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Vice President Quality Assurance - Manufactuing
Elkhart, Indiana · ManufacturingVice President Quality Assurance - Manufacturing
Required Experience
Required Skills
Required Experience
- 10 years in quality technical field and leadership roles in manufacturing
- 5 years of managing in an influential role as well as leadership in a people management environment.
- Bachelor degree in related field, MBA a plus
- Experience leading quality function in global consumer products or process industries
- Working knowledge and experience in Production Systems, Lean Manufacturing Deployment/Transformation
- Working knowledge Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system
- Serve as lead quality executive representing our companies manufacturing network internally and externally with focus customers, suppliers, and industry stakeholders.
- Lead team of technical service representatives and central quality assurance resources with functional responsibility for quality teams across our global manufacturing sites.
- Lead companies Quality Steering Committee process facilitating issue resolution and quality excellent across our divisional manufacturing and commercial leadership teams.
- Assess companies’ quality processes, tools, talent and operating model compared with best practices to develop a strategic road map and business case supporting our growth.
- Develop, communicate and implement a clear enterprise-wide strategic quality vision to maximize employee engagement, performance results and overall culture of quality.
- Lead quality assessment, trialing and transition program for companies’ product / customer solutions as our manufacturing capabilities become more agile, broaden and grow.
- Oversee the design, implementation and monitoring of enterprise-wide customer satisfaction measurement and initiatives to improve competitive advantage.
- Lead global teams to promote and oversee quality, accreditation programs and initiatives that are scalable to monitor the quality of care, delivery, and access.
- Lead high-level customer and supplier interactions to resolve issues, serve as independent liaison to mediate intercompany quality matters.
- Lead effort to standardize processes and procedures to meet industry standards
- Establish and implement a strategy to execute continuous improvement and structured problem-solving projects to improve product quality. Include methods of maintaining and ensuring sufficient skill levels exist where needed.
- Explore, identify, and pursue new technologies that improve effectiveness of our quality assurance and quality control systems including digital, real-time quality assurance systems.
- Attract, recruit and engage a highly motivated team with the quality function becoming a source of talent and development for future leaders across the company.
Required Skills
- Proven ability to develop and implement strategies on a global basis.
- Effective change and transformation leader
- Ability to build an effective team on a global basis.
- Excellent management, mentoring and coaching skills with the ability to effectively direct project teams and other managers.
- Global perspective and mindset
- Business and financial acumen
- Ability to build strong business relationships and work collaboratively across multiple functions and regions able to integrate diverse cross stream and cross functional teams.
- Demonstrated ability to analyze complex data and develop solutions to solve issues
- High level of expertise in quality systems and standards
- Proven experience in dealing with difficult/complex manufacturing process issues with large customers and vendors.