Job Title: Supplier Customer Quality Liaison

Job Description

We are seeking an experienced Supplier-Customer Quality Liaison to provide temporary coverage for a maternity leave. This role serves as the primary customer-facing quality contact, coordinating quality issues between automotive customers and upstream suppliers. This position focuses on interpreting customer quality concerns, managing containment and material disposition, coordinating supplier corrective actions, and ensuring accurate ERP (SAP) execution.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the single point of contact for customer quality issues during the assignment.
• Receive and interpret customer quality concerns such as product failures, sorting requests, line stoppages, and nonconformances.
• Review customer documentation including photos, inspection data, portal submissions, emails, and chargebacks.
• Communicate quality issues clearly to suppliers and review supplier responses, including root cause, containment, and corrective actions.
• Interpret and validate supplier corrective actions to ensure alignment with automotive problem-solving standards, such as 8D.
• Initiate and manage containment actions, including warehouse quarantine, supplier containment, and customer-directed holds.
• Coordinate material disposition, including Return to Vendor (RTV), third-party sorting, scrap, or use as is with approval.
• Coordinate cross-functionally with Logistics, Purchasing, and Customer Service/Sales.
• Ensure all containment actions are documented and traceable to a unique quality concern or complaint reference.
• Execute or oversee SAP transactions related to quality events, such as blocked stock, RTVs, credits, scrap, and reclassification.
• Prepare and submit customer corrective action responses through portals or email systems.
• Track open actions to closure and communicate risks and escalations to management.

Essential Skills

• Automotive quality experience in a Tier 1 or Tier 2 supply chain environment.
• Direct experience managing customer-facing quality issues.
• Strong understanding of containment, nonconformance handling, and corrective action workflows.
• Experience reviewing and challenging supplier corrective action responses.
• Comfortable coordinating with multiple suppliers, preferably over 20.
• SAP experience strongly preferred, especially in quality stock handling and RTVs.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to work independently and deliver impact quickly in a temporary role.

Additional Skills & Qualifications

• Experience with fasteners or commodity hardware.
• Prior contract or consulting experience.
• Familiarity with customer quality portals and scorecards.
• Experience supporting high severity or line down customer events.

Work Environment

This role is set in a dynamic and fast-paced environment, involving coordination with various departments such as Logistics, Purchasing, and Customer Service/Sales. The position requires proficiency in using ERP systems, specifically SAP, to manage quality events. The candidate should be adaptable and capable of handling multiple suppliers and customers, ensuring effective communication and resolution of quality issues.

Job Type & Location

This is a Contract position based out of St. Louis, MO.

Pay and Benefits

The pay range for this position is $50.00 - $50.00/hr.

Eligibility requirements apply to some benefits and may depend on your job classification and length of employment. Benefits are subject to change and may be subject to specific elections, plan, or program terms. If eligible, the benefits available for this temporary role may include the following: • Medical, dental & vision • Critical Illness, Accident, and Hospital • 401(k) Retirement Plan – Pre-tax and Roth post-tax contributions available • Life Insurance (Voluntary Life & AD&D for the employee and dependents) • Short and long-term disability • Health Spending Account (HSA) • Transportation benefits • Employee Assistance Program • Time Off/Leave (PTO, Vacation or Sick Leave)

Workplace Type

This is a fully remote position.

Application Deadline

This position is anticipated to close on Mar 31, 2026.

About Aston Carter:

Aston Carter provides world-class corporate talent solutions to thousands of clients across the globe. Specialized in accounting, finance, human resources, talent acquisition, procurement, supply chain and select administrative professions, we extend the capabilities of industry-leading companies. We draw on our deep recruiting expertise and expansive network to meet the evolving needs of our clients and talent community with agility and excellence. With offices across the U.S., Canada, Asia Pacific and Europe, Aston Carter serves many of the Fortune 500. We are proud to be a ClearlyRated Best of Staffing® double diamond winner for both client and talent service.

The company is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regard to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any characteristic protected by law.

If you would like to request a reasonable accommodation, such as the modification or adjustment of the job application process or interviewing process due to a disability, please email astoncarteraccommodation@astoncarter.com for other accommodation options.