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About the Role

The Global Quality Customer Lead (GQCL) is the primary customer-facing Quality leader for assigned strategic accounts within the Drug Product Division. This role collaborates with various internal teams and customer stakeholders to align account governance, enhance executive relationships, and proactively manage quality risks and opportunities, ultimately positioning Thermo Fisher Quality as a trusted strategic partner.

Responsibilities

Create a competitive advantage for key strategic accounts by strengthening customer confidence, transparency, and trust in Thermo Fisher Quality.
Serve as the primary customer-facing Quality leader for assigned strategic accounts, ensuring a consistent and aligned Quality voice across sites, products, and governance forums.
Build and maintain effective relationships with customer Quality stakeholders, including executive-level contacts where appropriate, to support long-term partnership and strategic alignment.
Partner with Site Quality Heads, Site Quality Project Leads, Commercial partners, Strategic Account leadership, and Quality leadership to align on customer priorities, governance needs, and risk sensitivities.
Lead Quality participation in account governance forums, including Joint Steering Committees, Business Review Meetings, and other strategic customer meetings.
Coordinate and communicate quality performance across products, sites, and functions to provide customers with clear, accurate, and timely updates.
Develop and maintain account-level Quality health visibility through standard metrics, trends, and early-warning indicators to identify risks before escalation.
Monitor quality improvement plans, customer commitments, and corrective actions, ensuring plans are structured appropriately, communicated clearly, and delivered on time.
Provide structured escalation leadership for significant quality issues, coordinating site and functional teams to support timely resolution and customer communication.
Standardize and elevate customer-facing Quality communications through clear, concise, and insight-driven reporting, dashboards, and governance content.
Translate customer feedback, recurring themes, and account trends into actions that improve service, strengthen trust, and support continuous improvement.
Liaise with PSG Strategic Accounts QA Sponsor, Business Unit Leads, and other senior leaders to support executive alignment, customer opportunities, and high-impact escalations.
Partner with Customer Experience and other cross-functional teams to ensure quality-related customer insights are reflected in account planning, governance, and closed-loop action.
Support the evolution of the Quality organization from a reactive issue-response model to a more proactive and data-enabled customer engagement capability.

Requirements

Advanced Degree plus 6 years of experience, or Bachelor's Degree plus 8 years of industry experience in pharmaceutical, medical device, or regulated life sciences industry required.
10+ years of experience within pharmaceutical industries, including extensive experience in GMP-regulated manufacturing environments and quality operations.
In-depth understanding of GxP regulatory requirements and quality systems supporting clinical and commercial pharmaceutical operations.
Demonstrated experience leading quality improvement initiatives and driving change management.
Demonstrated ability to build credibility and trust with customer stakeholders, including senior and executive-level contacts.
Strong business acumen and understanding of strategic account management, customer governance, and relationship management in a complex global organization.
Ability to travel 20-25%.

Location

North Carolina

Work Type

Office
Standard (Mon-Fri)

Education Level

Advanced Degree
Bachelor's Degree

Salary/Compensations

$118,100.00–$177,200.00

About the Company

As the world leader in serving science, our colleagues develop critical solutions through innovation—and build rewarding careers.
Discover their extraordinary stories and connection to our Mission to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer.
Their work is a story of purpose.
What story will you tell?
Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. is the world leader in serving science, with annual revenue of more than $40 billion.
Our Mission is to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer.
Whether our customers are accelerating life sciences research, solving complex analytical challenges, increasing productivity in their laboratories, improving patient health through diagnostics or the development and manufacture of life-changing therapies, we are here to support them.
Our global team delivers an unrivaled combination of innovative technologies, purchasing convenience and pharmaceutical services through our industry-leading brands, including Thermo Scientific, Applied Biosystems, Invitrogen, Fisher Scientific, Unity Lab Services, Patheon and PPD.

Equal Opportunity

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment.
Please contact us to request accommodation.
Thermo Fisher Scientific is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, creed, religion, color, national or ethnic origin, citizenship, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, genetic information, veteran status, age or disability status.