Quality Performance & Value Lead

3390 Baxalta U.S.•Round Lake, IL

20h•Onsite

About The Position

The Quality Performance & Value Lead turns strategy into value by focusing the Quality organization’s resources, capabilities, and improvement efforts on priorities that deliver the greatest impact for patients, compliance, performance, and business outcomes. The role drives organizational focus, performance, and value realization through strategic prioritization and portfolio management, performance and value creation, and culture and strategic partnerships. The position provides Site Quality scope across Quality functions and works closely with Business Excellence, DD&T, Finance, Communications, E&C, HR/Learning, Operations, PDT Quality Operations & Performance, BU/OpU Quality, and Global Quality stakeholders. It contributes to Quality-wide planning, prioritization, value tracking, and resource focus; formal budget ownership remains with the relevant cost center owners. The role leads through influence and matrix leadership across initiative owners, Quality leaders, cross-functional partners, and transformation contributors. The role operates across multiple Quality functions, priorities, interfaces, and transformation demands. It partners closely with the Site Quality Head, Site Quality Leadership Team, other Heads of Quality Performance & Value, and the Head of PDT Quality Operations & Performance. Occasional domestic or international travel may be required depending on site and network needs.

Requirements

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Science, Engineering, Business, Quality, Operations, or a related field.
Significant experience in Quality, manufacturing, supply, business excellence, transformation, strategy deployment, or a related area within a regulated industry.
Broad understanding of Quality functions, including QA, QC, Quality Systems, Compliance, continuous improvement, and site Quality operations.
Demonstrated experience leading cross-functional initiatives, portfolio management, performance improvement, or value creation.
Strong strategic thinking, analytical, communication, and stakeholder-management skills.
Demonstrated ability to influence senior stakeholders and deliver results without direct authority.
Strong business and financial acumen.
Ability to use data, structured problem solving, and executive-ready insights to frame decisions and drive performance improvement.
Proven capability in strategic prioritization, portfolio management, performance management, and business insight generation.
Ability to influence across a matrixed environment and build partnerships across functions and levels.
Ability to challenge the status quo constructively and redirect effort toward higher-value, sustainable outcomes.
Ability to manage ambiguity and competing priorities while maintaining focus on value, compliance, and patient impact.

Nice To Haves

Experience with digital enablement, data-driven performance management, portfolio management, resource prioritization, or OPEX/CAPEX prioritization.
Lean, Six Sigma, Agile, project management, change management, or similar certification.

Responsibilities

Translate Quality, site, PDT, and global priorities into a focused and actionable Quality roadmap.
Lead Quality portfolio management and prioritization within the broader governance framework.
Align resources, investments, and leadership attention to the highest-value opportunities.
Provide portfolio transparency, performance insights, and an integrated view of strategic priorities.
Drive sustainable improvements in Quality performance and organizational effectiveness.
Strengthen execution discipline, accountability, and performance transparency.
Lead simplification, performance improvement, and value creation initiatives.
Translate strategic initiatives into measurable Quality and business outcomes.
Strengthen organizational capabilities and digital readiness.
Enable adoption of new ways of working and successful implementation of strategic and organizational change.
Integrate priorities across QA, QC, Quality Systems, Compliance, and partner functions.
Serve as a trusted advisor and partner to Quality leadership and key cross-functional stakeholders, enabling alignment, collaboration, and effective decision-making.
Foster a culture of ownership, learning, and continuous evolution across Quality.
Act as an integrator across Quality functions, enabling internal partners and global programs to engage effectively with Quality and translate priorities into aligned local execution.
Provide recommendations on the Quality roadmap, portfolio priorities, resource focus, performance, and value creation opportunities.
Challenge misaligned initiatives, propose reprioritization, and escalate trade-offs to the Site Quality Head / QLT.
Influence decisions affecting Quality performance, resource allocation, ways of working, culture, and strategic execution.
Identify opportunities to simplify, harmonize, digitize, or automate Quality processes where this improves performance, compliance, or user experience.
Partner with DD&T, Business Excellence, and Quality teams to embed digital and data-driven ways of working where they create value.
Promote learning, practical experimentation, and adoption of good practices across Quality.
Manage ambiguity and competing priorities while maintaining focus on value, compliance, and patient impact.