Director - Product Safety / Quality Assurance

Responsibilities include:

- Drive Change management throughout the organization.

- Lead global QMS policy & procedure creation, modification and implementation to drive towards continuous improvement.

- Develop and lead engineers and nontechnical team members for categories supported.

- Ability to communicate quality direction, policy, procedures and departmental objectives throughout the organization and hold the team accountable for executing to these standards.

- Evaluate and ensure team's assessment of vendors/ factories for overall performance, to ensure sustainability in quality execution, capacities and that capability are in line with the most current International Safety and

Regulatory requirements:

- Sustain onboarding of new vendor/factories in partnership with cross functional teams, ensuring consistent compliance to requirements.

- Ensure teams are validating vendor/factories and are working toward continuous improvement and utilizing tools to identify defect trends, applying root cause, application of root cause and preventative action planning in a proactive manner to ensure measurable improvement.

- Hold vendors accountable to quality ensuring that products meet/beat quality standard.

- Provide feedback on job performance and coach team on appropriate communication.

- Advocate for product quality, safety & compliance throughout the enterprise.

- Champion, lead and support enterprise level projects that implement key strategies and solutions

- Understand PSQA core foundations to hold team accountable to the execution of the PSQA program.

- Strategic influence of PSQA's program

- Develop team's category and technical expertise.

- Knowledge of quality and manufacturing principles.

About Role :

- Degree in technical or business discipline with appropriate experience

- 10+ years' experience in industry; includes retail compliance, quality management, product or manufacturing industry equivalent.

- Knowledge of quality control/assurance processes and tools

- Knowledge of raw materials characteristics and manufacturing processes

- Ability to translate strategy to execution

- Proficient in applying the Code of Federal Regulations (CFRs), statutes, legislations, regulations and industry standards.