Executive Director, Quality Systems GxP Platform Lead

About this role

Job Title: Executive Director, Quality Systems GxP Platform Lead
Job Location: Thousand Oaks, California, United States
Job Location Type: Remote
Job Contract Type: Full-time
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Executive Director, GxP Quality Execution Platforms
What you will do
Let’s do this. Let’s change the world. In this vital role you will lead the strategy, operating model, and lifecycle ownership for enterprise GxP Quality Execution Platforms. This role converts core quality processes from manual, process-centric execution into scalable, workflow-, rule-, and data-driven digital platforms that are inspection-ready, adoption-led, and aligned with the GxP Quality Operating Model.
Responsibilities:

• Operationalize the GxP Quality Operating Model vision and strategy evolving from digitized Quality Management System through AI-enabled to advanced AI-orchestrated with full autonomy across foundational quality processes. Relevant to that, own business strategy includes driving development and endorsement of business case needs for funding, roadmap, and lifecycle governance for enterprise GxP quality execution platforms, including event and issue management, audit/inspection mgmt., document and knowledge, change control, supplier management, and other priority execution workflows.

• Partnering across sites and functions, process, and technology requirements inclusive of control requirements, workflow and business-rule requirements, escalation requirements, user needs, and business acceptance criteria that translate into measurable business outcomes.

• Drive the evolution from process-centric Quality Management System (QMS) operations toward platform-enabled quality execution consistent with the future-state Quality Operating Model supporting the GxP continuum. This is inclusive of developing the organizational construct required to sustain this digital QMS evolution. Directionally role will oversee a group of 10 to 15 professional staff from Sr. Director to Specialist level as appropriate based on design of organization.

• Establish platform operating disciplines for intake, prioritization, release governance, defect management, service health, and value realization.

• Partner with R&D, Operations, Quality, Regulatory, Enterprise Technology & Data Governance (ETDG), and external partners to ensure platform solutions meet business, compliance, and inspection-readiness expectations.

• Lead adoption, process harmonization, and business readiness for deployed platforms, including role-based enablement and performance support.

• Define platform health metrics, operational KPIs, and value measures tied to quality, compliance, speed, user experience, and ROI.

• Ensure platforms are designed and operated in a manner that supports auditability, contemporaneous evidence, data integrity, and sustainable lifecycle management.

• Serve as the senior quality business owner for platform priorities and represent the platform portfolio in executive governance and health authority discussions, as needed.

What this role owns:

• Business ownership of GxP Quality Execution Platforms. This role may have operational execution of one or more of these workflows as well as the overall capabilities of QOSS evolves.

• Digital Platform roadmaps and investment priorities for each workflow and business-rule implementation in the platforms

• Platform operations, release governance, and service performance translated into significant Return on Investment and business outcomes

• User adoption, process harmonization, and business readiness

• Translation of governance and control requirements into platform design

Critical role interfaces:

• The need to understand the overarching business strategy in R&D and Operations is paramount to working with and aligning with other critical programs and their interdependencies and needs for the QMS platform work and delivering in tandem to drive business results.

• This role will have critical groups it engages with that together aim at delivering the integrated GxP QOM vision and strategy as follows:

• Quality Risk & System Governance: receives control standards, escalation logic, governance requirements, and management review requirements partners to embed them into platform workflows and evidence outputs.

• Digital Business Platform (Capability) Owner - primarily owns business outcomes of a digital capability - owns the end-to-end business digital capability, defining the vision, priorities, operating model, and value realization while driving the adoption.

• Head of Technology (Client-Facing Technology - IT) - primarily owns Technology strategy & delivery - Owns the technology strategy, architecture, engineering, and lifecycle management required to deliver secure, scalable, and AI-ready digital capabilities that enable the business vision.

• Lead, AI & Data Science (Business) - primarily…