Product Quality Manager - Automotive Microcontrollers (f/m/div)

Do you set high standards for product quality and understand the demanding requirements of automotive customers? Are you motivated to take ownership of highly safety-critical microcontrollers used in vehicles around the world? Would you like to enable business success and customer satisfaction through excellent quality management, assurance and problem solving? Do you enjoy collaborating across functions, cultures and continents to find robust solutions? Then this position could be a great match for you.

Your role
Key responsibilities in your new role

• Plan and execute effective and efficient product qualifications, ensuring that market, customer and automotive quality requirements are fulfilled.
• Partner closely with development teams, manufacturing sites and quality organizations worldwide on all product quality management topics.
• Represent Quality Management within the assigned product segments and participate in product quality discussions with automotive customers.
• Coordinate quality-related customer inquiries and qualification documentation in close cooperation with Sales and Marketing.
• Drive continuous improvement activities that strengthen product robustness and support our zero-defect ambition.
• Take a proactive, customer-focused approach to problem solving and provide clear management communication for escalated quality topics.
• Participate in and, where required, lead international focus teams, task forces, crisis teams and risk assessments involving colleagues in Europe, Asia and the United States.
• Safeguard delivery quality and make risk-based decisions on product and production deviations affecting products in volume production.

Your profile
Qualifications and skills to help you succeed

• You hold a master's degree in a relevant technical or scientific field. Relevant disciplines include electrical engineering, microelectronics, microsystems technology, physics and chemistry.
• More than five years of quality management experience in complex projects, ideally gained in the semiconductor industry.
• Hands-on knowledge of semiconductor front-end or back-end manufacturing and a solid understanding of wafer and packaging technologies.
• A strong automotive quality mindset and a clear commitment to zero-defect principles.
• Sound knowledge of automotive quality requirements, quality management systems, processes and methods.
• Practical experience with quality and problem-solving methods such as FMEA, 8D, 5 Why and APQP, including the leadership of cross-functional 8D teams.
• Experience in the qualification of automotive microcontrollers according to relevant automotive standards, such as AEC-Q100 and Q006.
• Experience with automotive change management according to JEDEC and ZVEI guidelines.
• Proven ability to communicate complex quality topics in a structured and strategic way to internal stakeholders and external customers.
• Strong leadership skills and experience guiding international project or expert teams without relying on direct authority.
• Fluent English communication skills; Japanese and Chinese language skills are an advantage.
• Intercultural competence and the ability to collaborate effectively with global teams and customers.

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