VP, Laboratory Testing and Biotherapies Quality Services

At Vitalant, the impact you make doing work that is purposeful, meaningful, and worthwhile is vital. As a member of our non-profit organization, you can be impact-inspired to provide vital clinical services to communities nationwide, vital products to those in need of a donor's generosity, or vital scientific research that advances blood safety worldwide. **Work Shift (if applicable):** Shift 1 (United States of America) **Job Description:** At Vitalant, our mission is to save and improve lives through blood donation, transplantation, cellular therapies, research, and innovation. As the VP, Laboratory Testing and Biotherapies Quality Services, you will play a critical leadership role in advancing that mission by providing enterprise-wide strategic oversight for quality and operational excellence across laboratory testing, clinical apheresis, cell processing, and biomanufacturing operations. This executive leader is responsible for strengthening Vitalant’s enterprise quality system, ensuring compliance with regulatory and accreditation requirements, and partnering with organizational leaders to drive performance, mitigate risk, support growth, and enhance patient and customer outcomes. The role also leads and develops high-performing quality teams while fostering a culture of accountability, continuous improvement, and service excellence aligned with Vitalant’s RITE values of Respect, Integrity, Teamwork, and Excellence. **Compensation: $208,270.40 - $260,000.00** **This hybrid position is based in Scottsdale, AZ and requires working onsite three days per week and from a home office two days per week.** Applications accepted through July 24, 2026 **Our comprehensive total rewards support you, your family, and your future with:** - Medical, dental, and vision insurance - 401K + 5% company match - Tuition assistance up to $5k per year - Free basic life and AD&D insurance - Free short-and-long-term disability insurance - Paid time off - Employee Resource Groups - Recognition and perks As the **VP, Laboratory Testing and Biotherapies Quality Services**, you'll get to: - Provide executive leadership for enterprise quality strategy, governance, and operational excellence across laboratory testing, clinical apheresis, cell processing, and biomanufacturing operations. - Lead and continuously enhance the enterprise quality system to ensure regulatory compliance, risk mitigation, inspection readiness, and sustained performance improvement. - Serve as a strategic advisor to executive leadership on quality, regulatory, and compliance matters, including emerging risks, quality system effectiveness, and business impact. - Ensure compliance with applicable regulatory, accreditation, and industry standards, including FDA, CLIA, FACT, ASHI, CAP, The Joint Commission, and AABB requirements. - Partner with senior leaders to align quality initiatives with organizational goals, operational performance, customer expectations, and growth strategies. - Oversee enterprise quality metrics, audits, data analytics, and trend monitoring to identify risks, drive informed decision-making, and improve outcomes. - Sponsor corrective and preventive action programs and continuous improvement initiatives to strengthen quality performance and operational effectiveness. - Provide executive oversight for the evaluation and disposition of nonconforming products, processes, and test results, including regulatory reporting and customer communications when required. - Represent Vitalant with regulatory agencies, accrediting organizations, customers, and external partners, ensuring successful inspections, audits, and reviews. - Influence enterprise decisions related to processes, technologies, systems, equipment, and quality monitoring practices to support compliant, scalable, and efficient operations. - Lead, mentor, and develop a high-performing team of quality professionals while fostering a culture of accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement. - Mana…