Taconic Biosciences is hiring a
Vice President Global Quality & Compliance

Summary

Join Taconic Biosciences as a Vice President Global Quality & Compliance to lead the company's quality system and compliance strategies. The ideal candidate will be a dynamic and collaborative leader with experience in leading quality and transformation efforts across a matrixed global organization.

Requirements

• Master’s degree in business, science, or engineering required
• Six Sigma and Lean Leadership required
• Strong interpersonal skills and ability to effectively communicate with teams across the entire organization
• Excellent leadership and decision-making skills
• 15+ years of experience leading quality and transformation efforts across a matrixed global organization
• 10+ years success providing direct leadership and mentorship to a team
• Experience working in a regulated environment with required government and customer audits and inspections
• Significant experience managing all aspects of Quality Management System and Operational Excellence activities

Responsibilities

• Deliver exceptional animal quality, maintain global AALAC accreditation and compliance with local laws
• Collaborate with the training team to ensure animal care employees receive appropriate training both at onboarding and throughout their employment
• Own Taconic animal care and use program as well as program description
• Works closely with the CEO to ensure animal quality for the company
• Provide executive leadership for quality assurance, customer quality and supplier quality teams including establishing objectives and KPIs
• Understand and deliver on the customer’s expectations through proactive, predictive, and analytical management practices
• Reduce preventable costs and errors through root cause identification in the initial process or product to prevent future incidents via process re-engineering and technology
• Track and address customer quality issues and drive improvements in key KPIs
• Decrease waste through efficient enterprise-wide management through standardization of processes and metrics
• Provide executive leadership to cross company continuous improvement program
• Execute CI transformation plan to streamline workflows, ensure employee safety and engagement, maximize customer and employee satisfaction, and reduce costs
• Gain short-term and long-term cost controls through elimination of non-value add or non-standard quality processes and functions
• Understand and drive the shareholder value, growth and profitability expectations
• Contribute to development of corporate vision and strategy
• Translate organizational strategy into departmental goals and objectives
• Model the customer focus value by engaging with peers in client and partner companies
• Align multiple organizational units towards a common strategy and culture
• Building relationships across the company, providing insightful feedback to the management and quality team on quality issues, opportunities and ways to improve strategic priorities
• Allocate and Manage Organizational Resources
• Build business cases to support initiatives which are financially viable and supportive of company strategy
• Efficiently utilize company resources to achieve short- and long-term company objectives
• Ensure company policies and values are followed throughout the company
• Engage and Develop Employees
• Build a high performing team
• Actively support the performance management system (goals, feedback, and recognition), in a way that is aligned with the strategy

Benefits

Annual salary will be $250,000 - $270,000