Supplier Manager

Company Overview: Flowserve is a global manufacturer of pumps, valves, seals, and aftermarket services, delivering comprehensive flow control solutions that support essential industries such as energy, clean water, and pharmaceuticals. If you're looking for a culture built on ingenuity, innovation, and excellence, Flowserve offers the opportunity to put your experience in motion. Whether you're an individual contributor or a people leader, you'll find meaningful opportunities for professional growth, competitive rewards, and a workplace grounded in our core values: People, Safety, Integrity, Ownership and Ingenuity. At Flowserve, we're inspired by what we can achieve together—creating extraordinary flow control solutions that strengthen today's world while building tomorrow. **Supplier Manager** **Role Summary** The Supplier Manager is responsible for owning and strengthening supplier performance, capability, capacity, quality, cost competitiveness, delivery reliability, and compliance across assigned commodity categories. The role leads supplier-management activities from supplier identification and onboarding through qualification, performance improvement, risk mitigation, and long-term relationship management. Working closely with Procurement, Quality, Engineering, Manufacturing, Product Development, and Category Management teams, this position ensures suppliers support operational, quality, cost, sustainability, and supply-continuity objectives. Preference will be given to candidates from a Global MNC in the motors manufacturing industry, with motors commodity experience and exposure to PPAP, Lean, and Six Sigma. **Key Responsibilities** **Supplier Management and Performance Ownership** + Own supplier performance for assigned commodities across quality, delivery, cost, capacity, technical capability, responsiveness, and compliance; establish supplier scorecards, KPIs, performance expectations, review mechanisms, and structured improvement plans. + Build strong relationships with strategic, critical, and high-risk suppliers; act as the primary escalation point for supplier performance, quality, capacity, delivery, and compliance issues. + Partner with Procurement and Category Management on sourcing strategies, supplier segmentation, supplier selection, localization, globalization, supplier rationalization, and supplier performance recovery. **Supplier Qualification and Onboarding** + Lead supplier onboarding, qualification, capability development, and approval activities for new and existing suppliers, including assessment of manufacturing capability, process controls, capacity, quality systems, certifications, and readiness. + Conduct supplier assessments, audits, capability evaluations, and PPAP reviews to support new supplier approvals and onboarding. + Support supplier readiness for new-product introductions, Product Development Lifecycle activities, localization projects, strategic sourcing initiatives, first-article sample reviews, process validation, and approval documentation. **Supplier Quality and Process Excellence** + Lead supplier-quality improvement initiatives to improve product quality, reduce defects, improve delivery performance, strengthen process capability, and reduce the cost of poor quality. + Drive structured root-cause analysis, corrective and preventive actions, closure of supplier non-conformances, and resolution of recurring quality, manufacturing-process, capacity, and delivery issues. + Well versed in Production Part Approval Process (PPAP). Apply Lean, Six Sigma, or similar continuous-improvement methodologies to drive supplier process improvement, waste reduction, variation reduction, and measurable performance improvement. **Supplier Risk and Supply Continuity** + Identify, assess, and mitigate supplier risks related to quality, delivery, capacity, financial stability, regulatory compliance, business continuity, and supply-chain resilience. + Support contingency planning, dual sourcing, supplier-capacity development, and recovery activities for critical suppliers. + Maintain visibility of supplier-risk and performance trends and provide supplier capability, risk, quality, capacity, and process-readiness input to internal stakeholders. **Required Qualifications** + Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Supply Chain, Business, Manufacturing, or a related discipline. + Minimum 10 years of experience in supplier management, supplier development, supplier quality, procurement, strategic sourcing, manufacturing, or a related field. + Demonstrated experience managing supplier performance across quality, delivery, cost, capacity, and compliance measures. + Experience leading supplier assessments, audits, capability evaluations, qualification activities, onboarding, and improvement projects. + Strong communication, negotiation, stakeholder-management, supplier-relationship-management, Production Part Approval Process (PPAP), corrective-action, supplier-risk-management, and continuous-improvement skills; ability to travel to supplier locations as required. **Preferred Qualifications** + Experience working in a Global MNC within the motors manufacturing industry, including direct experience managing motors commodities, motor components, electrical components, mechanical parts, assemblies, or related supplier categories. + Strong experience in Production Part Approval Process (PPAP), supplier process validation, first-article approval, supplier onboarding, and manufacturing-process controls. + Lean Six Sigma Green Belt or Black Belt certification, or demonstrated application of Lean, Six Sigma, Kaizen, 8D, CAPA, ISO standards, supplier quality systems, and regulatory/customer compliance requirements. \#LI-DK1 **Req ID** : R-21161 **Job Family Group** : Supply Chain **Job Family** : SC Category Management EOE including Disability/Protected Veterans. 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