The quality function becomes essential in many sectors subject to increasingly strict standards and regulations. As the person in charge of the company’s quality approach, the Quality Director ensures the compliance of products and services with a focus on continuous improvement.
Defining or optimizing your quality strategy, supporting an audit or preparing for certification, improving performance… Our high-level quality experts can intervene rapidly in a wide variety of contexts.
Quality Director background and skills
Together with your in-house teams, you have developed and implemented your company’s quality policy at various production sites, on a national and/or international scale. You have defined methodologies and established indicators to assess the implementation of the quality policy.
Recognized as a quality ambassador, you know how to win over, train, and empower teams to continually improve the quality management system. You are also the preferred point of contact for external stakeholders, particularly certification bodies.
You additionally have a solid experience in managing strategic quality-related projects in transformation and improvement contexts.
Strengths of an executive interim Quality Director
• Expertise in Quality Methods and Tools: ISO 9001 – Six Sigma – FMEA – 5S – KAIZEN…
• Experience in the automotive, aerospace, agri-food, chemical, pharmaceutical sectors…
• Experience in the implementation of quality standards
• Good knowledge of current QHSE regulations and standards
Rigorous and methodical, you possess strong interpersonal skills enabling you to collaborate and negotiate with internal and external stakeholders.
Our assignments
6 to 12 months
assignments
Operational
management
C-level
roles
In France
or abroad
Quality control & continuous improvement: using executive interim management
Do you need to set up a non-conformance management system along with a corrective and preventive action plan? Are you planning to implement a new quality management tool? Are certain issues jeopardizing the sustainability of one of your certifications? Reach out to an interim executive to find immediate solutions to your quality challenges.
An assignment with Valtus
The right solution for your specific needs
Your Valtus Partner will identify your challenges and draw up a set of requirements to suggest a Quality Director who aligns with your needs.
During the assignment
The Quality Director you choose to work with will start by assessing your company’s specific situation and recommend a step-by-step action plan which he will then implement. Ongoing updates with the Valtus Partner and the executive interim occur throughout the assignment.
Concluding the assignment
The interim manager, along with the Valtus Partner, will present a final report, which will include his recommended next steps. He will prepare the files to be handed over to the person who might be taking over his role. We will request your feedback and invite you to take part in our client satisfaction survey.