Senior Director of EMEIA - Quality Varian

Senior Director of EMEIA - Quality Varian

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UK (Crawley) or Germany (Kemnath)

• As Head of Quality, EMEIA, you will provide strategic leadership to multiple global quality teams, developing a high‑performing organization, fostering a culture of accountability, continuous improvement, and effective cross‑functional collaboration.
• You are responsible for developing the quality management strategy for the EMEIA region in alignment with global quality management systems, quality, and corporate goals.
• You handle communication with authorities and are responsible for processes to meet internal and external regulations.
• You are responsible for budget planning for global quality programs and coordinate the budget plan with the organizational unit.
• You analyze and develop local quality data to identify problems or deviations.

• You have a degree in engineering, life sciences, regulatory affairs, or a comparable field.
• You have many years of relevant professional experience in quality management in a highly regulated environment, ideally in medical technology, imaging, diagnostics, or similar.
• You also have extensive professional and disciplinary leadership experience in large, geographically distributed teams in a matrix organization, ideally with a focus on quality, R&D, regulatory affairs, and post‑market.
• You have solid experience working with authorities and solving complex regulatory issues.
• Ideally, you are familiar with agile, lean, and digital transformation processes in a regulatory environment.
• In‑depth knowledge of EU MDR/IVDR, ISO 13485, MDSAP, and relevant national regulations, as well as experience with integrated quality/regulatory management systems and digital tools, completes your profile.

• You have fluent English skills and German if you are Kemnath based, as well as excellent communication, problem‑solving, and negotiation skills in both languages.
• You are implementation‑oriented and ensure the sustainable anchoring of innovative solutions and processes – you are passionate about continuously developing existing processes using digital and AI tools.
• You stand out with decisiveness, transparency, and leadership strength in uncertain or changing regulatory environments.
• Personally, you pursue the overarching goal of creating a world without fear of cancer every day, striving for continuous improvement, quality is close to your heart, and you are happy to implement our high standards together with the team.
• Your profile is rounded off by a strong motivation for continuous process improvement and openness to change.

As an equal opportunity employer, we welcome applications from individuals with disabilities.