Senior Director Accreditation & Compliance

The Senior Director Accreditation & Compliance is accountable for defining the accreditation strategy and quality system framework and governing conformance, audit readiness, and external assessments across all conformity assessment activities globally.

Why This Role Matters

• Protects UL Solutions’ license to operate, market access, and brand credibility by ensuring accreditations and related compliance requirements are maintained in good standing. 
• Aligns the accreditation and credential portfolio with business needs, service scope, operational readiness, and accreditor requirements. 
• Reduces enterprise risk by providing independent oversight of accreditation, audit readiness, and compliance across conformity assessment activities. 
• Supports consistent and efficient operations as a true business partner by embedding quality and compliance requirements into daily execution, reducing rework, audit fatigue, and operational friction.
• Enables business growth and service innovation through clear, scalable, and reliable accreditation governance.

• Owns and drives UL Solutions’ accreditation strategy for Testing, Inspection and Certification activities. 
• Aligns the accreditation portfolio and accrediting body relationships with business needs, service scope, ownership, and streamlined global processes and tools. 
• Defines and maintains the accreditation and quality system framework, including clear enterprise requirements and governance. 
• Governs compliance, conformance, and accreditation readiness through internal and external audit planning, assessment oversight, and corrective action / CAPA governance, including oversight of the CAR project. 
• Provides enterprise interpretation and operationalization of accreditation, conformity assessment body, and related regulatory requirements. 
• Acts as the senior UL Solutions interface and business partner to accreditors, regulators, scheme owners, TIC, and operations.
• Does not own operational process execution, but ensures requirements are clearly defined, governed, and assessed for conformance, and identifies systemic deviations requiring correction or escalation. All while focusing on continuous improvement within the team, high quality and cost efficiency in mind (embracing AI to optimize internal processes). 
• Able to provide “red flags” / early indicators and needs for improvement as well as conformity assessment business analytics for leadership.
• Enable a future ready ULS TIC scenario, where modeling, simulation and other AI measures are accepted by key regulators and accreditors.
• Protects UL Solutions’ license to operate, market access, and brand credibility by ensuring accreditations and related compliance requirements are maintained in good standing. 
• Aligns the accreditation and credential portfolio with business needs, service scope, operational readiness, and accreditor requirements. 
• Reduces enterprise risk by providing independent oversight of accreditation, audit readiness, and compliance across conformity assessment activities. 
• Supports consistent and efficient operations as a true business partner by embedding quality and compliance requirements into daily execution, reducing rework, audit fatigue, and operational friction. 
• Enables business growth and service innovation through clear, scalable, and reliable accreditation governance.

Accreditation & Compliance Strategy Setting:

• Define and lead enterprise accreditation and compliance strategy aligned with business priorities, risk appetite, and operational efficiency.

• Obtain, maintain, streamline, expand, or exit accreditations based on value, execution readiness, cost, and risk. 

• Establish consistent enterprise interpretations of accreditation requirements and ensure they are operationalized through processes. 

• Align accreditations and accrediting bodies with clear ownership supported by streamlined global processes and tools.

Enterprise Conformity Assessment Compliance, Oversight, and Integrity:

• Ensure conformity assessment activities meet applicable standards (e.g. ISO/IEC 17025, 17065) through process‑embedded controls. 

• Maintain independence and objectivity in compliance decisions. 

• Embed impartiality risk mitigation into operational workflows. 

• Planning and executing internal and external audits for all credentials to manage risk and ensure compliance to all internal and external requirements

• Oversee internal and external findings and corrective actions with focus on root cause and systemic improvement.

Accreditation Operations & Readiness:

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