VP Quality, Global Life Sciences
Listed on 2026-06-13
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Quality Assurance - QA/QC
Regulatory Compliance Specialist, Quality Engineering, Quality Control / Manager, QA Specialist / Manager
VP Quality, Global Life Sciences
As VP Quality, Global Life Sciences you will be accountable for the enterprise quality vision, strategy, and operating model across Ecolab’s Life Sciences business globally, including Bioprocessing, Purification Technologies, and Pharma and Personal Care (PPC). You will have end‑to‑end responsibility for the global compliance and quality management system as well as the performance of site quality operations across the manufacturing network, with direct leadership of plant quality managers, site quality organizations, and quality control laboratories.
Responsible for building a world‑class quality organization that ensures product quality, patient safety, regulatory compliance, inspection readiness, and reliable supply, you will drive and enable growth, innovation, and operational excellence in highly regulated markets.
The VP Global Quality, Life Sciences reports to the VP Global Quality for Ecolab and serves as a key member of Ecolab’s Quality leadership team as well as a strategic partner to Regulatory/Compliance, RDE, Supply Chain, Operations, and Business leadership to drive enterprise risk management, strengthen quality culture, and deliver sustained competitive advantage.
What You Will Do- Develop and execute the quality vision and strategy for the Life Sciences divisions
- Partner with business and technical teams to build a culture that embeds Quality as a foundation of the business
- Lead QMS process improvements to meet customer quality expectations and global regulatory requirements
- Provide leadership for design controls, post‑market vigilance, supplier controls, and associated quality processes, including CAPA, complaints, and internal and external audits
- Provide executive leadership for plant quality managers, site quality teams, and quality control laboratories across the Life Sciences manufacturing network, ensuring strong site quality performance, laboratory excellence, disciplined release governance, and alignment to global quality standards
- Benchmark industry and Ecolab best practices and optimize the quality organization, including organizational design, QMS, and talent development
- Ensure the Quality System complies with all applicable quality and regulatory requirements in the markets where products are manufactured, marketed, and distributed, and aligns with Ecolab quality policies
- Proactively address customer feedback and ensure CAPA and other resolutions meet customer and regulatory expectations while driving continuous improvement
- Ensure new and modified products are supported by current design and quality plans that meet customer, regulatory, and supply chain requirements
- Build capabilities to support new business lines and processing or material changes that improve product cost, quality, and performance
- Build customer and regulator audit capabilities that are well understood, streamlined, and a source of competitive advantage
- Own governance and capability building for network quality performance, plant quality organizations, and quality laboratory operations, including standardization, talent development, quality risk escalation, and sustained inspection readiness across the manufacturing network
- Bachelor’s degree in a technical field such as engineering, biology, microbiology, or chemistry
- 15+ years of progressive experience in the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, medical device, or broader Life Sciences industry in quality or compliance leadership roles with increasing technical, operational, and organizational scope
- 10+ years of people leadership experience, including leading leaders and managing multi‑site quality organizations in a regulated manufacturing environment
- Experience leading organizations through global regulatory inspections and compliance expectations, with demonstrated accountability for inspection readiness, remediation, and sustained regulatory performance
- Experience with batch disposition, release governance, quality risk escalation, and quality decision‑making within regulated manufacturing operations
- Demonstrated success driving excellence in quality and change management in…
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