Hybrid PAT Manager – Life Sciences Consulting Lead

Cognizant; Pachuca; Hybrid; MXN 900,000 - 1,300,000; Full time

Job summary

Cognizant Consulting invites you to join as a PAT Specialist (Manager) to drive discovery workshops with manufacturing SMEs and translate needs into actionable requirements for Process Analytical Technology within GMP environments.

You will lead PAT use-case development, ensure validation readiness, and collaborate with Quality, Regulatory, Engineering, VMRD, and IT to deliver scalable solutions. This hybrid role emphasizes timelines, ROI, and cross-team coordination.

Qualifications

• Experience implementing PAT including validation strategy and regulatory/GMP requirements.
• Strong knowledge of manufacturing operations and cross-functional interfaces.
• Expertise in GMP, electronic records, data integrity, and validated systems.
• Excellent workshop facilitation, stakeholder management, and executive-ready communication.
• Ability to build project timelines, cost models, and ROI cases in regulated environments.

Responsibilities

• Lead discovery workshops with client SMEs to define scope and value for PAT use cases.
• Translate manufacturing needs into requirements and documentation (process, data, systems).
• Evaluate PAT options, support vendor engagement, obtain quotes and ROI cases.
• Build integrated PAT timelines including GMP, validation, and regulatory deliverables.
• Coordinate with cross-functional teams to align responsibilities and readiness.
• Support implementation partners through clarification, risk management, milestones.

Skills

PAT implementation

GMP & data integrity

Workshop facilitation

Stakeholder management

Documentation

ROI analysis

Job description

Cognizant Consulting invites you to join as a PAT Specialist (Manager) to drive discovery workshops with manufacturing SMEs and translate needs into actionable requirements for Process Analytical Technology within GMP environments.

You will lead PAT use-case development, ensure validation readiness, and collaborate with Quality, Regulatory, Engineering, VMRD, and IT to deliver scalable solutions. This hybrid role emphasizes timelines, ROI, and cross-team coordination.