Vice President Global Manufacturing Quality

Vice President of Global Manufacturing Quality

Retained Search: Global Scope, Resilient Leadership, & Quality Manufacturing Experience Required

If you are hands-on leader who has a track record of thriving when all heck is breaking loose, then read more. Our Medical Device client, with over $8B sales and owns 65% of its market, and continues to lead innovation of Minimally Invasive Surgical instruments. However, to stay on top, it needs to RADICALLY transform its Global Business Processes, Quality culture and staid mindset.

Our client presents a highly visible career-making opportunity, as it seeks a proven VP Quality Assurance who as a member of the Executive Management team, will leverage business acumen, technical expertise and leadership in support of multiple manufacturing plants, globally. In partnership with Operations, you will be the tip of the spear to drive cultural change, compliance readiness and the introduction of World Class Quality initiatives & and tools. Hustling to beat aggressive timelines, you will help lead FDA remediation while ensuring manufacturing processes of complex instruments are compliant to company compliance standards & objectives.

Ideal candidates should demonstrate their passion to prevail through cultural resistance and external roadblocks that may impede success. Your technical expertise and adept understanding of global regulatory landscape is essential. You must have QA management experience on the floor and across multiple plants, with a global footprint. Your track record of building teams and optimizing best QMS practices on the floor will pay dividends as you will help identify product failures and provide solutions. Prior VP QA experience, within a turnaround or acquisition environment is necessary to establish credibility. To lead growth, and a pathway to the future, front room FDA remediation experience is required.

Requirements:

• Fluency of working with complex instruments, preferred; medical devices, a must
• Implement and measure quality systems and metrics
• Application of Advanced Quality tools and QMS experience, within a plant
• Management track record of leading team performance and remediation
• Lead congruence across multiple time zones; and to be on the floor, travel 50% globally
• Energized engagement to excel in a highly visible; fast-paced environment
• Proven communication skills that generate results in various global cultures

If you are driven to resolve challenges, embrace transformation, and refuse to settle for the status quo, we invite you to apply. Thank you!