Head of Quality
hace 5 días
Cardiff
Head of Quality Cardiff Area - Hybrid Working with a manufacturing business seeking an experienced Head of Quality to lead and evolve its company-wide quality strategy across a complex, multi-site environment. This is a senior leadership role focused on driving operational excellence, maintaining robust compliance standards, and embedding a proactive quality culture across the organisation. The Role Reporting into senior leadership, you will take ownership of the Quality Management System (QMS), lead multi-site quality teams, and ensure ongoing compliance with industry regulations and audit requirements. You will play a key role in shaping quality strategy, improving business performance, and supporting product and process excellence across the full lifecycle. Key responsibilities include: • Developing and delivering the company quality strategy, • Leading and developing high-performing QA/QC teams, • Managing and improving QMS governance, CAPA processes, change control, and audit readiness, • Driving continuous improvement initiatives across operations and engineering, • Leading internal and external audits, including customer and regulatory inspections, • Partnering with cross-functional teams to ensure compliance across products, systems, and processes, • Ensuring quality standards are embedded throughout new product introduction and operational activities, • Delivering meaningful KPI reporting and supporting senior management reviews, • Building strong relationships with both internal stakeholders and external regulatory bodies What We’re Looking For: • Proven senior quality leadership experience within a highly regulated environment, • Strong understanding of Quality Management Systems and compliance frameworks, • Experience leading audit activity and maintaining inspection readiness, • Demonstrable success driving continuous improvement and operational quality performance, • Strong stakeholder management and leadership capability across multi-site operations, • Ability to operate strategically while remaining hands-on when required, • Knowledge of regulated manufacturing standards such as ISO frameworks and MDSAP is highly desirable If you think this could be a good fit, please apply, or drop me a direct message!