Vaida Ko

Responsible for overall plant quality management (production and supplier quality), supply chain and purchasing.

Responsible for overall plant quality management in an automotive environment, covering QLAB, quality analysis, supplier quality, and production quality teams. Coordinated QLAB activities and quality analyses to ensure compliance with internal and customer requirements.

Led supplier quality strategy to ensure compliance with company and customer requirements. Managed supplier audits, performance monitoring, and corrective actions to drive continuous improvement.

Provided leadership and line management to the team, coordinating workloads and ensuring production/material management targets, KPIs, and quality standards are met.

Responsible for purchasing strategy and activities, ensuring optimal supplier performance and price. Developed and maintained strategic supplier relationships and managed contracts.

Ensured purchasing objectives were met in terms of timing, cost, and quality, with a strong focus on total cost reduction. Accelerated development schedules through early involvement of approved suppliers.

Responsible for ensuring purchasing targets to be achieved within time, cost and quality fields; minimizing total cost, optimizing development timeline by early integration of approved suppliers.

Managed relationships with strategic suppliers, searched for new potential suppliers, negotiated with suppliers, and led final global sourcing meetings.

Searched for new suppliers, negotiated commercial terms, analyzed offers, managed supplier contracts, placed and monitored orders, and trained staff on procurement processes.

Controlled the requirement of electronic components, orders and prices. Responsible for searching new suppliers and for registration and making credit of components.

Responsible for communication with customers, preparing proposals by searching exact components, and organizing price coordination with manufacturers.

Communicated with customers, handled orders, performed system entry, and controlled the full production process including creating manufacturing plans based on capacity.

Responsible for preparing new projects, selecting components, entering data into the QW system, and calculating material and product costs.

Master of Electronics Engineering with a focus on Telecommunications systems.

Bachelor of Electronics Engineering with a focus on Telecommunications systems.