workforce, representative of the communities in which we work, by using inclusive language, diverse interview panels, diversified sourcing strategies. Selection is based on qualifications, competency, experience, performance history and fit with the team to advance fair and equitable opportunity. Employment decisions are based upon job-related reasons regardless of an applicant's race, color, ethnicity, national origin, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, disability, backgrounds, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other status protected by law. We are committed to providing reasonable support for disabled applicants in our recruiting process. Should you need assistance, and are comfortable to share this, please let us know. As innovators in nutrition, health, and beauty, dsm-firmenich reinvents, manufactures, and combines vital nutrients, flavors, and fragrances for the world’s growing population to thrive. With our comprehensive range of solutions, with natural and renewable ingredients and renowned science and technology capabilities, we work to create what is essential for life, desirable for consumers, and more sustainable for the planet. dsm-firmenich is a Swiss-Dutch company, listed on the Euronext Amsterdam, with operations in almost 60 countries and revenues of more than €12 billion. With a diverse, worldwide team of nearly 30,000 employees, we bring progress to life™ every day, everywhere, for billions of people. Please note this is a direct search led by dsm-firmenich. We only accept applications from candidates, not from agencies nor subject to age