P3P3 — Mid-Level Professional
Proficient
Serves as authority on supplier strategy.
What this level means
Fully competent professional; works independently on standard projects
- Scope
- Features or a sub-system end-to-end
- Autonomy
- Works independently on standard work; reviewed on the non-standard
- Complexity
- Diverse problems; adapts existing approaches
- Impact
- Project / team outcomes
- Decision rights
- Owns implementation decisions for own scope
- Leadership
- Mentors juniors informally
- Typical experience
- 3–5 yrs
What you'd do
- Develop supplier quality strategies
- Coordinate cross-functional quality initiatives
- Ensure specification and documentation accuracy
- Lead cross-functional coordination for supplier quality
- Advise on strategic supplier partnerships
- Develop and implement supplier quality strategies
- Coordinate cross-departmental quality initiatives
- Ensure high standards of supplier documentation
Skills, knowledge & tools
- Strategic planning
- Cross-functional leadership
- Data analysis
- Documentation accuracy
- Supplier relationship management
- Supplier strategy development
- Cross-functional collaboration
- Specification and documentation standards
- Quality assurance frameworks
- Strategic supplier management
- Supplier strategy expertise
- Cross-functional coordination
- Strategic Thinking
- Leadership
- Data analysis
What good looks like
- Strong data analysis skills
- IATF 16949 Lead Auditor preferred
- Experience in supplier strategy development
Common titles
Supplier Quality Assurance IIISupplier Quality Assurance 3Mid-Level Supplier Quality Assurance
Where it sits & what it pays
O*NET / SOC: 13-0000 — Business & Financial Operations Occupations(inferred · under review)
Market-pay benchmarks for this family × level are coming — JobFrame anchors pay to the family/level structure rather than the raw title.