Vice President, Quality Assurance & Regulatory Affairs

Work Model: This role can be performed remotely from an approved location, with flexibility based on business needs and applicable requirements.

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Position Overview

Regal Rexnord is seeking a senior, business-minded quality, product compliance, and operational excellence leader to serve as Vice President, Quality Assurance & Regulatory Affairs. Reporting to the Executive Vice President and President of the Automation and Motion Control (AMC) Segment, this role will support AMC by building and strengthening segment-level standards, governance, operating rhythms, and cross-divisional processes for quality, product compliance, operational execution, and regulated customer expectations.

This is a segment-level operations leadership role, not a traditional plant quality position, legal role, or government/regulatory affairs role. The role will enable AMC to move from division-by-division problem solving to a more consistent and repeatable segment model by translating quality, customer, regulatory, and compliance requirements into executable operating controls.

Key Responsibilities

Segment Quality, Product Compliance & Governance

• Establish AMC segment governance for quality, product compliance, product safety, regulated-customer readiness, and operating standards.

• Identify recurring quality, compliance, and regulatory risks and drive cross-divisional corrective and preventive actions.

Aerospace, Defense & Regulated Customer Readiness

• Lead segment actions from AMC Aerospace and Defense maturity assessments.

• Translate maturity recommendations into executable workstreams with Legal, Trade Compliance, IT, Quality, Operations, Engineering, and Supply Chain.

• Support practical approaches for regulated customer expectations, including FAA concepts, FAR/DFARS flow-downs, evidence, supplier readiness, recordkeeping, corrective action, traceability, change control, quality escapes, audits, and customer-specific obligations.

Quality Systems

• Assess quality system maturity and strengthen common processes, metrics, management reviews, and visibility to significant quality events.

• Set practical standards for root cause, corrective and preventive action, containment, effectiveness checks, and lessons learned.

Product Compliance

• Strengthen AMC product compliance governance with product compliance, engineering, quality, supply chain, and legal teams.

• Create a segment approach to translate requirements into processes for product safety, labeling, materials restrictions, certifications, agency requirements, customer obligations, and compliance evidence.

Supplier Quality

• Set baseline supplier quality expectations and monitoring for high-risk suppliers, regulated programs, critical products, government programs, and compliance risks.

• Align supplier obligations with customer commitments, including flow-downs, traceability, documentation, change management, source control, counterfeit-part risk, inspection, testing, and corrective actions.

Legal, Compliance & Risk Partnership

• Partner with Legal and Compliance on quality, product compliance, regulated customer, supplier, and operational governance matters.

• Support fact development, root cause investigation, corrective action planning, and implementation for significant quality, compliance, customer, supplier, or regulatory matters.

Leadership

• Coach, develop, and elevate Division & Site leaders to build a high-performance culture grounded in accountability, collaboration, capability building, and sustained execution.

• Identify capability gaps and recommend practical resources, training, process, or governance solutions.

Required Skills & Qualifications

The successful candidate will have the following:

• A minimum of 15 years of experience across the following fields: Quality Assurance, Regulatory Affairs, Product Compliance, Engineering, and/or Operations

• Bachelor’s degree in related field

• Demonstrated experience building enterprise or segment-level standards, governance models, operating rhythms, and cross-functional accountability mechanisms

• Strong business acumen and ability to translate legal, regulatory, customer, and compliance requirements into practical operating controls

• Experience leading cross-functional workstreams across Operations, Quality Engineering, Supply Chain, Legal, Compliance, IT/Cybersecurity, and business leadership

• Proven ability to influence senior leaders and divisional teams in a matrixed environment

• Working knowledge of quality systems, corrective action, supplier quality, product compliance, regulated customer expectations, and continuous improvement methods

Preferred Skills & Qualifications

• Master’s degree in related field

• Experience supporting aerospace, defense, FAA-regulated, FAR/DFARS, FDA medical device, medical, data center, or similarly regulated customer environments

• Experience in implementing quality governance, supplier quality improvements,…