Vice President, Global Quality

Position Summary

The Vice President, Global Quality provides strategic leadership for the Global Innovation & Delivery (GID) quality organization, overseeing Product Quality, Manufacturing Quality, Supplier Quality, and Quality Systems. This executive is responsible for establishing a unified global quality strategy to ensure the delivery of safe, reliable, and high-performing energy storage solutions across the entire product lifecycle, from product development and engineering through supplier management, manufacturing, commercialization, and customer delivery. The role partners closely with Product, Engineering, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Procurement, and Field Service to strengthen quality performance, drive continuous improvement, reduce the cost of poor quality, and ensure compliance with global standards while fostering a culture of operational excellence.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and execute the global quality strategy aligned with GID and business objectives.

• Lead Product Quality, Manufacturing Quality, Supplier Quality, and Quality Systems under a unified operating model.

• Partner with Engineering and Product Management to embed quality throughout product design, development, validation, and commercialization.

• Establish enterprise quality standards, governance, metrics, and reporting across global operations.

• Drive supplier quality performance through qualification, audits, corrective actions, and continuous improvement initiatives.

• Strengthen manufacturing quality systems by improving process capability, first-pass yield, defect reduction, and product reliability.

• Lead enterprise root cause analysis, CAPA, risk management, and quality improvement initiatives using Lean and Six Sigma methodologies.

• Ensure compliance with applicable regulatory, customer, and industry quality standards while maintaining the global Quality Management System (QMS).

• Partner cross-functionally to reduce warranty costs, improve customer satisfaction, and enhance field performance.

• Build and develop a high-performing global quality organization while promoting a culture of accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in engineering, Manufacturing, Quality, or a related technical field; master's degree preferred.

• 15+ years of progressive leadership experience in quality within manufacturing, industrial technology, automotive, battery, energy, or related industries.

• Demonstrated leadership across Product Quality, Manufacturing Quality, and Supplier Quality in global operations.

• Strong knowledge of Quality Management Systems (QMS), ISO standards, CAPA, reliability engineering, and statistical quality methods.

• Executive leadership experience driving organizational transformation, operational excellence, and cross-functional collaboration.

• Lean Six Sigma and/or ASQ quality certifications preferred.