Job Description
As Quality Manager, you will lead quality operations across manufacturing, warehousing, and distribution, ensuring compliance while driving continuous improvement throughout the supply chain.
Your role:
- Lead and develop the Quality Assurance team (6-8 FTE), supporting hiring, coaching, performance, and career development.
- Ensure compliance with regulatory requirements, company quality standards, and manufacturing processes across manufacturing, postponement, and warehouse operations.
- Oversee product release activities, incoming inspection, and nonconforming material management to ensure timely and compliant product disposition.
- Monitor and improve operational quality performance through KPIs, driving corrective actions and continuous improvement initiatives.
- Own site quality readiness by leading customer, regulatory, and certification audits and coordinating cross-functional audit support.
- Partner closely with Supply Chain, Manufacturing, Supplier Quality, and Operations teams to strengthen quality systems and implement Supply Chain Quality Engineering capabilities.
- Support supplier quality processes, including vendor qualification and oversight of purchased materials, components, and finished products.
- Lead or contribute to cross-functional projects by providing quality expertise, risk assessment, and quality planning.
- Ensure quality policies, procedures, and documentation remain current and aligned with evolving business and regulatory requirements.
You're the right fit if you have:
- Bachelor's / Master's Degree in Quality Management, Supply Chain Management, Engineering, Science or equivalent.
- Minimum 3 years of experience in a medical device or regulated industry with experience in quality systems and quality improvement.
- Experience managing teams preferred.
- Knowledge of MDR Regulations, ISO 13485, and MDSAP standards.
- Demonstrated planning and organizing, customer focus, and cross-functional teamwork skills and willingness to work as a team player in a change-oriented department.
- Strong working knowledge of process development and validation methodologies.
- Excellent verbal/written communications, as well as a strong attention to detail required. Ability to communicate effectively with all levels in the organization.
- Working knowledge of MS Office Applications. SAP experience preferred.
- Demonstrated ability to manage multiple projects at once and shifting priorities to meet business and/or quality system requirements.
How we work together
We believe that we are better together than apart. For this role, it means working in-person at least 3 days per week.
About Philips
We are a health technology company.