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Vice President, Quality
Global Electrical Products Manufacturer
Position Summary
The Vice President, Quality will report to the Chief Supply Chain Officer and be accountable for enterprise quality performance across the full value chain, including customer escapes, cost of poor quality, first-pass yield, supplier quality, warranty, reliability and launch quality. They will partner closely with segment presidents and leaders across operations, engineering, product management, sourcing, digital, commercial, finance and legal to build quality into business decisions. Enterprise impact areas include moving the quality organization from a reactive, inspection-based model to one focused on prevention and built-in quality. The executive will also elevate new product quality and launch readiness, advance digital quality capabilities such as predictive analytics and AI-enabled risk detection and build the talent and operating model the company needs as it continues to grow in scale and complexity.
The ideal candidate will bring 15+ years of quality, operations, engineering or supply chain leadership experience in a global manufacturing environment, including significant leadership of multi-site or enterprise quality functions. They will have led a quality transformation that delivered measurable improvement in customer escapes, cost of poor quality, supplier quality, warranty and launch quality. The ideal candidate will also have deep experience in new product quality, design and process validation, reliability engineering and digital quality tools such as eQMS and quality analytics. This candidate will be a hands-on, practical leader with strong executive presence, comfortable both in the boardroom and on the plant floor, who can lead change across a complex, matrixed, global organization.
