Project Business Quality Senior Manager (m/f/d)

Description: 

Shape the Future of Project Business Quality

Join Hager’s High Current Project Business – a strategic growth area focused on tailored large-scale power distribution solutions (800–4000A) across buildings, industry, and infrastructure. In this business area we deliver solutions tailored for our customer project-requirements.

 

What this role is about

As Project Business Quality Senior Manager you hold end-to-end responsibility for quality performance across the full project lifecycle – from product and system design to installation, commissioning, and after-sales.

As a strategic leadership role, you ensure that customer expectations, compliance requirements, and business objectives are consistently met through strong quality standards, process excellence, and continuous improvement.

 

At the same time, you:

  • act as a strategic partner across functions
  • lead effectively in a matrix organization without formal authority 
  • position quality as a business enabler, not just a control function

 

Where you make the difference

  • Setting the direction
    Based on your experience in a project focus environment, you define quality standards, governance, and processes for the entire project lifecycle.
  • Driving customer excellence
    You take ownership of complaints, escalations, and COPQ – and turn issues into sustainable improvements.
  • Connecting the ecosystem
    You work closely with engineering, operations, partners, and customers to ensure quality in real project environments.
  • Improving what matters
    You lead root cause analysis and continuous improvement across regions and projects.
  • Making quality visible
    You establish KPIs, dashboards, and transparency for stakeholders up to top management.

 

What you bring to the table

You combine strategic thinking with operational credibility.

  • Solid background in engineering or quality management in an international, large project-driven & industrial environments
  • Strong expertise in certification, risk management, and quality standards (e.g. ISO 9001, CE)
  • Experience with COPQ, customer complaints, and field quality
  • Confidence with methods like Six Sigma, FMEA, 8D

 

What really makes the difference:

  • You can navigate complexity and stakeholders with ease
  • You stay calm and structured in escalations 
  • You lead with influence, not hierarchy

 

Why this role is different

This is not about maintaining quality. It´s about building it where it doesn’t fully exist yet.

  • A strategic business area with strong growth ambitions
  • Direct Reporting to the Vice President Project Business of the Group
  • High visibility and exposure across group functions and regions
  • Real and direct impact on customers, projects, and business success