Corporate Quality Manager

Are you looking to take your quality career to the next level? Do you have multi-site manufacturing quality experience in a highly regulated environment with expertise in Quality Control, Quality Assurance, and Lean practices?

The successful candidate will lead a plastic flexible packaging quality program across four manufacturing campuses supporting leading food and perishable packaging companies.

Key Responsibilities

• Systems Management: Develop, establish, and maintain global quality systems, programs, policies, processes, procedures, and controls. Ensure the performance and quality of products conform to established standards and agency guidelines to ensure lasting customer satisfaction.

• Cultural Leadership: Lead a cultural change within the quality organization from reactive to proactive. Establish strong engagement between quality and operations to achieve the company’s quality mission.

• Problem Solving: Implement an effective Root Cause and Permanent Corrective Action process to permanently eliminate quality defects and deliver a significant reduction in customer returns and complaints.

• Strategy: Develop, implement, and lead an effective quality organizational structure focusing on strategy and driving cultural change within the leadership team.

• Decision Making: Make final decisions on administrative or operational issues affecting all quality functions. Participate with the leadership team in developing and establishing company-wide policies.

• Operational Excellence: Maintain accountability for the overall effectiveness and operational success of the global quality organization. Successfully integrate these activities with other major organizational segments. Lead, train, and facilitate a company-wide Continuous Improvement process focused on key company objectives.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree is required.

• Quality certifications preferred (e.g., ISO, Six Sigma, Lean).

• Well-versed in continuous improvement tools and methods with demonstrated proficiency in implementing and facilitating CI teams.

• Excellent ability to drive and implement Root Cause and Permanent Corrective Action throughout the organization.

• 5 years of quality control/quality assurance experience is required, as well as at least 5 years in a global quality leadership role.

• Demonstrated success in developing and leading a company-wide quality function.

• Proven success in driving cultural and organizational change that delivers continuous improvement in customer satisfaction.

• Ability to bring structure and process to an unstructured environment.

• Previous experience with consumer packaging is strongly desired.

• Competence in program, metrics, and measures development.

• Strong people development and cross-functional collaborative skills.

• Ability to manage horizontally and vertically; ability to articulate strategy and results to the executive team while enabling understanding of quality objectives throughout the organization.

• Experience with flexible packaging, rigid packaging, and/or printing processes preferred.

If you fulfill these responsibilities, please apply. We offer outstanding compensation, including benefits.