Job Description

Position Summary

DGM Quality Assurance is responsible for leading the organization's quality management system, driving continuous improvement initiatives, ensuring product and process compliance, and developing robust supplier and manufacturing quality programs. The role oversees quality assurance activities across the entire product lifecycle, ensuring customer satisfaction, regulatory compliance, operational excellence, and supplier quality performance.

Key Responsibilities

Quality Leadership & Strategy
- Develop and execute the quality assurance strategy aligned with business objectives.
- Lead the implementation and continuous improvement of Quality Management Systems (QMS).
- Establish quality policies, standards, procedures, and governance frameworks.
- Drive a culture of quality, operational excellence, and customer-centricity across the organization.
- Serve as the quality authority for internal and external stakeholders.

Supplier Quality Management
- Develop and manage supplier quality assurance programs.




- Monitor supplier quality performance through KPIs, scorecards, audits, and improvement initiatives.
- Lead supplier qualification, onboarding, and requalification processes.
- Drive corrective and preventive actions (CAPA) with suppliers using structured problem-solving methodologies such as 8D, RCA, and FMEA.
- Conduct supplier audits and ensure compliance with quality and regulatory requirements.

Product & Process Quality
- Ensure product quality throughout design, manufacturing, and delivery stages.
- Lead quality planning activities including process validation, risk assessments, PFMEA, and control plans.
- Establish incoming, in-process, and final inspection strategies.
- Drive defect reduction, scrap reduction, and process capability improvement initiatives.
- Support current product introduction (NPI) and product qualification activities.

Compliance & Audit Management
- Ensure compliance with ISO 9001, ISO 14001, IATF 16949, AS

📌 DGM Supplier Quality (Hyderabad)
🏢 Schneider Electric
📍 Hyderabad