Sr Director, Quality Assurance NAM

The Sr. Director, Quality Assurance will provide quality leadership to the Health & Nutrition, Life Sciences North America business to ensure compliance with regulatory authority requirements and to ensure sites are meeting or exceeding customer quality expectations. Provide strategic leadership to the Quality group for sustained quality system programs with a continuous focus on improvementLead and inspire the Quality Function by establishing Quality policies that are uniformly deployed across the businessEducate, motivate, and empower employees across all functions and operations in the development of a Customer-Focused Quality CultureEnsure that processes needed for the QMS are effectively established, implemented, and effectively maintained; reporting to executive management on the performance and effectiveness of the QMS for review and any need for improvementEnsure the promotion of awareness of applicable regulatory requirements and QMS requirements throughout the organizationEnsure that all sites are inspection or audit-ready and support global regulatory inspections and third-party audit programTrend, analyze and report on QMS compliance and performance to the Global Head of QualityIdentify critical compliance and/or business issues related to quality.  Create and execute remediation strategies and tactical plans as needed using a risk management-based approachDevelop strategically and operationally effective response plans to Third Party/Customer audit findingsConduct investigations and internal audits on behalf of the Global Quality Excellence teamIdentify and immediately report potential risks that may impact service and the business