Sr. Manager Quality Management

• Drive customer satisfaction and product field quality improvements.  Interface with the customer and Vertiv leadership to understand current issues, report performance metrics, and present 8D’s.  Organization cross functional teams to drive issue resolution utilizing discipline problem solving techniques.  Minimize customer operational risk when field issues, defects, recalls, or performance degradation events occur.

• →Provide monthly reports on offer performance and share with Regional Management and Global BU Quality Leaders. Present during Quality MBR when needed:
  • →Field failure pareto per product line (customer claims)
  • →Tech Support statistics
  • →Top customers / countries
  • →List of improvement actions (together with global BU and manufacturing plant)
  • →CoQ plant (mostly warranty)
  • →RTY with plant
  • →FFPY and Early Life Failures on the field <90 days (with services)
  • →Red Flags
• →Lead major escalations orchestration and resolution per BU, including GSA cases (Google, Microsoft…).  Present metrics and issue resolution to the customers.      Drive cross-functional teams to deliver containment and preventative actions with urgency.
• →Understand product roadmap evolution and secure readiness by regional BU quality and other relevant stakeholders.  Regular follow up with global BU quality and/or Offer Management in the region.
• →Monitor manufacturing quality performance for respective BU offers and support as needed.
• →Act as nexus among plants producing same BU products:
  • →Homogenize methods and processes across plants producing the same offers.
• →Regional quality representative for BU Quality QBRs and associated data source, as needed
• →Review RCA / 8D documents and aligned with other relevant stakeholders (project, business, etc…).
• →Be the respective site quality leaders when applicable.

• Bachelor´s degree, solid background in Quality, Manufacturing Operations and Customer Success Management
• 10+ years of experience and at least 5 years on a Manager level position
• Proficient in English

• Problem solving mindset
• Robust of customer satisfaction skills, stakeholder management
• Solid collaboration and partnership skills to work on a cross-functional level across different departments and levels of the Organization
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal
• Excellent organizational, analytical and interpersonal skills
• Ability to work and multi-task in a fast-paced environment
• Proficient in data analysis; ability to develop performance metrics and goals based on product and process data.
• Generate and present reports using Excel, PowerPoint and Vertiv system applications.
• Direct and relative experience conducting Root Causes and Correct Actions using 8D problem solving or similar techniques.
• Knowledge of Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (FMEA)
• Process evaluation and capability analysis - Six Sigma (DAMIC) experience a plus
• Knowledge in electrical, mechanical and firmware design and development, reliability and test validation
• Experience in product development cycle processes including production release, supplier qualification requirements, production qualification / validation processes and production testing.
• Working knowledge of power/electrical equipment, preferably in the data center market 

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•  High-Performance Culture• Customer Focus

•  Operational Excellence

•  Innovation

•  Financial Strength

• Own it
• Act with urgency
• Foster a customer-first mindset
• Think big and execute
• Lead by example
• Drive continuous improvement
• Learn and seek out development
• Promote transparent & open communication 

Vertiv (NYSE: VRT) brings together hardware, software, analytics and ongoing services to enable its customers’ vital applications to run continuously, perform optimally and grow with their business needs.  Vertiv solves the most important challenges facing today’s data centers, communication networks and commercial and industrial facilities with a portfolio of power, cooling and IT infrastructure solutions and services that extend from the cloud to the edge of the network. Headquartered in Westerville, Ohio, USA, Vertiv employs around 34,000 people and does business in more than 130 countries. Visit Vertiv.com to learn more.   

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