Quality Director Manufacturing, Europe

Join Reckitt: Quality Director Manufacturing, Europe

We are Reckitt

Home to the world's best loved and trusted hygiene, health, and nutrition brands. Our purpose defines why we exist: to protect, heal and nurture in the relentless pursuit of a cleaner, healthier world. We are a global team united by this purpose. Join us in our fight to make access to the highest quality hygiene, wellness, and nourishment a right and not a privilege.

Research & Development

In Research and Development we're full of highly skilled talents that include Scientists, Engineers, Medical, Clinical and Regulatory professionals - all working to create a cleaner, healthier world. With nine Centres of Excellence, we continually seek out new opportunities by using science, our entrepreneurial flare and our fearless innovation to develop and enhance our existing portfolio, never compromising on quality or performance. We do the right thing, always, by ensuring we act with responsibility and integrity, by complying with regulatory legislation across the globe, whilst ensuring our products are safe for our consumers and are to the highest quality. The size of our organisation means you'll have the opportunity to learn and work in different functions within Research and Development, giving you exposure to different disciplines, teams and environments. You will also have access to our Research and Development Academy, designed to develop our team and allow you to grow in our great organisation.

About the role

Stakeholders: Regional Supply Leaders, Quality Leadership Teams, R&D

Reports to: VP Quality Europe, Strategy, Self Care

People responsibility:

• 5 Direct Reports
• Total Organisation Reports: 75 approx.

Country / Site Specific Context: Able to travel to sites within the Group

A member of the Europe Quality Leadership Team (EUQLT), the Quality Director Manufacturing, Europe proactively drives quality compliance performance and has overarching strategic quality leadership responsibility for the Europe Core Reckitt Quality team in the region.

• Supply Region
  • Business Partnering with the Regional & Site Leaders
  • Providing strategic quality leadership input at a regional level
  • For Product Distribution, provides strategic quality leadership to the Supply Team on requirements for all product categories.
• Internal Factories
  • Ensures compliance of all operations to internal and external requirements.
  • Maintains necessary quality certifications and licences.
  • Executive responsibility for the release for sale decisions
  • Establish and maintain a QMS and across the supply chain, liaising as required with EUANZ Commercial Quality
  • Drive improvements in compliance and efficiency

Scope: Chartres, Weinheim, Mira, Nowy Dwor, Tuzla factories

Your responsibilities

Accountabilities

• Overarching leadership responsibility for Quality compliance of all factories, within the current scope of the role
• QMS Maintenance and Improvement across region
• Leadership and development of the Quality Team within the region
• Passing all Internal and external quality audits
• Driving improvements to key KPIs
• Innovation in Quality processes/ controls / Identifying processes where human errors are possible, build a case for action and drive the creation of Tech enabled fail-safe solution cross-functionally.
• Design, build and implement a Culture of Quality program across the region.

Key Challenges:

• Balancing the pace with ensuring no compliance issues
• Managing complexity; multiple factories, diverse product portfolio
• Ensuring consistency of standards across our manufacturing sites
• Assessing and keeping up to date with the requirements of multiple regulatory authorities, including FDA, EMEA etc

The experience we're looking for

Skills & Experience required:

• At least 10 years of experience working in a quality, operations and or compliance function in a Healthcare, Pharmaceutical, or Medical Device related industry.
• Quality Leadership experience in a strategic role
• Experience in developing and maintaining a robust QMS in a Healthcare, Medical Device or Hygiene related industry.
• Good understanding of regulatory, GMP and GDP requirements relevant to a regulated products as required e.g., EU GMP, EU GDP, WHO, PIC/S, CFR 21 Part 210/211; the role of the local competent authority in registering sites.
• Auditing skills, with appropriate qualifications in auditing an advantage.
• Strong communication skills
• Proven influencing skills.
• Diplomatic and tactful in challenging situations
• Highly motivated and able to self-manage time and workload.
• Organised and able to deliver concise written or oral summaries to senior management.

Technical / professional qualifications required:

• Bachelor’s or advanced degree in the sciences or supply chain related degree.
• Experience of interacting with regulatory inspections
• Good understanding of GMP, GDP and quality management systems.
• Thorough knowledge of the regulatory requirements, rules and guidance covering the distribution of products and medical devices
• English speaking (essential)

The skills for success

Business Strategy, Task Execution Under Pressure, Makes strategic Business Decisions, Business Acumen, Commercial Awareness, Objective Setting, Accountability, Consumer Insight, Creative Direction, R&D, Change Leadership, Product Lifecycle Management, Business Partnership, Collaboration and partnership building, Relationship Management, Adapt to changes in technological development plans, Ability to challenge the status quo and propose improvement, Innovation Processes, Digital transformation for R&D, Quality and Manufacturing.

What we offer

With inclusion at the heart of everything we do, working alongside our four global Employee Resource Groups, we support our people at every step of their career journey, helping them to succeed in their own individual way. We invest in the wellbeing of our people through parental benefits, an Employee Assistance Program to promote mental health, and life insurance for all employees globally. We have a range of other benefits in line with the local market. Through our global share plans we offer the opportunity to save and share in Reckitt's potential future successes. For eligible roles, we also offer short-term incentives to recognise, appreciate and reward your work for delivering outstanding results. You will be rewarded in line with Reckitt's pay for performance philosophy.

Equality

We recognise that in real life, great people don't always 'tick all the boxes'. That's why we hire for potential as well as experience. Even if you don't meet every point on the job description, if this role and our company feels like a good fit for you, we still want to hear from you. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, disability or medical condition; colour, ethnicity, race, citizenship, and national origin; religion, faith; pregnancy, family status and caring responsibilities; sexual orientation; sex, gender identity, gender expression, and transgender identity; protected veteran status; size or any other basis protected by appropriate law.

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