Sr. Director, Quality

Why Us? At Par Health, we believe great healthcare is built on getting the essentials right. We’re looking for passionate, talented individuals who share our commitment to improving lives. With a global workforce, we lead with pride and purpose—prioritizing quality and safety while fostering a culture of continuous improvement, accountability, and teamwork. Elevating the Essentials isn’t just our tagline, it’s the higher standard we live by every day. Job Description Summary The Sr. Director, Quality is responsible for a broad range of duties/functions that includes all Quality functions at the Hobart manufacturing sites. In this regard, this position is ultimately responsible for all quality functions at the Hobart Plant, and its Distribution Center. The Sr. Director, Quality is responsible for ensuring cGMP compliance and product quality while supporting broader site quality initiatives aligned with company objectives. This role provides strategic leadership in the development, implementation, and oversight of site quality systems to ensure that all manufacturing, testing, packaging, storage, and distribution activities meet regulatory standards and deliver the highest product quality. The Sr. Director leads and mentors quality assurance and quality control teams, oversees daily quality operations, and serves as a key partner to site leadership by providing guidance on quality and compliance across the organization. Hobart Plant Quality Responsible for establishing and maintaining quality systems, policies, processes, procedures and controls ensuring that performance and quality of products conform to established standards and agency guidelines to ensure customer satisfaction. Provide expertise and guidance in interpreting domestic and international regulations, agency guidelines and internal policies to assure compliance. This role serves as liaison between the company and the various governmental agencies and hosts all compliance regulatory inspections. This role will work directly with operating entities to ensure that inspections and audits are conducted on a continuing basis as specified to enforce requirements and meet specifications. Establish and ensure appropriate Quality Systems are implemented and maintained, including ongoing data analysis of product and process outputs to ensure early detection and response to quality concerns, and prevention of quality issues. Establish and ensure compliance with cGMPs, good housekeeping practices, employee hygiene and equipment sanitation; analyze plant error, salvage, spoilage reports and process statistics for significant findings and conclusions; work with Research and Development during new product start-ups and establish key checkpoints for new products and processes. Job Description ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS : Manages all aspects of plant Quality Systems including, CAPA, Supplier Quality, Change Control, in-process Quality Assurance, Quality Control, complaint investigation and validation functions.  Support an aggressive Quality program which instills personal accountability for accuracy, consistency and completeness for all operations and departments according to site and corporate policies. Create and maintain an environment of excellence, world-class quality and continuous improvement throughout the entire plant. Responsible to make fact-based, scientifically sound, quality decisions regarding products manufactured at the facility.  These decisions must be made within the requirements of cGMPs and applicable regulatory/industry guidance documents. Manage approval or rejection of starting materials, packaging materials, and intermediate, bulk and finished products per the appropriate regulations and documents. Ensure the evaluation of batch records and that all necessary testing is carried out. Approve specifications, sampling instructions, test methods and other QC procedures. Ensure the authorization of all controlled documents, including records retention. Ensure the monitoring and control of the manufacturing and Quality Control environments. Ensure compliance with cGMP standards. Ensure the appropriate process, equipment and facility validations meet expectations for validations, process capability, corrective actions and general compliance both for Corporate and for applicable regulatory agencies. Coach and develop the team to High Performance while fostering a culture of team ownership. Ensure team compliance with all policies, procedures and site/company regulations. Set clear vision by ensuring goals and objectives are aligned with site strategies and managing each team member’s performance management. Exhibit accountability and responsibility for an area or process in order to affect change and lead efforts and ideas to completion. Provide leadership for employee relations through effective communications, coaching, training and development and eliminate roadblocks in order for the team to move forward. Supply the highest level of internal and external customer service while having the ability to diplomatically challenge established procedures and systems. Lead team in continuous improvement activities and take control when faced with adversity while incorporating team input. Ensure proper maintenance and cleanliness of the department, premises and equipment. Measure and communicate team’s progress against individual, team and site goals and Key Performance Indicators (KPI’s). Lead and/or support investigations.  Author, approve and/review area quality and safety exceptions and investigation reports.  Ensure on-time completion of all corrective action items assigned to area. Verify, review and make appropriate changes if needed, to any controlled document pertinent to area of responsibility.  Identify opportunities to reduce costs, reduce risk and improve service. General Budget creation and management for Quality Departments (>$10MM). Defines requirements of department personnel