Senior Manager Quality Assurance, New Product Introduction (NPI) Strategic QA leader with a passion for people, innovation, and excellence.
We're looking for someone who thrives at the intersection of quality and transformation, and who's ready to shape the future through enabling technology platforms and innovative supply chain solutions alongside our AMagine partners.
A Passionate Quality Leader who will lead the execution of quality strategies for New Product Introductions (NPI), with a strong focus on speed-to-market, risk mitigation, and compliance.
Position Summary As a global partner & leader of the Quality Assurance (QA) AMagine and NPI team, this role advocates and leads design for manufacture and assembly through technical leadership and direction in quality assurance for new product launches and in the Personalised Solutions space.
This leader will influence the development and introduction of new products, processes, and technologies, with focus on process risk management including robust pFMEA to deliver highest quality products at launch.
Inspires NPI team in partnering to drive robust preventative measures and improvements of product quality and process design.
Position Requirements Working within the regional NPI Quality structure, in a leadership capacity, has responsibility for quality related activities, including, but not limited to the following: Sets direction: Drives the execution of new product development strategy, with the goal of developing highly capable processes, that result in high yield and enable scalability.
Builds organizational capability: Promotes the optimisation of inspection strategies for launch through technology, automation, and supplier certification.
Enables the development of lean inspection strategies, enabling lower inspection cost per unit.
Inspires others: Coaching and development of staff who champion quality assurance during the product development process, ensuring product launches meet or exceed established metrics.
Delivers results: Oversight and responsibility to ensure appropriate production and process controls are identified, qualified, and implemented throughout the manufacturing process.
Drives robust pFMEA and critical to quality attributes (CQA) identification to deliver accurate process risk identification, process characterization, process validation, process capability, robust process control and supplier capability.
Fosters collaborative internal/external professional relationships across Design Divisions, Advanced Operations & GQO functions associated with new product launch.
Collaborate with Regional NPI QA Leaders to share and harmonize best practices, leverage lessons learned, and drive partnership and consistency within the global NPI QA team.
Communicate effectively with all internal customers, stakeholders, and project teams to deliver successful New Product Introductions that meet the NPI project goals as well as the regulatory requirements.
Oversight and responsibility to ensure adherence to product quality performance indicators (supplier DPM, right first time, manufacturing loss, manufacturing complaints per million, units recalled, product escapes and use-as-is), in conjunction with other targets per the design