Ibrahima NDIAYE

Provide senior advisory, fractional leadership, and transition management in Quality. Scope includes operational performance uplift, Safe Launch, non‑quality cost control, crisis governance, suppliers de-risking, and hands‑on problem‑solving. Deliver global support where needed. Selected achievements: Stabilised critical launches, moving from reaction to prevention across Tier‑1 programmes. Introduced performance dashboards and governance aligning plant metrics with executive KPIs. Built interim structures to sustain gains after transition.

Board member - Accountable for quality and TCS across 60+ plants; 500–800+ direct and indirect reports (regional model). Set strategy and budget to meet the Forvia Excellence System and key customer expectations. Led global plant improvement, training, and digital transformation in quality. Major achievements: - Reduced customer complaints by c.30% through targeted plant action plans and effective firewalls. - Cut non‑quality costs by c.15% year‑over‑year through prevention and robust containment. - Designed and rolled out a quality training strategy for 5,000+ employees. - Piloted and scaled AI use cases for defect detection and decision support. - Built and led Quality population rightsizing and reorganization. - Supplier quality network level up and implementation of strong chargeback process.

Board member - Progressive leadership across EMEA and Global scope covering 13 countries. Led project quality, customer resident teams, Safe Launch, and plant escalation management. Owned quality budget and performance; approved Programs gate readiness from RFQ to SOP+6. Major achievements: - Lifted customer rankings/scorecards via proactive zero‑defect strategy and Reverse FMEA. - Strengthened launch discipline (APQP/PPAP), improving time‑to‑stable‑run. - Managed warranty strategy and extraordinary expenses to protect margin. - Built and led multi‑country teams; embedded standard work across sites and customer locations. - Managed major escalations as single entry point from Japan Headquarter and from Customers seniors.

Owned customer quality and warranty management across multiple plants; ran risk assessments and containment for recalls; negotiated warranty liabilities. Major achievements: - Reduced average negotiated warranty liability from c.50% to c.10%, - Tightened recall‑readiness through Parts Recall Center processes and dealer engagement, - Managed Quality and Logistics Performance Review at Marelli Level, - Handled quality escalations and action plans between Automotive Lighting plants and Customers, - Managed Resident engineers, local Customer Quality Engineers, and the Warranty Manager, - Ensured weekly and monthly Reporting, - Supported plants for critical customer visits, - Participated to project reviews in order to share customer requirements.

- Participate to conception / drawing reviews, - Perform SOP audits, - Manage customer claims of parts before SOP, - Provide Quality training to China team for projects transfer from France to China, - Lead communication between China plant and customers, - Participate to DFMEA / PFMEA for new products.

- Lead customer claims problem solving team - Validate PCBA supplier’s PPAP (Flextronics, Magneti Marelli, Zollner, OSRAM) - Audit supplier’s process following ANFIA audit grid - Lead daily meetings and task forces teams - Train assembly line to ESD standard