Quality Performance & Value Lead

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Job Description

Title: Quality Performance & Value Lead

Location: Libertyville (Round Lake Innovation Park), IL (Onsite)

About the role:

As the Quality Performance & Value Lead, you will turn strategy into value by ensuring the Quality organization focuses its resources, capabilities, and improvement efforts on the priorities that deliver the greatest impact for patients, compliance, performance, and business outcomes. Through Strategic Prioritization & Portfolio Management, Performance & Value Creation, and Culture & Strategic Partnerships, the role drives organizational focus, performance, and value realization across the Quality organization. You will provide Site Quality scope across Quality functions, with strong partnership across Business Excellence, DD&T, Finance, Communications, E&C, HR/Learning, Operations, PDT Quality Operations & Performance, BU/OpU Quality and Global Quality stakeholders. You will contribute to Quality-wide planning (MRP/MYC), prioritization, value tracking and resource focus; formal budget ownership remains with the relevant cost center owners. Leads through influence and matrix leadership across initiative owners, Quality leaders, cross-functional partners and transformation contributors.

How will you contribute:

• 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 change.
• Integrate priorities across QA, QC, Quality Systems, Compliance, and partner functions.
• Serve as a trusted advisor to Quality leadership and key cross-functional stakeholders.
• Foster a culture of ownership, learning and continuous evolution across Quality.
• Strengthen organizational capabilities and digital readiness to support future business needs. Enable adoption of new ways of working and support successful implementation of strategic and organizational changes across the Quality organization.
• Act as the integrator across QA, QC, Quality Systems and Compliance, enabling internal partners and global programs to engage effectively with Quality and translate priorities into aligned local execution. Serve as a trusted partner to the Site Quality Head, SQLT and key cross-functional stakeholders, enabling alignment, collaboration and effective decision-making.
• Strong understanding of Quality Management Systems, GxP expectations, Quality operations and the end-to-end Quality ecosystem.
• Financial and business acumen to support prioritization of budget, resources and value creation across Quality.
• 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.
• Create clarity, focus and alignment around the few priorities that create the greatest patient, compliance, performance and business value.
• Influence across a matrixed environment without direct authority and builds strong partnerships across functions and levels.
• Challenge the status quo constructively and redirects effort toward higher-value, sustainable outcome.
• Role-models enterprise thinking, patient focus, Quality mindset and pragmatic execution.
• Provide recommendations on Quality roadmap, portfolio priorities, resource focus, performance and value creation opportunities. Has autonomy to challenge misaligned initiatives, propose re-prioritization and escalate trade-offs to the Site Quality Head / QLT.
• Influence decisions impacting 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.

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