Director - Health, Safety, Quality & Compliance

Director, Health, Safety, Quality, and Compliance

HRforGrowth® is engaged as the exclusive talent acquisition partner to conduct this search on behalf of a client organization that is hiring for this role. HRforGrowth is not the employer for this position. HRforGrowth identifies, evaluates, and presents top-tier candidates through its global talent acquisition practice; all employment decisions — including final selection, offer terms, compensation, and conditions of employment — are made solely by the hiring organization.

PRIMARY OBJECTIVE OF POSITION:

The Director - Health, Safety, Quality, and Compliance is a senior enterprise leadership role responsible for establishing the strategy, governance, standards, methods, and tools that enable consistent execution across Archway. This role leads the enterprise approach to health, safety, quality, environmental stewardship, and compliance, ensuring operational discipline, risk mitigation, regulatory readiness, and sustainable performance improvement. The Director is accountable for maintaining applicable regulatory certifications and compliance with Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA), National Association Boards of Pharmacy (NABP), and other federal, state, and local requirements so Archway can deliver client services without interruption and maintain a strong reputation for operational excellence. The Director partners with senior leaders across Archway to proactively identify and resolve issues, strengthen systems and controls, and drive continuous improvement. This role also represents Archway with clients by clearly communicating performance expectations, compliance posture, and corrective action plans when needed.

MAJOR AREAS OF PERFORMANCE:

• Partner with Division and business unit leaders to define and implement enterprise standards, processes, and tools for health, safety, quality, environmental stewardship, and compliance across Archway.
• Establish enterprise metrics, reporting routines, and management review processes that provide clear visibility to performance, risk, compliance status, and improvement priorities.
• Lead root cause analysis, corrective and preventive action, and risk reduction processes that improve health, safety, quality, environmental, and compliance outcomes.
• Identify, evaluate, and implement leading practices, tools, and methodologies that strengthen Archway’s capability to deliver world-class health, safety, quality, environmental, and compliance performance.
• Oversee the systems, preparation, internal assessments, and external audits required to maintain ISO certification and other applicable regulatory or client-driven requirements across Archway facilities.
• Collaborate with Operations Leaders and Facility Directors to embed continuous improvement discipline, standard work, and practical problem-solving capabilities across business units.
• Develop enterprise strategies that advance corporate health, safety, quality, environmental, and compliance goals while aligning priorities with business needs, client expectations, and operational opportunities.
• Partner with business unit functions to prioritize, launch, monitor, and sustain key initiatives that improve performance, reduce risk, and strengthen compliance maturity.
• Lead and develop professionals responsible for health, safety, quality, environmental, and compliance activities across Archway locations, ensuring capability, accountability, and consistent execution.
• Support Client Service teams in addressing client-facing health, safety, quality, environmental, and compliance matters, including issue resolution, corrective action communication, and confidence-building engagement.
• Enable commercial growth by supporting sales and client retention efforts with credible operational, quality, safety, environmental, and compliance expertise.

QUALIFICATIONS, (EXPERIENCE, EDUCATION, KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS) REQUIRED:

• Bachelor’s degree required; advanced degree or relevant professional certification preferred.
• 10+ years of progressive leadership experience directly related to health, safety, quality, regulatory compliance, operations, or continuous improvement.
• Strong strategic, analytical, and critical-thinking skills with demonstrated ability to solve complex business problems, make sound decisions, and lead, coach, and develop professional teams.
• Demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional teams, manage enterprise initiatives, and provide disciplined project management support from planning through execution.
• Excellent executive communication skills, including verbal, written, listening, presentation, and financial acumen.
• Ability to build organizational capability through mentoring, training, prioritization, scheduling, employee development, and performance management.
  Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to influence, collaborate, and build credibility across a wide range of internal and external stakeholders.
• Results-oriented change leader with the ability to translate strategy into execution and measurable business outcomes.
• Ability to influence and lead teams, stakeholders, and initiatives across a matrixed environment, including groups that do not report directly to the role.
• Exceptional client-facing communication skills with the ability to represent Archway confidently in executive, regulatory, audit, and commercial discussions.

About HRforGrowth:
HRforGrowth is a full-service HR and talent partner built to support companies that are scaling, transforming, or navigating change. HRFG is globally recognized for delivering quality, speed, and cost-effective talent solutions across every level of the workforce. Through its global talent acquisition practice, HRforGrowth applies world class rigor and precision to identifying exceptional professional and executive talent on behalf of its clients — from temporary staffing to permanent hourly workers through to placing C-suite executives. HRforGrowth is presenting this opportunity in its capacity as the retained search partner and does not serve as the employer of record for this position.

Equal Employment Opportunity:
In its recruiting and search practices, HRforGrowth does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, age, marital status, physical or mental disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender, or gender identity, and welcomes applications from all qualified individuals. HRforGrowth evaluates and presents candidates to its clients without regard to any protected characteristic.

The hiring organization for this position is expected to comply with all applicable federal, state, and local equal employment opportunity laws — including those enforced by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) — in its hiring decisions, terms of employment, and workplace practices.