Minimum 15 years of progressive leadership experience across product quality, reliability, engineering, manufacturing, supplier quality, or service, including significant executive responsibility for multi-site, multi-product-line quality performance
Demonstrated success leading an end-to-end quality transformation and delivering sustained improvements in product reliability, warranty cost, consumer experience, supplier performance, and operational quality
Strong business and financial acumen, translating quality performance into consumer, brand, margin, cash, and risk outcomes
Deep expertise in quality systems, reliability, APQP/PPAP, DFMEA/PFMEA, validation, supplier and manufacturing quality, safety, compliance, field quality, and root-cause problem solving
Proven success leading complex, cross-functional transformation through clear governance, decision rights, metrics, and accountability
Strong command of digital quality systems, advanced analytics, and AI-enabled early-warning methods