Vice President, Quality

We’re looking for people who put their innovation to work to advance our success – and their own. Join an organization that ensures a more secure world through connecting and protecting our customers with inventive electrical solutions. The Vice President of Quality is an enterprise leadership role accountable for enterprise quality performance, not just quality systems. This leader will define and execute nVent’s quality strategy across the full value chain, with direct accountability for improving customer escapes, cost of poor quality, first-pass yield, supplier quality performance, warranty performance, product reliability, on-time-to-customer impact, and launch quality.

The role will shift quality from a primarily compliance- and governance-centered function to a performance-driving enterprise capability that improves customer outcomes, operational execution, and business growth. Reporting to the Chief Supply Chain Officer, the Vice President Quality will serve as the senior-most quality leader for nVent, setting the vision, operating model, performance expectations, capabilities, and accountability mechanisms required to scale quality as nVent grows.

This leader will partner closely with segment presidents, operations, engineering, product management, sourcing and procurement, digital, commercial, legal, and finance leaders to embed quality into business decision-making and deliver measurable improvements in customer experience, reliability, warranty, launch readiness, supplier performance, operational quality, and quality-related business risk.

Enterprise Quality Performance and Accountability Own enterprise quality performance outcomes, including customer escapes, cost of poor quality, first-pass yield, supplier quality, warranty, reliability, launch quality, and the impact of quality issues on on-time-to-customer performance. Translate quality strategy into measurable business results, ensuring quality priorities are directly connected to customer experience, operational performance, growth, profitability, and risk reduction. Establish clear enterprise, segment, region, business unit, and site-level accountability for the quality metrics that matter most to customers and the business.

Lead operating reviews that move beyond reporting activity to identifying performance gaps, driving root cause ownership, and sustaining measurable improvement.

New Product Quality and Launch Excellence Elevate new product quality as a core enterprise capability, ensuring quality is designed into high-growth platforms, strategic programs, and critical infrastructure solutions from concept through launch and field performance. Partner with engineering, product management, operations, and commercial leaders to strengthen quality planning, design validation, process validation, risk assessment, reliability requirements, and launch readiness across major programs such as Saturn, Avatar, Data Solutions growth initiatives, and other strategic launches.

Ensure robust NPI quality gates, readiness reviews, and escalation criteria are in place to prevent launch defects, customer escapes, warranty exposure, and reliability issues. Build feedback loops from field performance, warranty, customer quality, and manufacturing quality data into product development and launch processes.

Digital Quality, Analytics, and Enterprise Quality Intelligence Lead the evolution of digital quality as an enterprise capability, including predictive quality, AI-enabled risk detection, manufacturing quality analytics, digital traceability, and enterprise quality intelligence. Partner with Digital and Integrated Supply Chain leaders to modernize eQMS capabilities, automate quality…