Senior Quality Manager (m/f/d)
Job details Work flexibility: Onsite Req ID: R558057 Employee type: Full Time Job category: RAQA Travel: 20% Relocation: No
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Job description
Excel with us as a Senior Quality Manager
Position Summary
Establish a quality centre of excellence, develop organisational strategies, processes, goals, and metrics to drive measurable improvements in quality processes. Oversee the consistency of quality processes. Manage and address potential product and safety investigations through investigation and corrective action.
What You'll Do:
* Manage day-to-day quality processes to ensure iss ues are appropriately evaluated
* Establish annual budgets and quarterly forecasts. Make necessary changes with app ropriate management involvement
* Communicate and collaborate with Quality Assurance, R&D, Service, Global Supply, Finance, Sales, and Marketing departments to ensure corpora te goals and strategies are met
* Develop teams to ensure timely resolution of inprocess and supplier product technical issues to avoid disruption and ensure continuity of supply
* Serve as a site leader for GQO quality processes
* Provide guidance, recommendations, and implementation plans for adherence to new regulato ry requirements or expectations
* Establish standard process to ensure appropriate resolution and managemen t of the responsible task owner
* Chair meetings required to drive closure of quality issues
* Manage and provide updates for quality metrics. Imp lement appropriate enhancements
* Represent quality processes durin g internal and external audits
* Define targets, KPIs, performance objectives, etc. for individuals within functional role, and manage direct reports to meet or exc eed these targets
* Recruit, select, and on-board top talent
* Develop talent within team to increase performance. Actively add ress performance issues on team
* Maintain a high level of team engagement
What You'll Need:
* Demonstrated knowledge and application of regulatory requirements, including ISO, FDA, and International requirements
* Demonstrate technical knowledge of medical device product lines
* Demonstrated written, verbal, listening, communic ation, and team-building skills
* Demonstrated ability to collaborate effectively with and lea d cross-functional teams
* Demonstrated ability to effectively prioritize and ma nage multiple project workloads
* Demonstrated experience with trending and analysis reporting
* Demonstrated knowledge of adverse event reporting, complaint investigation, CAPA, and corrective action processes
* Demonstrated leadership skills
* Demonstrated process improvement and management skills
* Experience with recruiting, people development
* In fluence across the organization
* Demonstrate an entrepreneurial spirit for driving business forward- relentless drive to deliver on bold and innovative change initi atives
* I ncreases business impact by holding s elf and others accountable for collaborating with global colleagues across functions and divisions, internally and externally
* A predisposition for coaching and mentoring and a genuine interest in helping others develop
* S trong emotional intelligence to guid e how to achieve through others
* Exceptional communication skills to influence key decision makers at all levels within the Organisation
* Great interpersonal skills- a Team player
* A strong leader with a skill for engaging their team in a common goal
* Service minded and courageous
Preferred:
* BS in a science, engineering or re lated Advanced degree preferred
* Minimum of 1 0 years experience, 7 years of supervisory experience preferred
* Masters Degree or equi valent preferred
* Experience wor king in a regulated environment
* Good understanding of manufacturing process technologies, and the ability to understand complex processes
* Experience with delivering results through 6 sigma and lean methods
* Strong analytical ability, relevant ERP knowledge (preferably SAP, Oracle or JDEdwards ) and experience and strong PC skills (MS Excel, Access, etc.,)
Stryker is a global leader in medical technologies and, together with its customers, is driven to make healthcare better. The company offers innovative products and services in MedSurg, Neurotechnology and Orthopaedics that help improve patient and healthcare outcomes. Alongside its customers around the world, Stryker impacts more than 150 million patients annually.