Job Description

Rockwell Automation is looking for a Program Manager- Software Supplier Quality to join our team. The ideal candidate will be highly collaborative, partnering with multi-discipline teams within Rockwell & external partners to establish and drive supplier quality goals and objectives throughout the product lifecycle & post release. This position is responsible to execute, monitor, measure and improve activities related to SW Suppliers. Rockwell Automation's compliance with the Quality System Standards as well as Rockwell's purchased/embedded software product/service quality requirements for current and future product portfolio. Participates in continuous improvement activities of Rockwell Automation's software suppliers. Excellent interpersonal and leadership skills are a must to build effective working relationships with a cross-functional set of internal stakeholders as well as external partners/suppliers. You will act as subject matter expert, coaching and mentoring teams on SQA methodologies, tools, standards, and processes. This position requires a strong quality background with experience in software development and some exposure to product security.

JOB SUMMARY:
Rockwell Automation is looking for a Program Manager- Software Supplier Quality to join our team. The incumbent will be highly collaborative, partnering with multi-discipline teams within Rockwell & external partners to establish and drive supplier quality goals and objectives throughout the product lifecycle. Excellent interpersonal and leadership skills are a must to build effective working relationships with a cross-functional set of internal stakeholders as well as external partners/suppliers. You will act as subject matter expert, coaching and mentoring teams on Software Quality methodologies, tools, standards, and processes. This position requires a strong quality background with experience in software quality and some exposure to product security.

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for evaluation, qualification, and selection of software suppliers and partners. Conducts audit and assessment of software vendors and identifies continuous improvement plan where needed to ensure vendor meets our requirements.
• Review supplier's design controls for mature software development lifecycle processes including but not limited to verification, validation, risk management, software configuration management and deployment including reviews and approvals
• Partner with SW Sourcing on negotiation and execution of Quality Agreements with Software vendors and partners. Provide input & feedback to purchasing control procedures and processes as needed to stay compliant to quality system requirements and regulations.
• Participate as an extended Quality team member of new product development and sustaining teams to assure processes are in place to design, release and manage highly reliable and safe software products for third party suppliers
• Leads and facilitates failure investigations; ensuring mitigations and corrective actions are implemented in a timely manner
• Works with strategic software partners/suppliers and internal stake holders to ensure global awareness and compliance to procedures and specifications
• Ensures effective transfer of Suppliers from development to production activities
• Support post market activities related to purchased product software anomalies - Complaint Handling, RCFAs and CAPAs
• Ability to provide training to other team members to ensure consistency and compliance to processes and procedures.
• Pursues tasks with drive and a sense of urgency, and develops/implements timely actions
• Demonstrates collaborative partnerships with peers, leaders, and stakeholders.
• Able to navigate a complex matrix organization to influence partners to deliver product/process improvements
• Balances priorities and communicates well to team, stakeholders, and management.
• Maintains accountability for high quality performance throughout the software development lifecycle.
• Presents and communicates quality readout to stakeholders & leaders as required

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's in computer science, engineering with a quality emphasis, or other related technical degree
• Legal authorization to work in the US is required. We will not sponsor individuals for employment visas, now or in the future, for this job opening.

Preferred Qualifications

• Minimum of 5 years in Software Quality Management / Quality Assurance
• Minimum of 3 years as Software Supplier Quality Assurance
• Familiarity with relevant industry standards Quality, Cybersecurity, Software development (IEC 62443, ISO9001, ISO/IEC 9126)
• Proven effective communication across all organizational levels
• Strong experience in QA tools, methodologies, and continuous improvement
• Certification in LEAN, Six SIGMA tools and methodologies (i.e., Green Belt / Black Belt).
• Experience/exposure to various agile methodologies (e.g. Scrum, SAFe. Lean StartUp)
• Master of Science or MBA is a plus

TRAVEL

Up to 20% and may include global travel

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