Description
The Vice President, Quality Assurance, Product Integrity & Product Compliance, will serve as the enterprise leader responsible for defining, integrating, and operationalizing the organization's end-to-end quality strategy across the global value chain.
This role will lead all pillars of the Quality First agenda, including Brand Quality, Manufacturing Quality, Quality Governance, Product Integrity, and Product Compliance, ensuring a consistent, consumer-centric approach to quality from product conception through delivery.
The VP will drive a proactive culture of prevention, accountability, continuous improvement, and operational excellence by aligning cross-functional teams, regional organizations, suppliers, and external partners around a unified quality vision.
Key responsibilities include:
- Leading and executing the enterprise-wide Quality First strategy
- Establishing a unified, consumer-centric quality operating model
- Partnering cross-functionally with various teams to embed quality throughout the product lifecycle
- Overseeing global manufacturing quality programs and supplier performance management
- Defining and governing enterprise quality standards, policies, and KPIs
- Leading enterprise product integrity and compliance programs
- Driving quality intelligence and analytics capabilities
- Building and developing a high-performing global quality organization
The ideal candidate will have 15+ years of progressive leadership experience in Quality, Manufacturing, Sourcing, Product Integrity, Compliance, or Supply Chain within a global consumer products, apparel, footwear, retail, or related industry environment.
Requirements include:
- Proven experience leading large-scale enterprise quality transformation initiatives
- Deep expertise in Brand Quality, Manufacturing Quality, Product Integrity, Product Compliance, and quality governance frameworks
- Strong understanding of global regulatory requirements and product safety standards
- Demonstrated success building and implementing quality systems and KPIs
- Experience working closely with cross-functional partners
- Strong analytical and strategic problem-solving capabilities
- Proven leadership capability with experience building and leading high-performing global teams