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A role in Quality, Health, Safety and Environment (QHSE) at Kuehne+Nagel is focused on ensuring the well-being of our employees. But your impact goes far beyond that. Your expertise in cultivating a culture of safety enables our teams to do their jobs with confidence, whether it's making sure sensitive medical equipment reaches hospitals on time to save lives or delivering toys to local stores in perfect condition. At Kuehne+Nagel, your work contributes to more than we imagine.
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As the Global Quality Manager, Cloud+Semicon Road, you will lead the practical deployment and execution of Cloud+Semicon quality requirements across global Road Logistics, with a particular focus on last-mile delivery. You will translate our global quality framework into practical, field-ready controls, verify operational and supplier performance, and drive timely corrective action across Kuehne+Nagel operations, control towers, delivery crews, and approved Road service partners.
This is a highly hands-on role that connects quality with what is happening on the operational ground. You will work closely with operations, suppliers, and customers to help ensure complex, high-value deliveries are executed according to the required quality, safety, security, and service standards.
How you create impact
- Implement the global Cloud+Semicon quality framework within Road Logistics, maintaining Road-specific procedures, work instructions, checklists, acceptance criteria, and other field-ready controls.
- Establish and verify last-mile delivery controls covering vehicle and equipment readiness, authorized crews, PPE, route and site requirements, handling, positioning, deployment, and proof of delivery.
- Develop and execute a risk-based Road audit program across Kuehne+Nagel locations, control towers, dedicated crews, and subcontracted service partners, including announced and unannounced assessments and live delivery observations.
- Lead quality participation in supplier due diligence, onboarding, approval, and periodic requalification, assessing areas such as vehicles, equipment, staffing, competence, security controls, continuity arrangements, and delivery performance.
- Maintain supplier scorecards and improvement plans, verify corrective actions, and escalate critical or recurring issues, including recommending restriction or suspension of providers when critical controls are ineffective or risk is unacceptable.
- Lead or support the containment and investigation of Road service failures, damage, handling deviations, near misses, data failures, and customer complaints, applying RCCA/CAPA methodology and ensuring effective corrective and preventive actions.
- Verify the operational readiness of new or changed Road operations prior to go-live, providing documented quality recommendations and escalating material or systemic risks when appropriate.
- Define and verify role-based competence, authorization, and refresher requirements for operations, drivers, delivery crews, control towers, and relevant supplier personnel, while supporting delivery-app controls and data quality.
- Partner across Road Operations, Procurement, Security, QSHE, IT, visibility teams, account teams, customers, and service partners to resolve execution risks and support compliant delivery across countries and regions.
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent professional qualification in quality, logistics, supply chain, engineering, operations, or a related discipline.
- 7+ years quality-management experience within Road Logistics, last-mile delivery, high-value logistics, field services, or another controlled operational environment.
- Demonstrated experience auditing multi-site operations and suppliers and implementing SOPs, work instructions, training, and digital controls.
- Strong practical knowledge of RCCA/CAPA, risk assessment, supplier quality, operational readiness, and continuous improvement.
- Strong operational understanding, ideally involving complex or above-average transport requirements, with knowledge of loading, unloading, equipment, safety, security, and/or high-value deliveries.
- Ability to work effectively across countries and functions, constructively challenge non-conforming practices, and communicate credibly with operations teams, customers, suppliers, and other partners.
- Ability to operate independently in a global, matrixed environment, managing responsibilities with limited day-to-day supervision while working effectively with multiple stakeholders.
- Formal auditor or quality certifications are advantageous.
- Approximately 50% U.S. national and international travel is required.
At Kuehne+Nagel we strive daily to inspire, empower, and deliver not only to our customers, but also to our colleagues. We offer a dynamic global work environment with opportunities for excellent training programs and career mobility. The target base salary range for this position is between $100,000 and $125,000. Base salary is part of a competitive total rewards package that includes health and welfare benefits, a 401k retirement savings plan, tuition reimbursement, and incentive compensation for eligible roles. Individual pay may vary from the target range and is determined by a number of factors including experience, skills, job location, internal pay equity, and other relevant business considerations. Kuehne+Nagel reviews pay ranges regularly to ensure competitive and fair pay based on industry market data. #LI-KE1
Kuehne+Nagel participates in E-Verify and will provide the federal government with your Form I-9 information to confirm that you are authorized to work in the U.S. Employers can only use E-Verify once you have accepted a job offer and completed the Form I-9.
Who we are
Logistics shapes everyday life - from the goods we consume to the healthcare we rely on. At Kuehne+Nagel, your work goes beyond logistics; it enables both ordinary and special moments in the lives of people around the world.
As a global leader with a strong heritage and a vision to move the world forward, we offer a safe, stable environment where your career can make a real difference. Whether we help deliver life-saving medicines, develop sustainable transportation solutions or support our local communities, your career will contribute to more than you can imagine.
We kindly advise that placement agencies refrain from submitting unsolicited profiles. Any submissions of candidates without prior signed agreement will be considered our property and no fees will be paid.
A role in Quality, Health, Safety and Environment (QHSE) at Kuehne+Nagel is focused on ensuring the well-being of our employees. But your impact goes far beyond that. Your expertise in cultivating a culture of safety enables our teams to do their jobs with confidence, whether it's making sure sensitive medical equipment reaches hospitals on time to save lives or delivering toys to local stores in perfect condition. At Kuehne+Nagel, your work contributes to more than we imagine.
‎
As the Global Quality Manager, Cloud+Semicon Road, you will lead the practical deployment and execution of Cloud+Semicon quality requirements across global Road Logistics, with a particular focus on last-mile delivery. You will translate our global quality framework into practical, field-ready controls, verify operational and supplier performance, and drive timely corrective action across Kuehne+Nagel operations, control towers, delivery crews, and approved Road service partners.
This is a highly hands-on role that connects quality with what is happening on the operational ground. You will work closely with operations, suppliers, and customers to help ensure complex, high-value deliveries are executed according to the required quality, safety, security, and service standards.
How you create impact
- Implement the global Cloud+Semicon quality framework within Road Logistics, maintaining Road-specific procedures, work instructions, checklists, acceptance criteria, and other field-ready controls.
- Establish and verify last-mile delivery controls covering vehicle and equipment readiness, authorized crews, PPE, route and site requirements, handling, positioning, deployment, and proof of delivery.
- Develop and execute a risk-based Road audit program across Kuehne+Nagel locations, control towers, dedicated crews, and subcontracted service partners, including announced and unannounced assessments and live delivery observations.
- Lead quality participation in supplier due diligence, onboarding, approval, and periodic requalification, assessing areas such as vehicles, equipment, staffing, competence, security controls, continuity arrangements, and delivery performance.
- Maintain supplier scorecards and improvement plans, verify corrective actions, and escalate critical or recurring issues, including recommending restriction or suspension of providers when critical controls are ineffective or risk is unacceptable.
- Lead or support the containment and investigation of Road service failures, damage, handling deviations, near misses, data failures, and customer complaints, applying RCCA/CAPA methodology and ensuring effective corrective and preventive actions.
- Verify the operational readiness of new or changed Road operations prior to go-live, providing documented quality recommendations and escalating material or systemic risks when appropriate.
- Define and verify role-based competence, authorization, and refresher requirements for operations, drivers, delivery crews, control towers, and relevant supplier personnel, while supporting delivery-app controls and data quality.
- Partner across Road Operations, Procurement, Security, QSHE, IT, visibility teams, account teams, customers, and service partners to resolve execution risks and support compliant delivery across countries and regions.
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent professional qualification in quality, logistics, supply chain, engineering, operations, or a related discipline.
- 7+ years quality-management experience within Road Logistics, last-mile delivery, high-value logistics, field services, or another controlled operational environment.
- Demonstrated experience auditing multi-site operations and suppliers and implementing SOPs, work instructions, training, and digital controls.
- Strong practical knowledge of RCCA/CAPA, risk assessment, supplier quality, operational readiness, and continuous improvement.
- Strong operational understanding, ideally involving complex or above-average transport requirements, with knowledge of loading, unloading, equipment, safety, security, and/or high-value deliveries.
- Ability to work effectively across countries and functions, constructively challenge non-conforming practices, and communicate credibly with operations teams, customers, suppliers, and other partners.
- Ability to operate independently in a global, matrixed environment, managing responsibilities with limited day-to-day supervision while working effectively with multiple stakeholders.
- Formal auditor or quality certifications are advantageous.
- Approximately 50% U.S. national and international travel is required.
At Kuehne+Nagel we strive daily to inspire, empower, and deliver not only to our customers, but also to our colleagues. We offer a dynamic global work environment with opportunities for excellent training programs and career mobility. The target base salary range for this position is between $100,000 and $125,000. Base salary is part of a competitive total rewards package that includes health and welfare benefits, a 401k retirement savings plan, tuition reimbursement, and incentive compensation for eligible roles. Individual pay may vary from the target range and is determined by a number of factors including experience, skills, job location, internal pay equity, and other relevant business considerations. Kuehne+Nagel reviews pay ranges regularly to ensure competitive and fair pay based on industry market data. #LI-KE1
Kuehne+Nagel participates in E-Verify and will provide the federal government with your Form I-9 information to confirm that you are authorized to work in the U.S. Employers can only use E-Verify once you have accepted a job offer and completed the Form I-9.
Who we are
Logistics shapes everyday life - from the goods we consume to the healthcare we rely on. At Kuehne+Nagel, your work goes beyond logistics; it enables both ordinary and special moments in the lives of people around the world.
As a global leader with a strong heritage and a vision to move the world forward, we offer a safe, stable environment where your career can make a real difference. Whether we help deliver life-saving medicines, develop sustainable transportation solutions or support our local communities, your career will contribute to more than you can imagine.
We kindly advise that placement agencies refrain from submitting unsolicited profiles. Any submissions of candidates without prior signed agreement will be considered our property and no fees will be paid.
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Who's Hiring
Top Industries Hiring
- Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals
- Sports & Recreation
- Transportation & Logistics
- Medical Devices
- Healthcare & Medical Services
What Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in global quality manager jobs.
- Bachelor's degree in engineering, quality management, or a related technical field
- Experience managing quality systems across multiple international sites or suppliers
- ISO 9001 or industry-specific certification such as IATF 16949 or AS9100
- Proven experience leading supplier audits and corrective action processes
- Proficiency with quality tools including FMEA, SPC, control plans, and 8D methodology
- Strong cross-functional communication skills for working with operations, R&D, and regulatory teams
Tips for Your Global Quality Manager Job Search
Tailor your resume to quality systems
Lead with the specific quality management systems you've owned, such as ISO 9001, IATF 16949, or AS9100, and name the certification bodies you've worked with. Hiring managers scan for these before reading anything else on your resume.
Quantify audit and defect reduction outcomes
Generic claims about 'improving quality' won't stand out. Replace them with concrete outcomes: reduction in customer complaints, audit findings closed, or supplier corrective actions resolved. Numbers anchored to a timeframe carry far more weight.
Apply early to roles that fit
Migrate Mate lists global quality manager openings from across the United States in one place, so you can find roles that match and apply directly to each listing.
Target postings by regulatory scope
Filter openings by the regulatory environment you know best, whether FDA-regulated, automotive Tier 1, or aerospace prime contractor. Applying where your compliance background matches the posting's specific regulatory requirements puts you ahead of generalist candidates.
Prepare case studies for the final interview
Late-stage interviews for global quality manager roles almost always include a scenario question about managing a supplier crisis or leading a cross-regional corrective action. Prepare two or three structured examples using the situation, action, and result format before your first screening call.
Negotiate scope alongside compensation
When you receive an offer, clarify which regions, suppliers, or product lines fall under your authority before accepting. Scope ambiguity at the global level creates friction after you start, and it's far easier to negotiate clarity upfront.
Global Quality Manager Jobs: Frequently Asked Questions
Which companies are hiring the most global quality managers?
The companies hiring the most global quality managers right now include Amazon, Tesla, and MSA Safety, with the largest share of openings in California, Texas, and Illinois, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. Manufacturing, medical device, and aerospace companies consistently account for the highest volume of postings.
How many global quality manager jobs are remote?
About 65% of global quality manager openings are fully remote or hybrid as of November 2026, though fully on-site roles remain common given the hands-on nature of manufacturing and supplier oversight. Quality systems roles with a heavier documentation, audit planning, or compliance focus tend to offer the most flexibility for remote or hybrid arrangements.
How do you become a global quality manager?
Start with a technical degree in engineering or quality and several years in quality engineering or quality assurance roles. Earn a recognized certification, such as ISO lead auditor or Certified Quality Engineer. Build experience managing supplier relationships and cross-regional teams, then pursue roles with international scope. Demonstrating that you've led a corrective action across multiple sites is often what moves candidates into global-level positions.
Can you get a global quality manager job without direct global experience?
Yes, candidates move into global quality manager roles by first demonstrating depth in multi-site or multi-supplier quality oversight at a regional level. Focus on roles where you can lead audits, manage supplier corrective actions, and collaborate with international operations teams. Certifications like ISO lead auditor and experience with global quality standards close much of the gap when direct global exposure is limited.
What does the global quality manager interview process look like?
Most processes start with a recruiter screening focused on your quality systems background and industry experience, followed by a technical interview with the quality director or VP covering your audit methodology, corrective action experience, and familiarity with relevant standards. A final round typically includes a cross-functional panel or a scenario exercise where you walk through how you'd manage a supplier quality crisis or a site-level nonconformance across regions.
Where can I find and apply to global quality manager jobs?
You can find and apply to global quality manager jobs on Migrate Mate, which lists current openings from across the United States. Find roles that match your industry background and quality systems experience, then apply directly to each listing.
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