Senior Quality Risk Manager

Are you experienced in project management and quality risk assessment and can you ensure a holistic and clear end-to-end risk picture in our New Product Launch (NPL) projects and steer us towards a more proactive approach in terms of moving quality upstream?

Then come join us as Senior Quality Risk Manager in LKR Innovation House in Østbirk!

At the VELUX Group, quality is key to what we do, our mindset, our products and how we develop and produce them, and we strive to continually improve ourselves to do even better. To help ensuring that we continue to deliver high quality products, we are looking for an experienced, structured and collaborative Senior Quality Risk Manager to join our global QHSE&E organization.

About the job

As Senior Quality Risk Manager you will ensure a holistic and clear end-to-end risk picture in our New Product Launch (NPL) projects and steer us towards a more proactive approach in terms of moving quality upstream, thereby to ensure higher predictability and stability of New Product Introduction by decreasing and managing risks early stage.

You will take on a project managing role for driving quality in our NPL projects, and you will collaborate with a wide variety of stakeholders in e.g. product development, supply and operations, global product management and quality. You will closely interact with our Product Quality Specialists who will provide you with updates and information on FMEA risks and other quality assurance issues to help you building an overall, full and unbiased risk picture across our design and supply organizations. You will consolidate information and facilitate informed decisions at gates and ensure that gatekeepers have a full understanding of the impact and trade-offs of decisions across the entire value chain by consolidating deliverables.

More specifically, you will:

• Establish the quality risk planning (scope, time and resources, deadlines and dependencies) and agree on Quality NPL KPI targets with core team and gatekeepers
• Engage, inspire and challenge the project to ensure a quality mindset and support on assessing throughout the project lifetime when it is sufficient
• Represent Quality in various decision forums and update and prepare VP Global QHSE&E for Stage Gate meetings
• Lead Quality team meetings to consolidate the Quality plan to ensure a holistic risk picture
• Follow up proactively after product launch to act before failures occur or mitigate number of parts affected
• Analyze lessons learned and key findings from each stage at the gates to share and implement these insights in next stage

You will become part of our Global Quality, Health, Safety, Environment & Energy Organization in VELUX. We are a global, dedicated, and experienced team of employees who are driving a holistic, agile and proactive QHSE&E agenda with our partners to achieve an effective development of the VELUX business. You will be based in Østbirk in our new LKR Innovation House, and you will report directly to the VP of Global QHSE&E.

About you

As a person, you are structured and systematic and take pride in delivering on your responsibilities on time and at required quality. You are proficient in planning and know how to visualize a project plan and break it into suitable work packages. You are collaborative and a skilled communicator with the ability to get people onboard and work towards one common goal. This requires solid stakeholder management skills, and you are characterised by your ability to efficiently work and communicate across all levels of an organization and with a diverse group of stakeholders, making your opinions known and standing up for yourself and your quality agenda. You are a team player, and you know how to motivate your project team continuously to deliver high quality on time. You comfortably lead the way and are able to lead transformations and inspire people to change their behaviour.

Moreover, we expect that you:

• Have acquired a technical acumen through your educational background in a technically relevant area, e.g. engineering or equivalent
• Hold some years of experience in product risk management and project/program management, and have a well-developed project management toolbox
• Have experience in risk assessment, risk management and working with stage gate
• APQP experience will be an advantage but not a prerequisite
• Communicate in English at a professional level – verbally and in writing. Danish skills will be an advantage but not a prerequisite.

Your opportunities

This is your unique chance to utilize your technical insight in a role where you can really set your imprint on our level of success when it comes to delivering Quality objectives during the Stage Gate model. You will collaborate with colleagues across our product development organisation and operations & supply and have the opportunity to make a difference for how we develop and manufacture our high-quality products.

You will be part of an international company where commitment and mutual respect are among our core values. We believe in empowering people, and we support this by providing a high degree of freedom and investing in people who have the will and the ability to make a difference.

Application and contact

Read more about the VELUX Group at www.velux.com, where you can also learn more about working at our company and what to expect in our recruitment process

We are looking forward to receiving your application and CV. We will review applications and conduct interviews on an ongoing basis.

About VELUX

In the VELUX Group, we offer you a world of opportunities and the chance to create a bright future. From the forefront of the sustainable indoor living industry, we enable those who live, work and play under the roof transform their spaces and live a healthier everyday life with more daylight and fresh air.

The VELUX Group is an international, family-owned business with strong financial roots and each year we are able to create real impact by reinvesting in society, our employees and planet through our foundations.
Alongside the rest of our values, “courage” and “mutual respect” define our actions every day and how we wish to contribute to the world.

Equal Opportunity Employer

VELUX Residential is fully committed to the concept and practice of equal opportunity in all aspects of employment. To further our goal of equal employment opportunity for all employees and prospective employees, it is the policy of VELUX Residential to recruit, hire, train, and promote persons in all job titles without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, disability, protected veteran status, national origin, sexual orientation, or any other basis prohibited by applicable law. All employment decisions shall be consistent with the principle of equal employment opportunity and only job-related qualifications will be required.

Location: Industrivej 12 Østbirk

Additional location:

• Ryvej 37 Østbirk