The Quality Assurance Manager of the organization typically Owns the Quality Management System. In smaller organizations, he reports to the top management directly.In a larger organization this position reports to the overall head of Quality (Such as Director, Vice President …). In all cases there is a clear distinction and separated from the Operations Management. This is maintained to protect the independence of the position. This position calls for a clarity of purpose and a clear vision of the senior management. He represents the organization in the absence of a separate Management Representative during the external audits and other third party audits.
He is supported by the Quality Auditors and in some cases Quality Executives.Typical roles and responsibilities of a Quality Assurance Manager will be either full or some of the below list.

1. He is responsible to promote the quality culture throughout the organization.
2. Responsible to Develop, Implement, Maintain and update a high quality plan to ensure that the organizations quality management system is in compliance with the corporate policies and quality system needs.
3. To interact effectively with operations teams and operational process owners, to ensure that the quality system meets the requirements.
4. Ensure that the Quality System is in compliance with national and international regulations.
5. Formulate and manage the development and implementation of goals, objectives, policies, procedures and systems pertaining to Quality Assurance team
6. responsible for internal audits, plan, monitor and implement.
7. Support the organizational business objectives, through establishing and monitoring of the quality objectives
8. Setting up and monitoring or document and record control within the organization.
9. Laisoning with external auditors such as regulators, certification bodies and customer auditors and agree and implement the program
10. Identify, plan and implement the quality related training across the organization
11. Organize and manage the Quality Assurance function in line with the organizational policies
12. Ensure identified non conformance are resolved in a timley manner for both internal and external audits
13. Resolve customer complaints and  ensure necessary changes are made to quality system to prevent recurrence
14. Collating and analyzing performance data and charts against defined parameters and reporting to relevant stakeholders.
15. Plan, monitor and implement the supplier audit program and supplier approvals.
16. Usage of statistical tools to ensure right decisions are made

Typical qualifications needed for a Quality Assurance Manager