Quality Director

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Diversity - Innovation - Caring - Global Collaboration - Winning Spirit - High Performance

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 Quality Director will serve as a senior leader responsible for driving strategic direction, execution excellence, and enterprise alignment across critical Quality initiatives. This role operates at the intersection of strategy and execution, leading high-impact workstreams within global programs to ensure delivery of business-critical outcomes.

This leader will define the vision and priorities for their scope, make complex decisions in dynamic environments, and ensure strong accountability across stakeholders. Success in this role requires the ability to influence at the executive level, navigate ambiguity, and translate strategy into measurable results.

Work Mode: This role is hybrid requiring you to be onsite 3 days per week. This role will be based out of the Marlborough, MA location.

Your key responsibilities will include:

Strategic Direction & Prioritization

• Set the vision and strategic direction for assigned Quality program deliverables, ensuring alignment with broader enterprise priorities
• Define and continuously refine priorities based on business needs, risk landscape, and organizational goals
• Translate strategic objectives into clear roadmaps, initiatives, and deliverables with measurable outcomes
• Ensure alignment between global strategy and execution across regions, functions, and business units
• Anticipate future needs and proactively shape the evolution of the Quality function

Decision-Making & Escalation Leadership

• Serve as a key decision-maker for complex, high-impact issues, balancing risk, speed, and business value
• Lead trade-off decisions across competing priorities, resources, and timelines
• Establish and drive clear escalation pathways, ensuring timely resolution of critical issues
• Provide guidance and direction to teams on navigating ambiguity, risk, and operational challenges
• Act as a trusted advisor to senior leadership on critical decisions impacting program success

Stakeholder Alignment & Accountability

• Engage and influence senior stakeholders across Quality, R&D, Operations, and Commercial functions
• Drive alignment on priorities, roles, and expected outcomes across the workstream
• Reinforce accountability by establishing clear ownership, governance structures, and performance expectations
• Ensure delivery of committed outcomes, proactively addressing gaps and risks to execution

Required Qualifications:

• A minimum of a Bachelors Degree.
• Minimum of 10 years of experience in complaint trending, post market surveillance, or related experience.
• Medical device experience required.
• Experience participating in strategic planning processes, and able to understand and identify critical drivers of strategy. 
• Experience at identifying and clearly articulating plans within a highly matrixed, global organization.
• Ability to use data and inputs to conduct SWOT analyses, predict future state, build scenarios

Preferred Qualifications:

• MBA or advanced degree preferred
• High sense of urgency and commitment to execution 
• Strong communication and collaborative leadership skills 
• Ability to serve as a consultant; use adept questioning to get beyond symptoms to root causes; able to identify, separate and synthesize the key points; able to tailor complex messages to different audiences; a pragmatic problem-solver who can imagine the possible, and make it practical.
• Ability to lead without authority and facilitate agreement on paths forwards with teams to create coherent alignment towards end goals.

Requisition ID: 627805 

Minimum Salary: $ 162400 

Maximum Salary: $ 308600 

The anticipated compensation listed above and the value of core and optional employee benefits offered by Boston Scientific (BSC) – see www.bscbenefitsconnect.com—will vary based on actual location of the position and other pertinent factors considered in determining actual compensation for the role. Compensation will be commensurate with demonstrable level of experience and training, pertinent education including licensure and certifications, among other relevant business or organizational needs. At BSC, it is not typical for an individual to be hired near the bottom or top of the anticipated salary range listed above.

Compensation for non-exempt (hourly), non-sales roles may also include variable compensation from time to time (e.g., any overtime and shift differential) and annual bonus target (subject to plan eligibility and other requirements).

Compensation for exempt, non-sales roles may also include variable compensation, i.e., annual bonus target and long-term incentives (subject to plan eligibility and other requirements).

For MA positions: It is unlawful to require or administer a lie detector test for employment. Violators are subject to criminal penalties and civil liability.

Boston Scientific transforms lives through innovative medical technologies that improve the health of patients around the world. As a global medical technology leader for more than 45 years, we advance science for life by providing a broad range of high-performance solutions that address unmet patient needs and reduce the cost of healthcare. Our portfolio of devices and therapies helps physicians diagnose and treat complex cardiovascular, respiratory, digestive, oncological, neurological and urological diseases and conditions. Learn more at www.bostonscientific.com and follow us on LinkedIn.

Boston Scientific Corporation has been and will continue to be an equal opportunity employer. To ensure full implementation of its equal employment policy, the Company will continue to take steps to assure that recruitment, hiring, assignment, promotion, compensation, and all other personnel decisions are made and administered without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, citizenship, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, veteran status, age, mental or physical disability, genetic information or any other protected class.

Please be advised that certain US based positions, including without limitation field sales and service positions that call on hospitals and/or health care centers, require acceptable proof of COVID-19 vaccination status.  Candidates will be notified during the interview and selection process if the role(s) for which they have applied require proof of vaccination as a condition of employment.  Boston Scientific continues to evaluate its policies and protocols regarding the COVID-19 vaccine and will comply with all applicable state and federal law and healthcare credentialing requirements.   As employees of the Company, you will be expected to meet the ongoing requirements for your roles, including any new requirements, should the Company’s policies or protocols change with regard to COVID-19 vaccination.

Among other requirements, Boston Scientific maintains specific prohibited substance test requirements for safety-sensitive positions.  This role is deemed safety-sensitive and, as such, candidates will be subject to a prohibited substance test as a requirement.  The goal of the prohibited substance testing is to increase workplace safety in compliance with the applicable law.