Job Description:

Job Description

At Milwaukee Tool, we are committed to driving innovation, operational excellence, and continuous growth. We are seeking a Supplier Development Analyst to strengthen our strategic supplier network by developing manufacturing capabilities, improving supplier performance, and ensuring long-term supplier readiness to support business growth.

This role serves as the key liaison between Procurement, Supplier Quality, Engineering, Operations, Supply Planning, and suppliers, leading cross-functional initiatives that improve supplier capability, capacity, quality, and delivery performance.

Key Responsibilities

- Assess supplier manufacturing capability, capacity, and operational maturity.

- Validate supplier readiness for new product launches and engineering changes.

- Identify manufacturing constraints and develop supplier capability roadmaps.

- Lead supplier recovery and performance improvement initiatives.

- Drive sustainable corrective actions and verify implementation effectiveness.

- Improve supplier delivery, quality, and productivity performance.

- Evaluate supplier capacity against future business demand.

- Identify bottlenecks and support supplier expansion and localization activities.

- Lead cross-functional collaboration across Procurement, SQE, Engineering, Operations,



Supply Planning, and suppliers.

- Assess supplier risks related to capacity, quality, delivery, and business continuity, and develop mitigation plans.

Minimum Qualifications

- Bachelor's degree in industrial, Mechanical, Manufacturing, Chemical Engineering, or a related engineering discipline.

- 3–5 years of relevant manufacturing, supplier development, operations, quality, or engineering experience.

- Advanced English proficiency.

- Strong analytical, problem-solving, project management, and cross-functional leadership skills.

Preferred Qualifications

- Lean Six Sigma Green Belt or Black Belt certification.

- Experience working with contract manufacturers.

- Experience leading cross-functional continuous improvement projects.

Key Skills

- Manufacturing process knowledge (metals, plastics, electronics, machining, assembly, packaging)

- Lean Manufacturing

- Value Stream Mapping

- Root Cause Analysis

- Risk Analysis & Mitigation

- Operational Excellence

- Power BI and Excel

- Statistical Analysis

- Cost Analysis

- Strategic Thinking

- Influencing Skills

- Change Management

- Strong Ownership Mindset

- Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment

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📌 Supplier Development Analyst (Torreón)
🏢 Milwaukee Tool
📍 Torreón