Vice President, Quality

Vice President, Quality

Reporting to the Vice President, Global Supply Chain and Operations Support, the Vice President, Quality will provide leadership and strategy for enterprise-wide quality assurance, standards, and best practices. This role will architect and drive a unified quality vision for Allegion, ensuring global alignment and continuous improvement across all business units and manufacturing sites. The Vice President, Quality will collaborate closely with business and plant leadership to influence quality culture, capability, and results.

What You Will Do:

• Lead the design and deployment of Allegion's global quality strategy, standards, and policies—serving as the "voice of quality" throughout the organization.
• Provide quality support for New Product Development projects by deploying Advanced Product Quality Planning (APQP) methods.
• Formalize and drive rigor in advanced quality engineering support for key business areas ensuring robust quality practices and successful product launches.
• Provide the organization with accessible quality systems processes, best practices, and methodologies to support plant and supplier quality systems.
• Drive the adoption of best-in-class quality systems, methodologies, and tools (e.g., Lean, Six Sigma, APQP, FMEA), instilling a prevention-focused, innovative quality culture.
• Establish, communicate, and monitor enterprise-wide quality KPIs; report progress and insights to senior leadership.
• Provide expert guidance and governance to plants and functional partners on quality assurance and risk mitigation.
• Organize and drive cross-site communication and collaboration. Lead the identification, sharing, and adoption of best practices and lessons learned across Allegion's global operations.
• Support compliance with external standards (e.g., ISO 9001) and regulatory requirements; oversee internal and external audit strategies and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Partner closely with plant quality managers, operations, engineering, supplier quality, supply chain, and product management to align and execute quality initiatives.
• Collaborate with operations, engineering, and product management to facilitate cross-functional problem-solving and root cause analysis for complex quality challenges, including manufacturing, product, and customer-related concerns and escalations.
• Lead a high-performing team of corporate quality professionals. Mentor and develop site quality managers.
• Champion digital transformation and adoption of new technologies to advance quality performance and operational excellence.

What You Need to Succeed:

• Bachelor's degree in engineering.
• 15+ years of progressive experience in leadership roles within manufacturing, covering different industries, with demonstrated success building and leading Centers of Excellence or similar enterprise-wide functions.
• Advanced knowledge of Lean, Six Sigma, APQP, FMEA, ISO standards, and statistical problem-solving tools.
• Experience influencing and collaborating across a matrixed, multinational organization.
• Proven ability to drive change, build consensus, and develop high-performing teams.
• Strong business acumen, excellent communication, and stakeholder management skills.
• Experience working with all organizational levels and multinational teams.
• Blend of Quality, Program Management, and Engineering experience.
• Willingness to travel up to 50% is required.

Why Work for Us? Allegion is a Great Place to Grow your Career if:

• You're seeking a rewarding opportunity that allows you to truly help others. With thousands of employees and customers around the world, there's plenty of room to make an impact. As our values state, "this is your business, run with it."
• You're looking for a company that will invest in your professional development. As we grow, we want you to grow with us.
• You want a culture that promotes work-life balance. Our employees enjoy generous paid time off, because at Allegion we recognize that you have a full life outside of work!

What You'll Get from Us:

• Health, dental and vision insurance coverage, helping you "be safe, be healthy."
• A commitment to your future with a 401K plan, offering a 6% company match and no vesting period.
• Tuition Reimbursement.
• Unlimited PTO.
• Employee Discounts through Perks at Work.
• Community involvement and opportunities to give back so you can "serve others, not yourself."
• Opportunities to leverage your unique strengths through CliftonStrengths testing and coaching.

We Celebrate Who We Are!

Allegion is committed to building and maintaining a diverse and inclusive workplace. Together, we embrace all differences and similarities among colleagues, as well as the differences and similarities within the relationships that we foster with customers, suppliers and the communities where we live and work. Whatever your background, experience, race, color, national origin, religion, age, gender, gender identity, disability status, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law, we will make sure that you have every opportunity to impress us in your application and the opportunity to give your best at work, not because we're required to, but because it's the right thing to do. We are also committed to providing accommodations for persons with disabilities. If for any reason you cannot apply through our career site and require an accommodation or assistance, please contact our Talent Acquisition Team.