Supplier Development Analyst

The Supplier Development Analyst will play a pivotal role in ensuring excellence in supplier relationships and compliance while optimizing purchasing processes. This role bridges purchasing, quality assurance, and compliance, contributing to operational efficiency, cost savings, and supplier performance improvement

• Bachelor's Degree in Supply Chain or Business required
• 3+ years of experience within supply chain, procurement, or supplier quality roles, preferably in the manufacturing, automotive, or aerospace sector
• Experience with compliance standards such as ISO 9001, IATF 16949, and ISO 14001 and reviewing customer and supplier manuals for compliance.

Saint-Gobain's innovations touch almost every major industry around the world, moving us forward, making meaningful connections, and inspiring us to go beyond the impossible. Within Mobility, our teams design and engineer critical, high-performance materials and proven solutions - most in challenging conditions and core systems that play an important part of our daily lives - as we drive to work or with family, fly on an airplane to explore the world, process samples for medical research, build a better rocket to go as far as we can in outer space; and dive deep under the sea to power our world. We are driven to collaborate with our customers and communities to improve and engineer the world of tomorrow!

Our team members recognize that we all create the environment for people to succeed, with a culture built on respect, open and honest communication, and honoring our commitments to our customers and each other. And at the heart of our culture, we've learned working together makes good ideas, great ones.

With a legacy dating back more than 350 years, Saint-Gobain offers employees the stability and security of a leading Global 500 corporation while operating like multiple small and agile start-ups, where entrepreneurial spirit, pioneering teamwork, and bold, forward-thinking ideas pave new paths.

Every team member is encouraged to develop and leverage their unique expertise and strengths to make the greatest impact on the company and our end users. At Saint-Gobain, you're empowered and equipped with countless opportunities and resources for professional development. You will find the support you need to create a vision and roadmap for your career, and make that vision a reality.

Invent yourself at Saint-Gobain Mobility, and together, we'll achieve the impossible!

Essential functions will include the following:

Purchasing and Supplier Coordination

• Contract and Documentation Management: Review and manage supplier contracts, including NDAs, Master Frame Agreements, bid waivers, and supplier charter acknowledgments.
• Supplier Assessments: Conduct supplier risk assessments, manage supplier scorecards, and evaluate supplier certifications.
• Auditing and Compliance: Coordinate supplier audits, ensuring adherence to embargoes, environmental and social responsibility, liability insurance, and industrial risk prevention protocols.
• Cost and Spend Optimization: Analyze purchasing spend and price trends, identifying cost-saving opportunities. Develop and formalize purchasing-related processes with a focus on digital transformation to elevate departmental practices to best-in-class standards.

Quality Assurance and Compliance

• Certificate and Inspection Administration: Manage Certificates of Conformity for received materials and create, monitor, and control inspection sheets.
• Supplier Quality Monitoring: Oversee supplier manuals and corrective action plans for reported issues in coordination with Quality. Participate in second-party supplier audits and safeguard supplier quality system certificates.
• Standards and Procedures: Ensure compliance with ISO 9001, IATF 16949, ISO 14001, and AS9100 standards, and client-specific requirements.
• Purchase Order Oversight: Add quality-related restrictions to purchase order notes and monitor compliance with legal and environmental requirements

Digital Transformation and Continuous Improvement

• Process Development: Develop and implement purchasing procedures emphasizing automation and digital tools. Foster a culture of continuous improvement within supplier relationships and internal operations.
• Data-Driven Insights: Use data analytics to interpret supplier performance and trigger improvements.
• Collaboration: Work closely with internal teams to align purchasing strategies with quality and environmental management systems

Saint-Gobain provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, marital status, amnesty, or status as a covered veteran in accordance with applicable federal, state and local laws. Saint-Gobain is an equal opportunity employer of individuals with disabilities and supports the hiring of veterans.