Director Quality, India

Additional Locations: India-Haryana, Gurgaon

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At Boston Scientific, we’ll give you the opportunity to harness all that’s within you by working in teams of diverse and high-performing employees, tackling some of the most important health industry challenges. With access to the latest tools, information and training, we’ll help you in advancing your skills and career. Here, you’ll be supported in progressing – whatever your ambitions.

About the role:
The purpose of the Director of Quality India R&D role is to provide significant functional and technical knowledge of the quality, regulatory, and compliance systems and processes supporting local/regional/international business objectives across the Gurgaon and Pune sites.

This leader provides overall quality leadership for the India R&D organization, inclusive of department leadership, including allocating and managing department resources to accomplish local and international business objectives.  This position affords the opportunity to engage with Divisional and Global Function Quality leaders to ensure successful ongoing partnership and resource support to NPD and Sustaining quality functions to Protect the Core, Enable Growth and Fund the Journey. 

In addition, this Quality leader has responsibility to ensure compliance of quality system activities and objectives (programs, policies, processes, and procedures) along interacting, negotiating, and influencing decision-makers both internally and externally and acts as the Management Representative for the India R&D Organization.

Your key responsibilities will include:

• Strategy: Builds a local strategy aligned with India R&D and Global Quality.  Champion for advancing BSC’s Quality Culture across the India R&D organization, sponsoring key strategic events to reinforce the BSC Quality Policy (i.e. Everyone Makes an Impact Day).
• Quality Systems: Has advanced knowledge of the quality systems and applies the knowledge to create the highest quality products, exceed customer requirements, and comply with regulatory requirements. Review and analyze the effectiveness of the quality system and identify opportunities for design growth and support.
• Regulatory Compliance: Facilitates and leads compliance with all applicable global and local regulations through a robust quality system, quality records and communication with regulatory authorities. Monitors compliance with company policies and procedures (e.g. compliance with FDA, BSI, EEO regulations, etc.).
• Communication: Communicates and Influences quality policies, strategies, and procedures to the organization through written documents, presentations, and discussions with both internal and external key stakeholders.
• Talent Management: Recruit, coach, and develop organizational talent. Foster a diverse workplace that enables all participants to contribute to their full potential.
• Leadership: Provides leadership and direction and their departments to ensure alignment. Drives the culture by modeling the BSC core values and behaviors. Demonstrate effective change leadership and keep the organization's vision and values at the forefront of decision-making.
• Operational Management: Make strategic operational decisions, manage activities and budgets for functional areas, and develop and execute business plans and budgets.
• Crisis Management: Oversees robust response teams to effectively manage and resolve crises; leading leaders to exercise crisis management best practices and to proactively mitigate future crises.
• Cost Reduction: Employ Quality/Reliability System Processes to execute the appropriate strategy and results achievements often leading to continuous improvements and cost savings.
• Continuous Improvement: Actively spread best practices and process improvements across the organization.
• Problem Solving: Evaluates significant functional or technical challenges and leads others in the development of new or innovative solutions for an area within a sub-function, or in some cases for a function
• Impact: Impacts directly on achievement of operational, financial, and/or innovation objectives, performance and results for a significant part of a sub-function

Required Qualifications:

• Minimum of a Bachelor's degree
• Minimum of 9 years of related work experience or an equivalent combination of education and work experience
• Minimum of 5 years of people management experience
• Experience in managing large-scale, complex operations/programs/projects
• Deep experience in Quality Systems, NPD and Sustaining Product Quality.
• Experience in the Medical Device Industry
• Experience using problem-solving methodologies applied to technical problems
• Be able to work full time, hybrid between Gurgaon and Pune sites.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills to maintain stakeholder relationships and partner effectively with divisional quality directors and promote the value of the India R&D Quality organization across BSC.

 Preferred Qualifications:

• 12+ years relevant industry experience or an equivalent combination of education and work experience
• 7+ years of people management experience with at least 2 years leading people supervisors/managers
• Advanced degree
• Degree in Engineering
• Experience with BSC Quality systems and methods, products and customer needs
• Lean business/VIP experience
• Experience leading teams in a multi-site quality setting
• Engineering or manufacturing background with ability to understand technical models
• Cross-functional and/or cross-site experience
• Leading culture advancement and results in technical problem solving
• Financial experience in cost center planning and execution responsibility
• Excel in collaborative leadership with the ability to influence

Requisition ID: 609873

As a leader in medical science for more than 40 years, we are committed to solving the challenges that matter most – united by a deep caring for human life. Our mission to advance science for life is about transforming lives through innovative medical solutions that improve patient lives, create value for our customers, and support our employees and the communities in which we operate. Now more than ever, we have a responsibility to apply those values to everything we do – as a global business and as a global corporate citizen.

So, choosing a career with Boston Scientific (NYSE: BSX) isn’t just business, it’s personal. And if you’re a natural problem-solver with the imagination, determination, and spirit to make a meaningful difference to people worldwide, we encourage you to apply and look forward to connecting with you!