Vice President (f/m/d) Quality Management

Job summary

Define and enforce global quality frameworks, standards, governance, and assurance mechanisms across hardware, software, and services. Improve quality performance, customer outcomes, and cost management while building quality culture, organizational capabilities, and continuous improvement across international teams.

Job details

These Are Your Tasks Define and enforce global quality frameworks, standards, methods, and governance across hardware, software, and service offerings. Establish audit, monitoring, compliance, and independent assurance mechanisms for internal standards and external requirements. Set standards for software quality, validation, secure development, cybersecurity, and vulnerability management. Drive KPI-based quality performance, customer quality, warranty-cost reduction, non-quality-cost management, and continuous improvement. Strengthen quality culture, organizational capabilities, best-practice sharing, accountability, and continuous learning across an international organization. Who We Are Looking For Degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Quality Management, or a comparable field. Deep quality-management expertise spanning hardware, software, and services. Strong knowledge of software development lifecycles, testing, validation, and release processes incl. the understanding of cybersecurity principles and compliance requirements. Executive-level leadership with strong decision-making, implementation, customer orientation, and business insight. The confidence to challenge independently while building alignment across divergent interests and global teams. Note: Applicants (m/f/d) with a severe disability will be given preference if equally qualified. If you wish, please indicate your severe disability status in your application—on a voluntary basis. Land/Standort Ansbach or Saint Louis Funktionsbereich Qualitätsmanagement Einstiegslevel Führungspositionen Arbeitsmodus Hybrides Arbeiten Arbeitszeitmodell Vollzeit Arbeitszeit 40 h Arbeitsverhältnis unbefristet Unternehmensbereiche Diehl Metering Start 01.01.2027 Diese Benefits Bieten Wir Ihnen - Und Mehr Individuelle Entwicklungsmöglichkeiten Flexible Arbeitszeiten Onboarding-Progamm Betriebliche Altersvorsorge Homeoffice Mach bei Diehl, was dir wichtig ist. Diehl Metering GmbH Anne Segna +49 981 1806 550 Jetzt bewerben

What you’ll do

Define and enforce global quality frameworks, standards, governance, and assurance mechanisms across hardware, software, and services. Improve quality performance, customer outcomes, and cost management while building quality culture, organizational capabilities, and continuous improvement across international teams.

Requirements

A degree in engineering, computer science, quality management, or a comparable field is required, along with deep quality-management expertise across hardware, software, and services. The role calls for strong knowledge of software development, testing, validation, release processes, cybersecurity, and compliance, as well as executive leadership, sound business judgment, and the ability to align global teams.

Benefits

• Individual Development Opportunities
• Flexible Working Hours
• Onboarding Program
• Occupational Pension
• Work From Home

Listed skills

• Compliance · Preferred
• Validation · Preferred
• Continuous Improvement · Preferred

Other relevant skills

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• Quality Management
• Quality Frameworks
• Quality Standards
• Quality Governance
• Auditing
• Compliance
• Software Quality
• Software Development Lifecycles
• Testing
• Validation
• Release Processes
• Cybersecurity
• Vulnerability Management
• KPI-Based Performance Management
• Continuous Improvement
• Executive Leadership

Job areas

• Management & Leadership
• Manufacturing
• Engineering
• Technology