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Quality Lead - Fulfil

Tata Teleservices
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JOB DESCRIPTION
The Quality Lead - Fulfil will own quality assurance for the Fulfilment value chain. The role is responsible for defining quality standards, conducting process audits, identifying leakages and risk points, driving root-cause based corrective actions, enabling automation and process redesign, and institutionalizing governance dashboards that provide leadership with a clear risk, action, ownership, and impact view.
Key ResponsibilitiesQuality governance framework
- Define and institutionalize Fulfil quality standards, process markers, audit checklists, scoring methodology, and governance cadence.
- Create a standardized process quality score covering coverage, cycle time, defects, rework, automation index, compliance, and customer impact.
- Ensure QA involvement in all major Fulfil change interventions, system changes, and process redesign discussions before rollout.
Process download to functional team / CFT, audits and assurance
- Conduct structured Process downloads to teams in fulfil, conduct audits across critical stages from, order validation, feasibility, provisioning, installation, testing, closure, billing handoff, and post-fulfil hygiene.
- Identify process gaps, manual interventions, compliance deviations, data quality issues, handoff failures, and customer-impacting risks.
- Publish audit observations with severity, ownership, target closure date, control gaps, and preventive action requirements.
Root cause analysis and corrective action
- Lead RCA for repeat defects, delayed orders, hold reasons, rework, failed closures, billing mismatches, customer escalations, and avoidable exceptions.
- Drive CAPA closure with clear owner accountability, evidence-based validation, and recurrence-prevention controls.
- Convert audit findings into actionable improvement charters with defined benefits and measurable impact.
Process excellence and automation
- Partner with Fulfil, IT, Product, Commercial, Sales, Governance, and field teams to simplify processes and remove non-value-added steps.
- Identify digitization opportunities for workflow automation, system controls, stage-gate governance, exception handling, and dashboard automation.
- Promote first-time-right execution through preventive controls, validation rules, and process discipline.
Quality scorecards and leadership reviews
- Build and publish QA scorecards, red-amber-green dashboards, risk heatmaps, action trackers, and business-impact views.
- Present insights in leadership forums with concise commentary on risks, root causes, accountability, and required decisions.
- Track adoption of corrective actions and ensure benefits are validated after deployment.
Stakeholder management and capability building
- Work cross-functionally with Fulfil operations, Service Delivery, Sales, Product, IT, Finance, Commercial, field partners, and governance teams.
- Coach process owners and functional leads on quality expectations, audit readiness, defect prevention, and metric interpretation.
- Create a culture of measurable quality ownership rather than inspection-only compliance.
| Measure | Definition / What to track | Indicative Target / Expectation | Business Impact |
| Process Quality Score | Composite score across audit compliance, defect rate, rework, data quality, cycle time adherence, and CX impact. | QoQ / YoY improvement no deterioration in critical process markers. | Improves predictability, control, and leadership visibility. |
| Audit Plan Adherence | Number of audits completed vs approved audit calendar across critical Fulfil stages. | = 95% adherence to plan. | Ensures adequate assurance coverage and early risk detection. |
| Critical Findings | Critical audit observations impacting customer, revenue, compliance, or billing accuracy. | Zero open critical findings beyond agreed timeline. | Reduces customer and business risk. |
| Gap Closure Timeliness | % of audit gaps closed within committed target date with validated evidence. | = 90% closure within timeline. | Improves accountability and execution discipline. |
| First-Time-Right Fulfilment | % orders completed without rework, avoidable hold, data correction, or reprocessing. | Continuous improvement by process and circle/function. | Reduces cycle time and operational effort. |
| Cycle Time Reduction | Reduction in controllable TTL fulfilment time, stage aging, and avoidable delay buckets. | Improvement vs baseline and AOP commitment. | Accelerates delivery and revenue realization. |
| Automation / Manual Touchpoint Reduction | % reduction in manual entries, offline files, duplicate updates, or manual approvals. | Measured reduction with each improvement release. | Improves scalability, accuracy, and governance. |
| CX Impact | NPS, complaints, repeat follow-ups, escalation incidence, and customer-impacting fulfilment defects. | Improvement vs baseline with RCA linkage. | Strengthens customer experience and retention. |
| Efficiency Gain | Validated value of productivity, cost avoidance, effort savings, or working-capital / revenue benefits. | Monthly / annualized benefit quantified. | Links QA to measurable business outcomes. |
| Adoption & Control Effectiveness | Usage of new controls, dashboard adoption, recurring exceptions, and recurrence after CAPA. | Sustained adoption and reduced recurrence. | Ensures improvements are embedded, not one-time fixes. |
| Education | Graduate degree in Engineering, Technology, Business, Operations, or equivalent. MBA / PG qualification will be an advantage. |
| Experience | 8-12 years of experience in Quality Assurance, Process Excellence, Fulfilment, Service Delivery, Operations, Telecom, B2B enterprise workflows, or transformation roles. |
| Preferred Certifications | Six Sigma Green Belt / Black Belt, Lean, ISO/QMS, project management, data analytics, or process improvement certification preferred. |
| Domain Knowledge | Understanding of Opportunity-to-Order, order validation, provisioning, installation, testing, hold governance, closure, billing handoff, and partner / field operations. |
| Technical Skills | Strong data analysis, dashboarding, trend interpretation, RCA, process mapping, SOP/control design, audit methodology, and business case quantification. |
| Digital Skills | Working knowledge of workflow systems, CRM/order management tools, field applications, Power BI/Excel dashboards, automation use-cases, and system control design. |
| Leadership Skills | Cross-functional influencing, executive communication, stakeholder alignment, ambiguity management, structured problem solving, and ownership mindset. |
- Quality mindset with strong focus on preventive controls and measurable assurance.
- Ability to separate operational KPIs from true QA indicators and convert both into action-oriented governance.
- Strong RCA discipline and comfort with data-backed decision making.
- Stakeholder influencing across Sales, Fulfil, IT, Product, Commercial, Finance, Governance, and field partner teams.
- Executive communication with clear risk, action, impact, and decision framing.
- Continuous improvement orientation with ability to simplify, standardize, digitize, and sustain controls.
- Fulfil QA framework, audit calendar, process markers, sampling methodology, and scoring model.
- Monthly QA scorecard and leadership dashboard with risk heatmap, ageing, owners, and closure status.
- Audit reports with severity classification, RCA, CAPA, preventive controls, and evidence validation.
- Improvement pipeline covering process simplification, automation, data quality, cycle-time reduction, and CX improvement.
- Quarterly business-impact statement quantifying revenue, efficiency, cost, cycle-time, and customer-experience benefits.
| Horizon | Expected Outcomes | Evidence of Success |
| First 90 Days | Baseline process quality score, audit plan, process markers, dashboard structure, and top risk register established. | Approved framework, baseline scorecard, audit calendar, and first risk / action report. |
| First 180 Days | Recurring audit cadence, gap closure governance, CAPA validation, and improvement charters active. | Closure adherence, RCA quality, reduction in repeat findings, and leadership dashboard adoption. |
| First 12 Months | QA operating model embedded with measurable impact across cycle time, rework, automation, CX, and efficiency. | Sustained score improvement, validated business benefits, and reduced critical defects. |
- Fulfil Operations, Service Delivery, Sales, Product, IT / Automation, Commercial, Finance, Governance, Field Operations, and partner teams.
- Leadership forums for quality governance, process excellence review, risk review, customer-impact review, and transformation review.
- Strategic and execution-focused with strong ownership mindset.
- Comfortable operating in ambiguity while creating structure, governance, and measurable outcomes.
- Able to convert quality observations into business impact and leadership-ready narratives.
- Balanced orientation toward audits, process excellence, automation, and customer experience.
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