Global Quality Manager

BASF SE

1d • Onsite

About The Position

As an innovative partner, BASF’s Performance Chemicals division offers chemicals and catalysts for various customer industries, such as plastics, automotive, refining, lubricants, oilfield and mining. Our highly qualified and experienced team with outstanding market knowledge as well as our innovation platform and application know-how ensure our technological competence to provide excellent solutions to our customers.

We are seeking a professional like you to lead global quality excellence for our G/EVR business, working across multiple manufacturing sites and functions, ensuring consistent product performance, reliable delivery, and strengthening customer satisfaction.  In this role, you will champion proactive quality systems, drive cross-functional alignment, and steward initiatives that position quality as a strategic competitive advantage. As a Global Quality Manager, you create chemistry by...

Requirements

• Have a Bachelor’s degree in a technical discipline (Chemical Engineering, Chemistry, or related field).
• Possess 10+ years of relevant experience in quality, operations, or technical fields.
• Hold demonstrated ability in root-cause analysis and development of effective corrective actions.
• Have strong teamwork and collaboration skills across disciplines and cultures, with solid organizational awareness.
• Possess excellent written, verbal, and presentation capabilities, along with assertiveness and cross-functional influence.
• Have experience managing multiple priorities with a high level of self-motivation.
• Hold the ability to work 100% onsite at Attapulgus, GA with travel (10–20%) to additional sites.

Responsibilities

• Driving Quality Performance: Accelerating resolution of key quality issues by developing and implementing sustainable long-term solutions that support EBITDA and NCC objectives.
• Strengthening Quality Systems: Enhancing existing quality management tools and leading the development of new preventive systems to shift the organization from reactive to proactive quality management.
• Championing the Voice of the Customer: Ensuring customer and business needs are clearly represented across functions, especially for new team members, reinforcing consistency in decision-making and execution.
• Leading Special Quality Initiatives: Managing unique customer-driven quality requirements, capturing lessons learned, and embedding improvements to prevent issue recurrence.
• Managing Critical Quality Processes: Overseeing nonconformance management, customer complaint resolution, component specification alignment, and Blend/Component QA processes for all sites.
• Leading Governance & Teams: Facilitating LT Quality reviews, managing quality KPIs, and guiding Multi-Site Manufacturing Quality Teams to ensure strong execution and timely action closure.

Benefits

• Flexible work arrangements whenever possible
• Highly competitive retirement savings plan with company match and investment options
• Well-being programs that include comprehensive mental health support for you and your household family members
• Family forming benefits (fertility, adoption and surrogacy reimbursement, maternity/parental leave, and more)
• Back-up child and elder care with discount programs for families of all ages and stages
• Mentoring and career development opportunities that allow you to share, learn, and thrive
• Matching gifts program that allows you to deepen the impact of your contributions to qualified charities.
• Employee crisis support for when the unexpected happens
• Access to our BASF wine cellar, employee discounts, and much more!

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level