Global Head Product Process Quality

Global Head Product & Process Quality

Responsibilities:

Strategic Planning and Leadership

• Develop and implement global qualification strategies aligned with the company’s business objectives.

• Lead and manage a global team of qualification specialists.

• Ensure continuous improvement of qualification processes and methodologies.

Compliance and Standards

• Ensure all products are qualified according to international quality standards and regulatory requirements.

• Updating qualification processes accordingly to changes in global regulations and standards.

Qualification Processes

• Oversee the development and execution of qualification plans for new products and updates to existing products.

• Manage the documentation and reporting of qualification activities.

• Ensure robust testing and validation processes are in place.

Supplier Management

• Responsible for series process and product quality for all products manufactured by external contract manufacturers.

• Main contact and responsibility for Asian contract manufacturers (for product and process quality purchasing and development services are covered by other functions).

• Supplier and partner evaluation and selection (product and process quality).

• Provide technical guidance and support to external partners.

Crossfunctional Collaboration

• Work closely with project management product design regulatory and compliance production product management to ensure qualification requirements are integrated into the product development lifecycle.

• Provide technical guidance and support to internal teams.

Risk Management

• Identify and mitigate risks associated with product qualification and compliance.

• Develop contingency plans to address potential qualification issues.

Customer Focus

• Engage with customers to understand their qualification needs and expectations.

• Ensure customer feedback is incorporated into qualification processes.

Requirement:

• Technical degree (BA Master Ingenieur PhD) with minimum 8 to 10 years relevant experience in product and process qualification of which 5 years with leadership responsibility within Audio / headphone product development experience.

• PMI certification or similar

• Broad technical knowledge in the Product development and Quality processes experience.

• Good strategic thinking skills with high leadership skills or the respective potential.

• Good knowledge on tools and methods to organize and proven ability to empower and motivate people and teams.

Interested applicants can write in to subject: Quality Head