AVP - Corporate Quality - ( For Chemical , Specialty Chemical, API Industries )

Job description : 

The corporate Quality Head ensures the Products and Services are meeting with the compliance of company's Quality requirements in addition to meeting with the Customers' and Regulatory requirements for Quality, Reliability and Safety 

Essential Duties and Responsibilities: 

- Responsible for Development, Implementation and strict adherence to the Quality Develop and review all standards, policies, and procedures of all functions involved with product manufacturing and delivery

 - Corporate Quality head is ultimate decision maker over the shipment of products and accepts the responsibility for products being in compliance with Regulatory, Customer specifications and company standards 

- Reviews and resolves Quality issues / concerns with Site Quality Managers and others including Manufacturing, vendors and customers and with related functions. Coordinate and assist for vendor development

 - Periodically inspects Quality plans, check lists, lab SOPs for conformance to standards and customer requirements 

- Schedules and performs quality audits across all the sites and reports the findings to Global Head

 - Business Excellence and develops Corrective and Preventive measures Receives and reviews all customer complaints with complaint trends and product / process failure analysis and develops CAPA with appropriate teams 

- Prepare reports and documentation required for reviews. 

- Lead all site Quality teams and train on customer orientation, Robust Root cause analysis, CAPA, reduce recurring problems through appropriate tools 

- Develop and constantly improve, through creative thinking, the quality plans, procedures and testing methods employed during the product launching and commercialization 

- Lead product quality risk management process and ensure right root causes and mitigation strategies are in place

 - Provide expertise in critical quality areas of processes, Chemistry, Packaging, Regulatory and validations 

- Identify, develop and implement new quality measurement systems including testing automation and lab wide process improvements 

- Should be familiar with ISO 9001 -2015, SPC and GDP - Work with teams in Global Quality organization to drive Quality vision and efficiencies with respect to testing SOPs, quality planning, quality development and execution. 

- Drive Zero defects and right first time initiatives across the operations. Troubleshoot Quality issues in the manufacturing and packaging processes and perform CAPAs as necessary

 - Training, coaching and mentoring team members of all site quality teams to achieve their potential 

- Provides or assists on employee training to ensure Quality compliance with procedures and regulations. Technical and working knowledge of quality assurance processes, tools and techniques

- Good in interpersonal skills, problem solving skills, planning/organization skills, strategy and customer focus 

- Assist with development of infrastructure for the new Quality Assurance team including; policy, procedures, reporting, and to track actions for improvements. Establish goals for Quality teams and monitor their performance. 

- Ensure they receive periodic performance feedback as appropriate 

- Drives the Quality center of excellence. Responsible for the continued development Quality systems, capability and maintenance of compliance in the Labs. 

- A collaborative style that can demonstrate the ability to interact and influence many teams to reach their goals

 - Good analytical skills to gather and interpret technical information, and to develop, recommend and implement solutions 

- Knowledge of wide range lab equipment's and Lean laboratory concepts. Understand business drivers, quality risks, and tradeoffs with the ability to propose risk mitigation approaches to meet the business need

 - Improve delivery of key initiatives through the implementation of a hybrid model of Quality Assurance & Quality Control Abilities

 - Ability to deal with complex quality analysis - Comfortable working in an extremely dynamic environment 

- A change leader in Quality who is highly flexible and able to quickly adapt to changing priorities

 - Strong interpersonal skills with excellent oral and written communication skills 

- A strong team-player with a passion to improve the product quality - Organized and self-motivated

 - Strong listening and influencing skills to foster an open, innovative and responsive environment and to drive change - Promote and support an environment that encourages productivity, continuous improvements, teamwork, and a high level of professionalism 

Qualification and Experience required:

 - Graduate / Post Graduate in Chemical Eng. or MSc in Chemistry 

- 15+ years' experience in Quality function of Chemical / API /Intermediates manufacturing 

- Proficient in ERP operating environment and LIMS

 - Proficient with personal computer skills, specifically Microsoft office applications ; Working knowledge in SPC / Six sigma is preferred Reporting 

- Reports to Global Head - Business Excellence

NITISH BAGUL
M-09821803787

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