Senior Manager, Global Quality

This role specifically focuses on establishing and continuously improving the design quality framework, ensuring quality is inherently built into product designs and processes.

* Lead the quality assurance efforts for new product introductions, ensuring seamless transition from design to manufacturing, robust process capability, and superior product performance in the market.
* Establish key performance indicators (KPIs) and metrics to monitor and report on the effectiveness of quality processes and product quality monitoring.
* Champion advanced risk management methodologies (S/D/PFMEA, FTA, NUDD) throughout the entire product design and development lifecycle, ensuring proactive risk identification and mitigation.
* Collaborate with Product Development, Engineering, PMO and Operations leadership to embed quality requirements early in the design process and ensure seamless, high-quality design transfer to manufacturing.
* Direct the execute Advanced Product Quality Planning (APQP) activities, including the development and approval of Control Plans, robust Process FMEAs (PFMEA), and Measurement System Analysis (MSA) strategies.
* Ensure new products meet all defined quality and performance targets, achieving critical launch readiness milestones.
* Establish systems for comprehensive new product quality monitoring post-launch, driving effective analysis of field data (e.g., warranty, customer complaints, field failures) to identify trends and lead timely corrective actions, working with Global Reliability teams.
* Partner with Supply Chain and Supplier Quality teams to ensure supplier capabilities meet new product quality requirements, particularly for critical components and assemblies.
* Lead, manage and develop the site quality NPI teams.

* Sound quality professional with solid years in quality managing various streams of quality but focusing on New Product Development and Introduction.
* Strong personality with robust influential skills - Results driven, with a track record of tangible improvements led in previous organizations.
* Excellent leadership, communication and problem-solving skills.
* In depth knowledge of Advanced Product Quality Planning, ISO standards and processes.
* Lean Six Sigma Green Belt minimum. Black belt preferred. Sound analytical background.
* Excellent knowledge in Quality Management tools and techniques including: Requirements cascade, risk assessment, test and validation coverage, Design for Excellence (Dfx), manufacturing process qualification; establishing an overall understanding of end-to-end quality.
* Ability to manage various stakeholders to meet quality goals and aspirations.
* Ability to effectively lead, manage, train and motivate a diverse group of employees to achieve high quality levels within tight timelines and in a highly dynamic manufacturing environment.
* Good understanding of typical systems and processes; Windows, Google, Microsoft.
* Hands on.
* Ability to perform in highly agile and dynamic situations.