# Market evidence report — industrial-quality-manager

Source: **33 real job ads** (JSearch API, countries: us 33), extracted into the MSSQL evidence store; as of 2026-07-14.
This report contains extracted, aggregated facts only — no ad text is
reproduced (copyright / platform terms).

## Seniority distribution

| Seniority | Ads | Share |
|---|---|---|
| mid | 30 | 91 % |
| lead | 3 | 9 % |

## Tools — full market ranking

| # | Item | Ads | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Microsoft Office | 11 | 33 % |
| 2 | Microsoft Excel | 4 | 12 % |
| 3 | Microsoft Word | 3 | 9 % |
| 4 | SAP | 3 | 9 % |

## Hard skills — full market ranking

| # | Item | Ads | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | data analysis | 15 | 45 % |
| 2 | root cause analysis | 13 | 39 % |
| 3 | quality control | 11 | 33 % |
| 4 | quality assurance | 10 | 30 % |
| 5 | process improvement | 9 | 27 % |
| 6 | internal auditing | 7 | 21 % |
| 7 | regulatory compliance | 7 | 21 % |
| 8 | corrective action implementation | 6 | 18 % |
| 9 | quality management | 6 | 18 % |
| 10 | corrective action | 4 | 12 % |
| 11 | change control | 3 | 9 % |
| 12 | compliance management | 3 | 9 % |
| 13 | continuous improvement | 3 | 9 % |
| 14 | deviation investigation | 3 | 9 % |
| 15 | document control | 3 | 9 % |
| 16 | process control | 3 | 9 % |
| 17 | quality management systems | 3 | 9 % |
| 18 | risk assessment | 3 | 9 % |
| 19 | risk management | 3 | 9 % |
| 20 | statistical process control | 3 | 9 % |

## Methods — full market ranking

| # | Item | Ads | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | six sigma | 11 | 33 % |
| 2 | continuous improvement | 9 | 27 % |
| 3 | ISO 9001 | 8 | 24 % |
| 4 | AS9100 | 7 | 21 % |
| 5 | lean manufacturing | 7 | 21 % |
| 6 | iso standards | 5 | 15 % |
| 7 | SPC | 4 | 12 % |
| 8 | cGMP | 3 | 9 % |
| 9 | Lean Six Sigma | 3 | 9 % |

## Responsibilities — full market ranking

| # | Item | Ads | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | team leadership | 9 | 27 % |
| 2 | training delivery | 5 | 15 % |
| 3 | quality issue investigation | 4 | 12 % |

## Regional breakdown

> **Corpus note:** 33 relevant ads in total — below the 100-ad target for a fully reliable ranking. Percentages above should be read as indicative.

### US (us)

33 ads.

**Top hard skills:**

- data analysis — 45 % (15 ads)
- root cause analysis — 39 % (13 ads)
- quality control — 33 % (11 ads)
- quality assurance — 30 % (10 ads)
- process improvement — 27 % (9 ads)
- internal auditing — 21 % (7 ads)
- regulatory compliance — 21 % (7 ads)
- corrective action implementation — 18 % (6 ads)
- quality management — 18 % (6 ads)
- corrective action — 12 % (4 ads)

**Top tools:**

- Microsoft Office — 33 % (11 ads)
- Microsoft Excel — 12 % (4 ads)
- Microsoft Word — 9 % (3 ads)
- SAP — 9 % (3 ads)
- ERP system — 6 % (2 ads)
- Microsoft PowerPoint — 6 % (2 ads)
- minitab — 6 % (2 ads)
- SharePoint — 6 % (2 ads)

**Seniority:** mid 91 % · lead 9 %

### UK (gb)

**Insufficient evidence** — 0 ads (minimum for a regional ranking: 30). No ranking is reported for this region.

### EU/DACH (de, at, ch, nl)

**Insufficient evidence** — 0 ads (minimum for a regional ranking: 30). No ranking is reported for this region.


## Job title variants in the market

| Title | Ads |
|---|---|
| Quality Manager | 8 |
| Quality Supervisor | 2 |
| Associate Manager, Quality Manager | 1 |
| Manufacturing Quality Management - Now Hiring | 1 |
| Nuclear Quality Manager - Lead QA, Compliance & CI | 1 |
| QA Manager | 1 |
| QA Operations Manager | 1 |
| QC Supervisor | 1 |
| QMS Supervisor | 1 |
| Quality Assurance Manager | 1 |
| Quality Assurance Manager — Metal Manufacturing (ISO/AISC) | 1 |
| Quality Assurance/Control Manager | 1 |
| Quality Control Manager | 1 |
| Quality Control Manager/Superintendent | 1 |
| Quality Control Supervisor, Center Township, PA | 1 |
| Quality Manager - 1299 | 1 |
| Quality Manager (Mitsubishi Chemical Advanced Materials) | 1 |
| Quality Manager (Temp) - 401061 | 1 |
| Quality Manager 24/7 Manufacturing & CI Leader | 1 |
| Quality Manager Aerospace Lab Leader | 1 |
| Quality Manager II | 1 |
| Quality Supervisor - Night Shift | 1 |
| Quality Supervisor: Lead Audits & Continuous Improvement | 1 |
| Quality Systems Manager | 1 |
| Senior Quality Manager IATF/ISO Compliance | 1 |

Methodology: entities extracted per ad ({hard_skills, tools, methods, responsibilities, seniority}), normalized, counted as DISTINCT ads per entity; report threshold ≥ 3 ads. Headline sections in skills.md/tools.md use the stricter ≥ 20 % threshold.