P6P6 — Principal Professional
Distinguished
Provide visionary leadership for quality control’s scientific agenda. Identify emerging trends and steer R&D to adopt them.
What this level means
Top individual contributor; recognized authority with strategic impact, equivalent to a low executive level
- Scope
- Organization-wide architecture and the hardest problems
- Autonomy
- Defines direction; minimal oversight
- Complexity
- Strategic, open-ended problems shaping the technical future
- Impact
- Organization-wide
- Decision rights
- Sets technical strategy for a major area
- Leadership
- Recognized authority; multiplies many teams
- Typical experience
- 12–18 yrs
What you'd do
- Resolve the most challenging scientific or regulatory problems
- Define best practices and technology roadmaps
- Represent company’s quality science at industry consortiums
- Identify and adopt emerging trends
- Steer R&D towards innovation
- Ensure global compliance and alignment
- Lead the scientific agenda for QC
- Foster industry partnerships
- Drive the company’s reputation in quality science
- Provide visionary leadership for QC
- Identify and adopt emerging trends
- Steer R&D towards innovation
- Ensure global compliance
- Represent QC at industry consortiums
Skills, knowledge & tools
- Visionary leadership
- Trend identification
- R&D steering
- Global compliance
- Industry partnership
- Leadership
- Innovation in QC
- Effective communication
- Visionary leadership in QC
- Emerging trends in quality science
- R&D steering strategies
- Global compliance standards
- Industry partnership development
- Innovation in QC
- Scientific agenda setting
- Reputation management in quality science
- Leadership & Influence
- Problem-solving
- Communication & Teamwork
- Visionary leadership
- Trend Identification
- R&D Steering
- Global Compliance
- Industry Partnership
What good looks like
- 15+ years of experience
- Broad exposure to the full product lifecycle, global compliance issues, and innovation initiatives
- Experience in visionary leadership
Common titles
Analytical Chemistry VIAnalytical Chemistry 6Principal Analytical ChemistryMicrobiology VIMicrobiology 6Principal Microbiology
What it pays
Market-pay benchmarks for this family × level are being recalibrated across all survey sources and will return shortly.
O*NET / SOC: 19-4099.01 — Quality Control Analysts