Director, Strategy and Standards Quality

Role Overview

• Work in conjunction with the Global Quality Leader to build, direct, and sustain a comprehensive global Quality strategy aligned with enterprise business objectives.
• Define strategic priorities focused on global standardization, enterprise tool development (including AI enablement), and the advancement of a prevention-focused Quality culture across Dematic.
• Own enterprise-level Quality deliverables, encompassing strategy rollout, operational efficiency, and tangible business outcomes.
• Provide executive-level updates to the Dematic Leadership Team on strategy progress, risks, and outcomes.
• Influence and coordinate regional Quality leaders to guarantee uniform implementation and continuous improvement of global Quality strategy, standards, and cultural expectations.
• Establish and own global governance models, performance frameworks, and accountability mechanisms to ensure regional and functional compliance and results.
• Take responsibility for company-wide reduction of cost of poor quality, margin improvement, revenue protection, and sustained customer happiness by implementing systemic prevention strategies.
• Serve as a primary advisor to senior leadership on Quality standards, enterprise tools, strategic risks, and trade-off decisions.
• Build and continuously develop the Strategy and Standards Quality function, including talent planning, succession management, and leadership growth to support future enterprise needs.
• Lead enterprise culture-change initiatives that embed prevention, accountability, teamwork, and continuous improvement across the Quality organization.
• Define enterprise workflows, decision rights, operating rhythms, and cross-functional engagement models to enable consistent execution and achievement of global and regional benchmarks.
• Develop and manage Quality strategy budgets, resource plans, and multi-year business plans in partnership with the Global Quality Leader.
• Ensure outstanding Quality practices across suppliers, operations, manufacturing, projects, customers, and management systems through global standards and governance.
• Monitor, analyze, and present enterprise Quality performance trends, risks, and forward-looking insights to executive leadership to inform strategic decision-making.
• Establish blocking issue paths, decision frameworks, and systemic solutions to ensure complex, cross-functional Quality issues are resolved effectively and prevented from recurrence.
• Define enterprise Quality measurement strategies, scorecards, and performance indicators to drive accountability and sustained improvement.
• Enable enterprise learning by identifying, standardizing, and scaling guidelines across regions and functions.

Requirements

• Preferred 10+ years of relevant experience.
• 5+ years of leadership experience in a global, high-growth, fast-paced environment.
• Demonstrated leadership capabilities align with Dematic and KION Core Values of Integrity, Collaboration, Courage, and Excellence.
• Experience in managing the quality of multiple large scale complex projects in a dynamic setting.
• Experience in developing ISO compliant globally coordinated Quality Systems.
• Proven experience in the use of improvement tools such as Lean, SS, 5S, Value Stream/Process Mapping, Kaizen, Build of Experiments and/or other similar tools.
• Proven experience driving an effective corrective action system.
• Ability to travel approximately 25-35%.
• Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering or related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• A Master’s Degree or equivalent experience is preferred.
• ASQ and/or PMP certifications preferred.

Tech Stack

• PMP

Benefits

• Career Development
• Competitive Compensation and Benefits
• Pay Transparency
• Global Opportunities