Job Description

Job Location: Mumbai / Bangalore
Reports To : GM-Quality Assurance Sr. Manager _Quality Assurance :
As part of the team heading Quality under the 3 group companies, you will be reporting to the GM at the group level. You will play a key role in bringing about Quality excellence in core areas of Evolute group - driving transformation, building capabilities and driving agility. This role should be at the forefront of bringing in operational excellence to be organisation.


The opportunity:
The position is on a Senior Manager category. The candidate should have handled leadership roles prior than this in line with respect to Quality and transformational initiatives. It is a fantastic opportunity to lead a multi-business organisation front-end by bringing about change in quality , adapting to new digital agenda, hinge onto new technologies and lead people towards quality excellence.


Key responsibilities include:
1. Strategic responsibilities: -

• Responsible for driving QA strategy, approach, and execution in development projects.
• Implement and manage Quality Management Systems
• Responsible for department and cross functional department training.
• Build a long-term vision for the organization in terms of quality across the different groups
• Facilitate the development of the QA strategy, methodology, discipline and framework. Driving and improving the QA and QC team in core .
• Monitoring of all the QA activities, test results, leaked defects, root cause analysis and identifying areas of improvement. Implement steps required to improve the processes.

2. Functional responsibilities: -

• Devise procedures to inspect and report quality issues
• Monitor all operations that affect quality
• Monitor all operations that affect quality
• Assure the reliability and consistency of production by checking processes and final output
• Appraise customers' requirements and make sure they are satisfied
• Report all malfunctions to production executives to ensure immediate action
• Facilitate proactive solutions by collecting and analyzing quality data
• Review current standards and policies
• Keep records of quality reports, statistical reviews and relevant documentation
• Ensure all legal standards are met
• Communicate with external quality assurance officers during on-site inspections
• Approval of the vendor or supplier of the materials as per the SOP.
• To ensure timely review and revision of SOPs of all the departments and its issuance and retrieval as well maintenance of master SOPs, to ensure effective compliance of SOP management.
• To Conduct self-inspection as a lead auditor as per the procedure. Monitor the effective execution of self-inspection and suggest the CAPA to the audit findings.

To qualify for the role, you must have: -

• Engineering degree (Electronics OR Equivalent degree) +MBA with 10-12 years of exp in electronic manufacturing industry
• Proven work experience as Manager/Sr. Manager Role in Quality Assurance and Control
• Experience building and managing high performing Quality Assurance and Quality control team .
• Be a strong leader with experience in implementing and shaping the company's QA processes and strategies.
• Experience in implementing the ISO 9001/9000, Total Quality Management processes and certifications
• Competence to influence a group of individuals to become followers in the achievement of Quality goals
• Excellent knowledge of Risk Management, Risk Identification and Risked Based Testing.

Key attributes for success: -

• Team management and people skills -Existing & Building New team as & when required
• Exhibits strong interpersonal and customer service skills & Exhibits awareness of best Quality practices and methods
• Collaborative mind-set to create synergies with fellow peers and heads of group companies
• Result oriented with effective time management and smart decision making
• Adopt a consultative Quality Assurance approach and display situational leadership
• Demonstrates solid motivational, leadership skills, ability to think creatively & strong organizational skills
• Work requires professional written and verbal communication and interpersonal skills
• Ability to develop, plan, and implement short and long-term goals
• Strong analytical and project management skills
• Strategic mind-set, with ability to make difficult decisions

You will earn brownie points if you have: -

• Ability to inspire confidence through your communication and actions and display high degree of integrity, trust, maturity and situational sensitivity
• Strong customer orientation coupled with a mindset to continuously raise the bar in quality of overall customer experience and interaction.