GMP Quality Excellence Manager

Company Overview

Aurorium is the materials innovation partner that helps global manufacturers harness the power of possibility making the world a better place. Their specialty ingredients and high-performance materials enhance quality of life, support health and wellness, and enable customers to deliver value-added solutions. Key industries served include healthcare, personal & home care, mobility, infrastructure, and specialty paper & packaging. A Responsible Care company follows the highest regulatory standards across all manufacturing facilities.

The company’s global integrated supply chain offers the customer product consistency, easy access, supply security, and reasonable turnaround on delivery. Aurorium is committed to operating at the highest levels of manufacturing consistency, quality control, and safety.

The GMP Quality Excellence Manager is a value-creation leadership role accountable for driving measurable improvements in cost, productivity, cash conversion, and customer performance across Aurorium’s GMP sites. This role leads enterprise quality transformation by reducing cost of poor quality (COPQ), improving right-first-time performance, accelerating batch release cycles, and ensuring audit-ready operations that mitigate regulatory and operational risk. Through standardization, digital enablement, and capability building, the role embeds sustainable quality excellence that directly supports EBITDA growth, cash generation, and customer reliability.

The role operates in a matrix environment, providing functional leadership to site quality teams while partnering with business, operations, supply chain, and commercial leaders.

This role is responsible for the enterprise quality excellence agenda across GMP sites, with accountability for delivering measurable improvements in financial and operational performance through quality. This role provides functional leadership to site quality teams (matrix reporting) and may provide targeted interim leadership support to stabilize performance where required.

• Lead and execute the GMP Quality Excellence strategy to deliver:
  • Reduction in cost of poor quality (scrap, rework, deviations)
  • Improvements in yield and right-first-time batch performance
  • Increased productivity through process standardization and waste elimination
• Establish and own value-linked KPIs, including:
  • COPQ reduction (% and absolute)
  • Right-first-time batch performance
  • Batch release cycle time (impacting working capital)
  • Customer complaint and deviation trends
• Identify and eliminate non-value-added activities within quality processes to improve efficiency and throughput
• Lead cross-site continuous improvement initiatives using Lean, Six Sigma, and root cause methodology

• Drive the effectiveness and efficiency of the Quality Management System (QMS) to support both compliance and operational performance
• Standardize quality processes, controls, and documentation across GMP sites to enable scalable and repeatable performance
• Ensure consistent application of GMP regulations while minimizing operational friction
• Conduct gap analyses and implement corrective actions to address compliance and performance gaps
• Lead and embed robust CAPA systems, ensuring sustainable resolution of systemic issues

• Drive the adoption of digital quality solutions to enhance productivity, data visibility, and compliance
• Develop and implement data dashboards and reporting frameworks to provide real-time visibility of quality and performance metrics
• Leverage statistical and predictive analytics (SPC) to proactively identify risks and improvement opportunities

• Partner with commercial, supply chain, and operations teams to ensure quality performance supports customer retention, growth, and OTIF delivery
• Reduce customer complaints and quality-related disruptions that impact revenue and reputation
• Embed customer-centric quality practices into site operations

• Ensure GMP sites maintain a state of continuous audit readiness, reducing regulatory and operational risk
• Lead internal and external audits and regulatory inspections
• Analyze audit findings and drive actions to strengthen compliance and prevent recurrence
• Mitigate risks that could impact site operations, product supply, or regulatory standing

• Build quality capability across GMP sites through structured training, coaching, and leadership development
• Develop site-level quality leadership to enable sustainable, self-sufficient performance improvement
• Foster a culture of accountability, continuous improvement, and operational excellence

• Collaborate across sites and functions to drive enterprise-wide alignment and knowledge sharing
• Partner with Operations, Engineering, Supply Chain, and Commercial teams to…