Vice President, Global Quality - Post Market

Boston Scientific • Maple Grove, MN

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About The Position

Develop and execute the enterprise strategic roadmap for Post-Market Quality Systems, ensuring alignment with corporate strategy, global regulatory trends, and business needs. Provide thought leadership on emerging regulatory changes and proactively guide the organization through evolving expectations related to complaint handling, vigilance, and product performance. Set and sustain a global organizational structure that is agile, high-performing, and capable of scaling with evolving business and regulatory demands. Build and mentor a high-performing global Post-Market Quality organization, fostering a culture of collaboration, accountability, and innovation. Equip teams with modern tools, technologies, and processes to enhance efficiency and enable real-time quality insights. Coordinate global audit-readiness activities and ensure headquarters and site audit performance reflects a culture of excellence and transparency. Maintain a strong compliance posture through proactive risk identification, issue escalation, and unified corrective action strategies. Serve as a key member of the Quality Management Board; lead governance activities that determine system coherence, compliance, and strategic focus. Provide executive oversight for the development, harmonization, and continuous improvement of SOPs, policies, and quality management processes. Influence decision-making and prioritization across functions, ensuring alignment of cross-functional efforts supporting Post-Market Quality Systems. Manage budgets, resource allocation, and timelines for key initiatives to ensure value delivery and operational optimization. Build a global organization that is efficient, effective and meets global strategic needs.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree required
• Minimum 15 years of progressive leadership experience in Quality and/or Regulatory within medical devices and/or pharmaceuticals
• Demonstrated success leading complex global, matrixed organizations and influencing diverse stakeholder groups
• Proven experience interacting directly with global regulatory bodies
• Strong track record developing and executing Quality strategies that translate into measurable operational and cultural improvements
• Exceptional leadership, communication, and relationship-building skills with a strong customer and patient focus
• High degree of integrity, sound judgment, and executive presence

Nice To Haves

• Advanced degree preferred
• Significant leadership experience in medical device Post-Market Quality, complaint handling, or vigilance
• Experience leading global transformation initiatives in Quality Systems

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Executive
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees