Standard Excellence Manager

Key Responsibilities Standards

• Own the end‑to‑end enterprise standards framework, including definition, governance, risk classification, lifecycle control, and continuous improvement of operational and quality standards.
• Translate regulatory, corporate, and business strategy requirements into clear, practical, and actionable standards that enable consistent execution across all EU manufacturing sites and operations.
• Establish and maintain robust governance mechanisms to control the development, approval, deployment, change, of standards, ensuring clear accountability.
• Ensure standards are inspection‑ready by design, risk‑based in structure, and fully integrated into SOPs, training programmes, and site processes rather than existing as standalone documentation.
• Act as the single point of accountability for interpretation of enterprise standards, providing authoritative guidance to sites and operating units to prevent ambiguity, local deviation, and unintended variability.

• Lead enterprise quality excellence initiatives focused on loss elimination, defect prevention, variability reduction, and right‑first‑time performance, aligned to QSCP and business objectives.
• Embed standard work, root‑cause problem solving, and continuous improvement disciplines as everyday behaviours, not one‑off initiatives.
• Proactively identify systemic quality risks and recurring failure modes through structured analysis of deviations, CAPAs, complaints, audit findings, and performance data.
• Drive cross‑site learning by identifying repeat issues and translating lessons learned into standard updates, governance improvements, or targeted interventions.
• Actively support progression of site quality maturity, balancing compliance, efficiency, and operational effectiveness.

• Build sustainable organisational capability by defining clear deployment models for standards, supported by training, coaching, and effectiveness checks.
• Operate as a trusted subject‑matter expert across sites, regions, and global functions, providing hands‑on support for implementation challenges and complex interpretation topics.
• Lead and support enterprise‑level change activity, ensuring new or updated standards are adopted consistently and effectively, with appropriate stakeholder engagement and readiness.
• Ensure change is measured and sustained through clear success criteria, post‑implementation review, and feedback loops into governance processes.

• Define and own enterprise‑level KPIs for standardisation, quality maturity, and governance effectiveness, ensuring alignment between site performance and enterprise expectations.
• Use performance data to challenge inconsistencies, identify losses, and prioritise improvement actions across sites.
• Drive tangible reductions in Cost of Poor Quality by linking standards compliance to loss elimination, defect reduction, and prevention of repeat failures.
• Provide clear, insight‑driven reporting to Management Review and Quality Council forums, enabling senior leaders to make informed decisions on risk, prioritisation, and investment.

• Partner closely with Operations, Quality, EHS, Supply Chain, and other functions to ensure standards are operationally practical, risk‑appropriate, and value‑adding.
• Actively support audit readiness and regulatory inspections by ensuring standards are not only compliant on paper but demonstrably effective in practice.
• Use audit outcomes, inspection observations, and external benchmarks to continuously strengthen enterprise standards and governance maturity.

• Bachelor’s degree in a scientific, quality, or related technical discipline, or equivalent professional experience in related environments.
• 5–8 years’ progressive experience in quality systems, operational excellence, and enterprise standards governance within regulated or complex manufacturing and operational environments.
• Proven experience defining, governing, and deploying enterprise standards and standard work across multi‑site organisations, ensuring consistency while accommodating…