Principal Supplier Quality Engineer

.**What does Supplier Quality bring to Cardinal Health**Quality develops and implements quality policies, procedures, and processes to ensure products and services comply with regulatory standards and specifications.Supplier Quality is responsible for managing external suppliers throughout the product lifecycle, including evaluating and qualifying suppliers, monitoring supplier performance, auditing supplier's quality management system to applicable regulations and quality standards, providing metrics, and addressing quality and regulatory issues.**Responsibilities**- Drive the creation of a robust supplier quality lifecycle management strategy for assigned commodity or product segment beginning with initial supplier selection through retirement- Establish a process to technically assess the capabilities of suppliers in a commodity or product segment- Identify and lead assigned continuous improvement projects for either suppliers or internal cross-functional teams- Adhere to Good Manufacturing Principles (GMPs) based Quality Management Systems requirements for medical devices and medicinal products- Identify and lead implementation of preventive and corrective actions via CAPAs, audits, NCMRs, and complaint handling systems- Lead implementation of Supplier Change Requests and utilize Production Part Approval Process (PPAP)- Key contributor on NPD (New Product Development) projects, ensuring rigorous performance and APQP deliverables (CTQ, PFMEA, control plan, GRR, FAI, IQ/OQ/PQ, PPA, etc