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Director, Quality
Newell Rubbermaid
Huntersville, NC, United States
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Position Title: Director, Quality - CCS
Location: Huntersville, NC
Reports to: VP – Supply Chain, CCS
Job Summary:
The Director, Quality will be accountable for the continuing development and effectiveness of key functional quality areas such as; plant and supplier quality performance, new product introduction – quality planning and implementation, consumer/customer quality assurance, data analytics/reporting and auditing. It is envisaged that this will be achieved through the design and implementation of a divisional quality management system of which this individual will be the functional owner.
Responsibilities:
• Provides vision, strategic and tactical planning to the organization relative to quality control and assurance
• Facilitates alignment between improvement initiatives and CCS strategic plan.
• Directs and integrates quality system globally.
• Develops and implements an operational plan to drive quality, productivity, and continuous improvement globally, and works with peer leaders in other business units to drive those initiatives across the company.
• Measures results and ensures payback on investment.
• Leads change through a process that empowers other leaders within the organization, giving them skills and ownership for initiatives and results. Serves as change agent and process improvement leader for senior management.
• Leads communication of quality issues across the company.
• Develops and expands system-wide curriculum to educate leadership and staff in the concepts and methods of quality improvement, product safety and process reliability. Serves as faculty and quality executive spokesperson for the network.
• Ensures strategies and procedures exist to maximize financial resource management, including development and achievement of financial performance objectives. Prepares annual budget and conducts regular monitoring for performance against the approved budget.
Qualifications:
• Bachelor’s degree in engineering or science, graduate degree a plus
• 10 plus years’ experience in a Quality function with progressive leadership responsibility
• 5+ years’ experience of managing a multi-national global Quality operation
• Ability to travel both domestically and internationally, up to 30% of the time.
• Experience in a growth-oriented, multi-national, manufacturing, engineering, service and sales organization
• Broad quality assurance background in the field of consumer products
• Proven success in leading a cross functional team, driving change, collaborative approach and results driven
• Excellent communications skill
Newell Brands (NYSE: NWL) is a leading global consumer goods company with a strong portfolio of well-known brands, including Paper Mate, Sharpie, Dymo, EXPO, Parker, Elmers, Coleman, Jostens, Marmot, Rawlings, Oster, Sunbeam, FoodSaver, Mr. Coffee, Rubbermaid Commercial Products, Graco, Baby Jogger, NUK, Calphalon, Rubbermaid, Contigo, First Alert, Waddington and Yankee Candle. For hundreds of millions of consumers, Newell Brands makes life better every day, where they live, learn, work and play. Newell Brands and its subsidiaries are Equal Opportunity Employers and comply with applicable employment laws. EOE/M/F/Vet/Disabled are encouraged to apply.