Industry X – Life Sciences Digital Manufacturing Manager
About The Position
Accenture's Industry X group focuses on embedding innovation, intelligence, and sustainability into manufacturing and engineering processes, enabling clients to quickly adapt to future demands. Industry X defines itself as the digital reinvention of manufacturing and engineering, aiming to create hyper-personalized industrial experiences, enhance operational efficiency, transparency, and traceability, make a tangible impact on sustainability, and generate new revenue streams through smart, sustainable, and connected digital products and assets. The team helps clients achieve competitive agility by offering new perspectives on business and technology. This specific role aligns with Industry X’s Manufacturing & Operations practice. Professionals in this practice assist clients in their digital transformation goals within core manufacturing and operations, covering the entire asset lifecycle. They leverage domain expertise in consulting and technology to improve opex and capex efficiency and effectiveness. This includes defining and designing future manufacturing states, optimizing within factory walls, and developing organizational, operational, and technical models to modernize core operations across EHS, Operations, Maintenance, Quality, and Manufacturing Excellence functions. The practice digitizes plants, sites, and centers by scaling cross-facility operations, utilizing AI, IoT, automation, wearables, and predictive analytics to optimize multi-site plants, increase production reliability, product quality, worker safety, and sustainable operations with a more productive digital workforce.
Requirements
- Minimum of 5 years experience as part of a team focused on plant operations and operational excellence in manufacturing in the industries of Pharmaceuticals
- Minimum of 3 years exposure to manufacturing processes - traditional or digital in factory/production environment
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent (minimum 8 years' work experience). If Associate’s Degree, must have equivalent minimum 6-year work experience.
Nice To Haves
- Experience with Six Sigma methods and experience in applying Lean Manufacturing methods
- Understanding of related ERP modules (ex: SAP PP, PI, QM, etc.)
- Understanding of Plant Control Systems (DCS, PLC, SCADA, HMI, etc.)
- Experience with analytics tools (Power BI, Tableau, Qlik, MSRS, etc.)
- Industrial or engineering degree is preferred
Responsibilities
- Lead and support delivery of Life Sciences Manufacturing reinvention initiatives, with a focus on execution excellence, operational outcomes, and scalable solutions across development handoffs, tech transfer, and plant operations within large and small molecule, advanced therapy, and med tech manufacturing.
- Support sales pursuits and solution shaping for manufacturing‑led and supply chain–adjacent reinventions, contributing domain expertise across manufacturing operations, tech transfer, and engineering capabilities.
- Apply a strong understanding of manufacturing and supply chain value levers across pharmaceuticals, biotech, and MedTech, including upstream R&D handoffs and downstream commercialization and launch readiness.
- Contribute to business and technology reinvention efforts that connect manufacturing execution, quality, lifecycle platforms, and supply chain systems, enabling continuity of data, processes, and decision‑making across the end‑to‑end value chain.
- Leverage experience with manufacturing data foundations, including data‑as‑a‑product, knowledge graphs, data lineage, and AI‑enabled use cases, to support operational visibility, performance improvement, and cross‑functional alignment.
- Manage projects or workstreams end‑to‑end, including scope, planning, risks, dependencies, and delivery outcomes, while adapting to evolving client priorities.
- Build and apply industry, functional, and technical knowledge to support client conversations, solution development, and delivery of innovative manufacturing‑led ways of working.
- Lead and coordinate diverse, global Accenture teams, providing day‑to‑day direction, coaching, and quality oversight, while leveraging AI and digital tools to improve delivery effectiveness.
- Establish and maintain strong client relationships at the manager, director, and senior director levels through clear communication, structured problem solving, and delivery credibility.
- Collaborate across Accenture Supply Chain & Engineering team to deliver integrated, end‑to‑end solutions spanning manufacturing operations, lifecycle platforms, and supply chain.
- Contribute to manufacturing‑focused thought leadership, including client‑ready materials, points of view, and case examples related to manufacturing transformation, lifecycle integration, and product launch readiness.
- Develop and maintain awareness of the Life Sciences manufacturing technology ecosystem, including key platforms, vendors, and emerging capabilities relevant to operations and execution.
- Support the evolution of Accenture’s Manufacturing reinvention offerings, with opportunities to grow into broader capability, account, or portfolio leadership roles over time.
- Business process reengineering
- Lean six sigma transformation
- Manufacturing & Ops Excellence
- Asset reliability & performance management
- Process reliability
- TPM & TQM
- Production planning and scheduling
- Quality management
- Production operations
- Inventory & Material handling
- Workflow automation
- Reporting & Dashboarding
- Advance Automation
- Process Design & Simulation
Benefits
- medical coverage
- dental coverage
- vision coverage
- life coverage
- long-term disability coverage
- a 401(k) plan
- bonus opportunities
- paid holidays
- paid time off
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Manager
Number of Employees
5,001-10,000 employees
