Life Sciences Smart Manufactuing Strategy & Innovation Manager

Deloitte • Dallas, TX • 3h ago

Deloitte is defining the digital landscape. We are pioneering a new model for a new digital world. Do you like to challenge the status quo? Does curiosity feed your soul? Are you addicted to the thrill of creating? Do you want to be your authentic self at work? Then consider a career within our Supply Chain and Network Operations practice. Creative design, state-of-the-art technology, and your imagination merge here to create lasting impact for our clients. Not to mention make for a pretty fun and meaningful career!

The team

Our team helps clients transform their value chains into competitive advantages. We drive efficiency, improve flexibility, and increase responsiveness through proactive insights and decision-making. We advise, implement, and operate transformational solutions that bring world-class supply network and operational capabilities to our clients. We provide operational know-how, digital technologies, advanced analytics, and industry-specific hybrid solutions to deliver unprecedented client value. Additionally, we improve operations, product, and material flow across the breadth of the value chain and create greater supply network synergy.

Recruiting for this role ends 2/1/26.

Work you'll do

Industry-leading clients. An award-winning culture. Top notch connections. Big opportunities. At Deloitte, you'll work with the best in the business to solve the toughest problems in business. From learning to leadership, this is your chance to take your career to the next level.

This role is responsible for driving, delivering, and optimizing new capital projects, technical transfers, and CMC process development within the life sciences sector, with a particular emphasis on advanced digital manufacturing and smart operations initiatives.

Illustrative activities:

Lead and Execute Life Sciences Capital Projects: Oversee end-to-end delivery of complex GMP-regulated capital programs-from concept, user requirement specifications (URS), and vendor selection through qualification and operational handoff. Ensure timelines, resources, and risk mitigation are optimized to meet evolving commercial and R&D priorities.

Drive Technical Transfers & CMC Process Development: Partner with global and cross-functional teams (Quality, Validation, Automation, Engineering, Operations) to standardize and scale manufacturing capabilities. Ensure compliant, scalable, and repeatable processes for new product introductions and technical transfers.

Deliver Smart Manufacturing & Industrial IoT Solutions: Architect and implement digital modernization roadmaps. Leverage platforms such as AWS, OSI PI, MES systems, MQTT, Cognite, and HighByte for digitized data collection, predictive analytics, and real-time operational insights.

Embed Operational Analytics & Data-Driven Improvement: Deploy AI-driven analytics and self-service reporting tools to enhance manufacturing performance, improve customer satisfaction, and accelerate value realization across global biotech organizations.

Stakeholder Collaboration & Technical Leadership: Act as liaison between operational teams and executive leadership. Translate technical requirements and regulatory needs into actionable projects and measurable business value.

Customer-Centric Program Governance: Own governance frameworks to align KPIs/OKRs, track ROI, and standardize engineering/validation practices across multiple sites. Lead customer-focused initiatives in digital training, continuous improvement, and value-based client engagement.

Basic Qualifications Required:

A Bachelor's Degree in Industrial or Mechanical Engineering, Computer Science/Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering or equivalent

9+ years' experience in biopharmaceutical manufacturing, capital project management, or digital operations leadership

Experience with new capital project delivery, technical transfer, and CMC process development for regulated life sciences environments

Deployment of smart manufacturing/IIoT applications (AWS, OSI PI, MES, MQTT, Cognite, HighByte, etc.)

Experience leading programs for global enterprises and/or major pharma clients

Expert in standard engineering and validation practices (URS, FAT, SAT, IQ/OQ/PQ)

Ability to travel up to 50%, on average, based on the work you do and the clients and industries/sectors you serve

Must be legally authorized to work in the United States now and in the future

Preferred:

Track record of partnering with Quality, Validation, Automation, and Operations functions to deliver compliant, modernized manufacturing capabilities

MBA or advanced degree in engineering or life sciences

Consulting experience or experience in a customer-facing product leader role

Delivery of multi-phase, multi-site digital transformation/modernization initiatives in biopharma or adjacent life sciences sectors

Information for applicants with a need for accommodation: https://www2.deloitte.com/us/en/pages/careers/articles/join-deloitte-assistance-for-disabled-applicants.html

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability or protected veteran status, or any other legally protected basis, in accordance with applicable law.

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