Role Purpose
Act as the chief architect and steward of our clinet quality policy and Quality Management System, integrating quality with operational flow across the full value chain, from customer order intake to finished goods dispatch.
Ensure that the QMS remains coherent, effective and continuously evolving, while enabling process owners to build quality into daily operations. This is a company-wide Quality Assurance leadership role, extending beyond traditional Quality Control and connecting prevention, flow performance, compliance and evidence-based improvement across the organization.
Key Responsibilities
· Own, govern and develop the QMS across all functions, defining standards, verifying effectiveness and escalating material quality or compliance risks.
· Adapt quality policy and risk-based controls to the MTO / HMLV environment, protecting quality at the source without constraining flow.
· Implement and promote World Class Manufacturing (WCM) principles, standards, and tools.
· Keep accountability with process owners while providing governance, methods, assurance, and capability in prevention and structured problem solving.
· Lead evidence-based improvement, using appropriate Operational Excellence methods, meaningful indicators, and Management of Change practices.
· Own and continuously develop ISO and other relevant certifications, ensuring compliance and organizational readiness.
Candidate Profile
· Proven Quality Assurance, Quality Management or QMS ownership experience in a demanding manufacturing environment.
· Experience with WCM, Lean or comparable manufacturing excellence systems.
· Strong preference for experience from automotive, food, pharmaceutical or similarly regulated industries AND/OR experience in MTO / HMLV environment.
· Ability to assess and develop QMS effectiveness and influence decisions across functional boundaries.
· Strong analytical and improvement capability, applying data and Operational Excellence methods pragmatically and validating sustainable results.
· Proactive, open-minded, and hands-on, with the ability to challenge existing practices and drive sustainable changes.