Life Sciences Manufacturing Transformation Lead with AI

EY; Stamford (CT); Remote; USD 150,000 - 375,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical and dental coverage

Pension and 401(k)

Paid time off

Job summary

EY is recruiting a Senior Manager in Supply Chain Manufacturing to lead complex Life Sciences transformations for pharmaceutical, biotech, and medical-device manufacturers. You will oversee design, deployment, stabilization, and value realization while aligning plant operations with enterprise data and systems in regulated environments.

You will direct multidisciplinary teams, shape analytics and AI use cases, and ensure governance, quality, and risk controls across global client engagements.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, life sciences, manufacturing, supply chain, information systems, business, or related discipline.
• 10+ years of relevant Life Sciences manufacturing, engineering, or AI/data experience.
• Experience leading complex manufacturing transformation or technology-enabled improvements in regulated environments.
• Experience delivering client-facing programs with governance, resources, quality, and risk accountability.
• Ability to travel as needed; travel may be extensive (80–100%).
• Experience translating requirements into process, data, and technical specs with traceability through testing.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end Life Sciences manufacturing transformations from assessment to value realization.
• Build trusted relationships with senior stakeholders across manufacturing, quality, MS&T, engineering, supply chain, digital, and IT/OT.
• Translate priorities into practical work plans and measurable outcomes.
• Direct multidisciplinary teams across manufacturing process design, MES/MOM, automation, data engineering, AI, and architecture.
• Lead design for batch and discrete execution, eDHRs, recipes, and product genealogy.
• Guide integration across MES/MOM, ERP, LIMS, QMS, historians, and cloud/edge platforms.

Skills

Techno-functional leadership

Executive communication

Regulatory knowledge (GxP)

Data and AI fluency

Program delivery delivery

Education

Bachelor’s degree in engineering, life sciences, manufacturing, supply chain, information systems, business, or related

Tools

MES/MOM

eBR/eDHRs

ERP integration

LIMS / QMS

Job description

EY is recruiting a Senior Manager in Supply Chain Manufacturing to lead complex Life Sciences transformations for pharmaceutical, biotech, and medical-device manufacturers. You will oversee design, deployment, stabilization, and value realization while aligning plant operations with enterprise data and systems in regulated environments.

You will direct multidisciplinary teams, shape analytics and AI use cases, and ensure governance, quality, and risk controls across global client engagements.