Steve Pugh

About Steve Pugh

Passionate leader in supplier quality, supplier development and supply chain management in automotive, biotechnology, telecommunications and construction equipment industries. Skilled in root cause analysis, continuous improvement, strategic sourcing, negotiations, supplier assessment, supplier development, supplier audits (ISO9001, ISO13485, IATF16949), GMP, contract management and international business fluent in Japanese. Strong operations professional with a focus on teamwork and cross functional collaboration.

Experience

1. Supplier Quality Manager Ii

   AFL

   Dec 2022 — Present · Duncan, SC, US

   Created, developed and manage the North American Supplier Quality Development team leading supplier quality, performance analytics, sourcing strategies, supply risk & mitigation, supplier development engineering, capacity, capability assessment and growth strategies, audits, procedures, processes, contracts and regulatory compliance in the ever changing, fast pace, high demand environment of fiber optic telecommunications. Promoted within the first year of hire.• Develop and implement supplier safe launch program reducing NPI cost & increasing quality• Overhauled supplier programs of risk management, scorecard metrics, audits, capability assessments.• Lead cross functional teams for improved sourcing strategies such as consolidation and resourcing.• Final decision maker in supplier corrective action escalation process. • compliance • Manage and lead problem solving and root cause analysis teams for day to day supplier quality issues.

Education

• Brigham Young University

  Minor, International Relations and Affairs

• Brigham Young University

  Bachelor's degree, Japanese

• Brigham Young University

  Minor, Mathematics