Regional Quality Manager - LATAM

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Job/Position Description: The Regional Quality Manager provides functional leadership and governance for quality systems, compliance and performance across manufacturing locations in Latin America. This role ensures that products, processes and services consistently meet regulatory, customer, and corporate quality standards and plays a critical leadership role in developing the next generation of quality excellence. The Regional Quality Manager promotes a culture where quality is designed into processes, quality management systems operate with discipline and quality becomes a competitive advantage for Albemarle. This role partners with site, regional and global teams to execute the global quality strategy, improve system maturity and build capability across teams. Essential Duties & Responsibilities: Functional Management Responsibilities Provide functional oversight and governance for quality operations across multiple manufacturing plants within the region Ensure effective implementation, maintenance and continuous improvement of the Quality Management System (QMS) in accordance with customer, corporate and regulatory standards (e.g., ISO 9001, GMP, IATF 16949) Establish regional expectations for testing, batch record review, change controls, documentation, nonconformance management and other critical quality processes. Standardize site-level quality procedures across production, maintenance and packaging operations, and ensure alignment with global standards Support sites with significant technical investigations, product quality issues and escalated product-release or disposition decisions. Provide oversight of nonconformances, customer complaints, CAPAs, and deviations to ensure timely, effective and sustainable resolution Provide regional oversight for regulatory inspections, audits, and internal assessments; monitor routine audit activities and effective closure of findings Establish, monitor and report regional quality objectives and performance indicators aligned with business, operations and corporate strategies Define tools, criteria and systems to measure and improve QMS effectiveness across the region Analyze quality and operational data to identify trends, risks and improvement opportunities Develop and lead regional improvement roadmaps that reduce deviations, improve process capability, increase right first-time performance and reduce cost of poor quality Build structured problem-solving capability (5 Whys, Fishbone, DMAIC) through coaching and consistent application of appropriate investigation and RCA methods Facilitate sharing of lessons learned and best practices across manufacturing sites Develop and manage the regional quality budget and support prioritization of investments in systems, laboratory capability and quality improvement Customer and External Partner Management Provide governance and escalation support for significant, recurring customer complaints and ensure consistent investigation and effective corrective and preventive actions implementation Partner with Commercial and Site teams to ensure changes affecting product quality, specifications, manufacturing processes, analytical methods, raw materials, packaging, or supply arrangements are evaluated through the established change management process, including assessment of customer notification and approval requirements. Support customer audits, visits, quality performance reviews to build trust and credibility, and provide oversight of site qualification activities Represent quality in customer contract negotiations by assessing risk and ensuring