Senior Director Quality - CMD division
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Senior Director Quality - CMD division
Senior Director of Quality at Thermo Fisher Scientific within the Chromatography and Mass Spectrometry Division (CMD) is essential for ensuring the high quality of our products and their positive impact on society.
How will you make an impact?
Within our Quality department, we prioritize collaboration and unity—joining forces to improve and maintain quality standards across the company. We are looking for an innovative quality supervisor for the Chromatography and Mass Spectrometry Division (CMD).
Lead quality system & assurance strategies, ensuring global compliance with regulations and surpassing customer expectations. Reports to VP of Operations.
What will you do?
- Develop and implement a comprehensive Q&RA strategy for CMD that drives growth while ensuring compliance readiness.
- Champion a strong quality culture, aligning teams to meet and exceed customer and business expectations.
- Lead and mentor a global quality organization (8–10 direct, ~90 indirect reports) across North America, Europe, China, and Singapore—building leadership capability and encouraging professional growth.
- Apply data-driven insights to strengthen process control, root cause analysis, and predictive/preventive quality systems.
- Coordinate operations quality across CMD sites to achieve business and regulatory objectives efficiently.
- Ensure Quality Management Systems remain compliant, effective, and continuously improved—covering CAPA, complaints, audits, change control, and NPDI support.
- Collaborate with Regulatory Affairs and cross-functional partners to support new product introductions and ensure global compliance.
- Bringing to bear analytics, optimizing systems, and excelling in processes to foster continuous improvement and cost efficiency.
- Operate effectively in a matrix organization, aligning with divisional and corporate teams on quality initiatives, audits, and performance metrics.
- Establish and monitor quality benchmarks to track performance and drive measurable improvements.
How will you get here?
Education
- B.S. degree or equivalent experience in Science, Engineering, or a related field.
Experience
- 15+ years of strategic quality leadership experience balancing multiple global sites.
- Experience with complex systems and instruments, ideally across industries such as Automotive, Aerospace, and Life Science Technology.
- Highly analytical and data-driven approach, with the ability to use benchmarks, indicators, and statistical methods to evaluate performance and promote ongoing improvement.
- Demonstrated customer focus—placing the customer at the forefront of decisions, prioritization, and process improvement.
- Proven ability to implement robust quality systems (ISO 9001 and ISO 13485) that meet regulatory, market, and customer requirements.
- Strong team-building skills, aligning strategy, organizational structure, and leadership talent.
- Expertise in operational execution and leading quality assurance organizations efficiently and effectively.
- Demonstrated flexibility and ability to lead multiple complex projects simultaneously.
- Ability to travel up to 25-40% across EMEA & Asia.
- Experience with Lean or Six Sigma improvement systems preferred.
Compensation
The monthly salary range estimated for this position based in Lithuania is Li
Work Schedule
Standard (Mon-Fri)
Environmental Conditions
Office
