Vice President Quality

Examples of Typical Activities:

• Develop and implement a global Quality and Compliance strategy that aligns with corporate goals, ensuring consistent product integrity and consumer trust across all markets.
• Serve as the executive sponsor for quality systems modernization, advancing digital transformation, AI-based analytics, and real-time quality dashboards.
• Provide strategic counsel to the CEO and executive team on product quality trends, compliance risks, and emerging regulatory requirements.
• Establish and govern enterprise-wide Quality KPIs that link directly to financial performance (e.g., warranty cost reduction, customer satisfaction, and defect rates).
• Oversee all product testing, compliance documentation, and certification programs to safeguard brand reputation and consumer safety.
• Partner with Customer Care, Marketing, and eCommerce to identify quality-related consumer insights and reduce returns, complaints, and negative reviews.
• Act as the executive liaison with major retail partners, regulatory agencies, and certification bodies.
• Own and govern the enterprise-wide Quality Management System (QMS) ensuring ISO 9001, CPSIA, ASTM, and JPMA compliance across all sites.
• Support the development, implementation, and maintenance of sound quality systems at both the corporate and operations levels.
• Establish global supplier quality standards and audit programs, focusing on high-risk components and contract manufacturers.
• Collaborate with Supply Chain and Procurement to drive quality-based supplier scorecards and performance improvement.
• Lead, mentor, and develop a high-performing Quality and Regulatory Affairs team with clear accountability and succession planning.
• Identify opportunities for improvement within the Quality Management System, make recommendations, facilitate implementation, and share lessons learned within the organization.
• Continuous upgrading consumer experience with perception quality and bring more value to Evenflo products.
• Foster a culture of quality excellence, accountability, and proactive risk management throughout the organization

Required Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Science, or a related technical field required; Master's degree (MBA, MS in Quality or Operations Management)

Strongly preferred. ASQ certifications (CQE, CMQ/OE, Six Sigma Black Belt) considered a plus

Required Experience

15+ of progressive experience leading Quality and Regulatory functions in complex, multi-site manufacturing environments, including 5-7 years in a senior leadership capacity overseeing enterprise-level quality systems and compliance in consumer goods, juvenile products, or related industries.

Required Technical Competencies

• Executive Communication & Influence: Exceptional verbal and written communication skills with the ability to distill complex quality, safety, and compliance topics into clear strategic insights for executive leadership, regulatory bodies, and external partners.
• Enterprise Program Leadership: Proven expertise leading large-scale, cross-functional quality initiatives and transformation programs across global manufacturing, supply chain, and product development functions - from strategy design to measurable results.
• Advanced Quality & Compliance Systems: Deep knowledge of global Quality Management Systems (QMS), regulatory compliance, and product safety standards including ASTM, JPMA, CPSIA, CPSC, ISO 9001, and applicable FDA regulations for juvenile products.
• Operational Excellence & Root Cause Methodology: Mastery of quality disciplines such as Six Sigma, Lean, and FMEA, with the ability to institutionalize structured problem-solving, root cause analysis, and corrective/preventive action (CAPA) processes across all sites and suppliers.
• Digital Quality & Analytics: Demonstrated experience implementing AI-enabled quality tools, predictive analytics, and digital dashboards to proactively identify trends, prevent defects, and optimize decision-making through real-time performance data.
• Manufacturing & Process Expertise: Strong understanding of injection molding, plastics, and assembly operations, including design-for-quality principles (DFMEA/PFMEA), tolerance analysis, and supplier process validation.
• Governance & Documentation: Skilled in developing and enforcing enterprise-wide quality policies, technical standards, and audit frameworks that ensure regulatory readiness and sustained product integrity.
• Project & Change Management: Exceptional ability to lead complex, multi-site projects; set clear milestones and KPIs; and drive adoption of new systems and cultural behaviors that elevate quality performance across the organization.
• Team development: capable to set up the organization, recognize the people, training the people, foster the organizational development as well as the staff career development.

Required Behavioral Competencies

• Personal Leadership- Leads by envisioning the future, engaging others, energizing people and enabling self and others to develop and execute plans to deliver strategy.
• Aligning Performance for Success- Focuses and guides others in accomplishing work objectives.
• Building Partnerships- Identifies opportunities and takes action to build strategic relationships between one's area and other areas, teams, teams, departments, units or organizations to help achieve business goals.
• Customer Focus- Makes customers and their needs a primary focus on one's actions; develops and sustains productive customer relationships.
• Information Monitoring- Sets up ongoing procedures to collect and review information needed to manage an organization or ongoing activities within it.
• Initiates Action- Takes prompt action to accomplish objectives; takes action to achieve goals beyond what is required; is proactive.
• Strategic Decision Making- Obtains information and identifies key issues and relationships relevant to achieving a long-range goal or vision; commits to a course of action to accomplish a long0range goal or vision after developing alternatives based on logical assumptions, facts, available resources, constraints and organizational value.

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