Ali Noori

• Led multiple plant's quality organization across Canada and U.S.A. Directing
and managing quality activities.
• Led and managed change initiatives inclusive of planning, execution and
tracking the milestones such as communications, training, stakeholder
engagement, risk assessment, change impact assessment, organizational
readiness analysis, post implementation support & reinforcement, lessons
learned and continuous improvement of current methodologies and
processes.
• Developed, generated, and facilitated a robust Reporting structure and
action plans, SWOT analysis and Roadmap for the global and divisional
quality objectives, goals, strategies, and metric to ensure their alignment
with the business and operational strategies.
• Identified and developed roles and responsibilities, RACI and team
configuration to deliver the agreed-upon goals and objectives across
operational functions.

• Actively drove the integration of newly acquired plants to transform their
legacy quality and regulatory systems to implement best practices and
global management system to complete integration process.
• Implemented industry best practices quality operational system through
development of robust processes and quality plans. Led QMS team for
Integration, Standardization, and harmonization of quality management
system across multiple newly acquired plants by developing, integrating,
and deploying strategic plans and practices across the division and
business unit.
• Led North American plants' quality organization for conformance to all
quality requirements including CAPAs, Quality Notifications (QN), Internal
NCMRs, Customer complaints, Customer requests, Management Review
(QMRBs), CCRBs, Customer audits, internal and external audits, eQMS, ISO
9001, ISO 14001, 8D process, FMEA, Control plans, IPO, Process control
systems (PCS), Statistical Process Control (SPC), NPD phase gate review,
and other quality tools.
• Provided ongoing coaching and mentoring to quality and operational team.
• Built an effective partnership with the plant operation’s team including
process engineering, R&D, QC laboratory and product management to
improve operational effectiveness.

• Managed Material, Process, Delivery and Quality function to ensure that product quality meets specifications and Ecolab quality management system is maintained. Represented the plant and ensures compliance with regulatory requirement, including Health Canada and FDA GMP standards.
• Implemented and maintained industry best practices quality management system. Led QMS team to ensure compliance to ISO 9001, ISO 14001 and ISO13485.
• Applied Continuous Improvement, TPM and Lean tools to consistently improve performance, reduce waste and drive productivity across Ecolab Canadian sites and functions to gain competitive advantage.
• Improved Safety, Quality, Delivery and Cost performance through Business Process Improvement, Kaizen, DMAIC, PDCA and Lean Six Sigma Projects
• Defined, optimized, and maintained end to end business processes through deployment of QMS, TPM and Identification of Meaningful Metrics and Key Performance Indicators
• Built organizational capability by providing training and coaching and restructuring the quality team.
• Led cross functional teams in understanding the current condition of assigned processes and systems to establish plans to close the gap and coach teams to successfully achieve organizational priorities.
• Represented the Toronto Plant in internal and external audits including GMP and GXP to ensures all Canadian locations comply with all other aspects of the Global Quality management system and actively participate in annual quality audits.
• Led and managed changes inclusive of planning, implementation, and control to promote a culture and mindset of operational excellence and continuous improvement across Canadian sites and embedding it into daily work.
• Built and maintained relationships across the matrix to identify opportunities for process improvement and facilitate the implementation of measurement and management systems.
• Acted as the plant champion and liaison for all product and process transfers from head office RD&E or any other manufacturing location to the plant.
• Managed Supply Chain projects, cost saving and improvement projects, liaised between supply chain and other divisions to support projects and ensure all projects are completed successfully.
• Coached the stakeholders and team members at all levels to support them through the adoption of project management principles.
• Led negotiations with internal or external clients; assisted in the development of business plans, strategies and approaches to take advantage of business opportunities.
• Managed vendor relationships with Procurement Manager. Provided subject matter expertise in areas such as risk identification, project scope, and resource allocation.
• Managed a portfolio of projects/programs as part of a larger portfolio of projects across different areas and participated in budget development.
• Defined and implemented project delivery strategy, methodologies, standards, and tools, to provide consistency of project implementation.
• Defined and implemented key performance indicators for the measurement of organization goals and objectives.
• Provided strategic advice to the Executive management regarding business solutions, and project management.

• Led loss control and loss analysis projects to reduce the cost and increase profitability in operation and business units.
• Managed projects for product localization and performance improvement with focus on increasing efficiency and reducing the cost of manufacturing.
• Optimized Labor, Facility, and Space Utilization
• Applied continuous Improvement projects in managing materials from suppliers through customers.
• Partnered with marketing, planning and logistics to ensure smooth relationship between divisions and supply chain.
• Improved the delivery service to the site manufacturing and managed overall material inventory within 95% accuracy.
• Managed raw material inventory, space requirements, raw material quality and safety.
• Managed the E2E supply chain synchronization between production, quality, and logistics.
• Managed daily activities pertaining receiving and processing of materials.
• Managed production activities and ensured production priorities are consistent with operation plan.
• Coordinated productions activities with scheduling, procurement, maintenance, and quality to obtain optimum production and utilization of personnel, machines, and equipment.
• Reviewed and analyze production reports (OEE, downtime, etc.) to determine causes of operational issues to improve operation efficiencies with focus on TPM methodologies.
• Assisted business and supply chain management in the development and implementation of standard operating procedures and work instructions designed to eliminate operating issues and improve product quality.
• Worked with planning function and S&OP team to revise production schedules and priorities as needed because of equipment failure, operating problems, quality, and customer requirement to remain agile and resilient.
• Participated in the Health and Safety Committee as an active member.
• Built an effective partnership with the plant operational supervisors, production employees, TPM leads, hourly staff to improve overall plant operational effectiveness.

• Led SAP implementation within quality management system through working with enterprise SAP project team. Conducted ITC and UAT testing as well as implementation and training the ERP system.
• Developed, implemented, and maintained Ecolab Quality Management system.
• Led, performed, and administered audits for internal and external providers of products to ensure meeting business.
• Managed Site material management and product set up including new product setup and modifications to Bill of Materials and Bill of Quality and all related Recipes in SAP environment.
• Managed the performance of the quality management system by setting QA compliance objectives, KPIs and KAIs and analyzing data.
• Managed packaging and chemical quality issues and significant quality incidents as well as nonconformities and recalls.
• Worked closely with plant management team and corporate quality, regulatory and RD&E to identify root causes of quality and regulatory issues and implement corrective and preventative action CAPA.
• Audited operation activities to evaluate adherence to process safety management requirements.

• Managed the level of adherence to food safety, GMP, HACCP and BRC and all other customer requirements.
• Directed the quality team to ensure compliance with all company and regulatory standards, sanitation standards, food safety standards, employee safety and environmental standards.
• Worked directly with government and agency auditors with regards to CFIA standard requirements and customer audits and their follow up activities.
• Managed quality team responsible for ensuring product quality and safety on hold and release program through monitoring, reporting and managing programs to improve quality & food safety performance in plant.

• Managed the site quality function and assisted the quality director, facilitated the continuous improvement programs in place to improve the product quality for gaining competitive advantage.
• Managed transition to GMP for the facility to meet requirement of cGMP standard requested by FDA.
• Conducted internal quality management system audit that helped in the preparation for external audit from customers.
• Coordinated the activities for the collection of quality data, Review data trending and assisted with timely resolutions related to non-conformance and presentation of this at weekly meetings.
• Directed the quality team to ensure compliance to all quality and regulatory standards and collection and analysis of all deviations and out of specs and coordination the investigation and corrective actions.

Master of Business Administration (MBA)

Diploma in Pharmaceutical Quality Control and Regulatory

B.Sc. in Chemistry (Eval.)