Position Details: Domain Consultant - Life Sciences Manufacturing

Domain Consultant – Life Sciences Manufacturing

Locations: 1) Edison, NJ 2) San Francisco, CA 3) Chicago, IL

Experienced Life Sciences Domain / Business or Transformation Consultants driving Advisory Services and Delivery, for pharmaceutical and medical devices companies in the Manufacturing Domain. Provides specific domain expertise and thought leadership across the industry landscape. 

Responsibilities

•Drives Advisory opportunity discovery, sales and execution. Helps shape an end state vision for clients’ businesses –Pharma/Biopharma/Medical Devices manufacturing areas

•Guides clients in the adoption of leading-edge business processes and best practices; get the best thinking from his/her staff and client team members, in their implementation

•Confidently and effectively manages client stakeholders and Clientresources to deliver results

•Participates in supporting executive level client Steering Committee meetings; can manage conflict resolution among various stakeholders/staff to successfully support change management initiatives.

•Where needed, in an owner or supporter role, drafts proposals, plans phased project execution, develops detailed project plans and manages program budgets and costs; fosters shared accountability for the results-based implementation plan

•Facilitates the development of Life Sciences asset advancements by submissions to Client’ intellectual capital repository.

Requirements:

•PhD / Post Graduation in Sciences / Engineering Graduate or Post Graduate 

•MBA is preferred

•More than fifteen years of experience in the Life Sciences (LS) industry (incl. Pharma, Biotech, Medical Devices) Research with experience in the areas of Pharma/Biopharma or Medical Devices Manufacturing

•Strong experience Life Sciences Manufacturing Domain, with Consulting / Advisory company , global pharmaceutical company / IT Company 

•For the domain area of expertise above, has a thorough understanding of Business Processes, KPIs, Challenges, and Industry Trends and Regulations and improving the manufacturing process using techniques like LEAN, Six Sigma etc. 

•Nice to have: Experience in Quality Experience or Expertise in Digital Manufacturing will be an added Advantage or Technology Transfer or Product Scale Up

•Has experience with IT enablement and business transformations, and holistic knowledge of Business and IT Landscape for the domain area of experience above.

•Has familiarity with conducting Business Process Reviews, Business Process Improvements, IT Landscape Assessment, IT simplification, driving the adoption of new technology

•Experience in developing business aligned IT solutions leveraging latest technologies. Familiar with usual office software plus selected or dedicated (as per focus area above) relevant domain-specific packages

•Direct working experience in the LS related industry for a minimum of 5 years

•Strong team building skills, strategy, and operations thinking, solution & result orientation, intercultural competence

•Excellent verbal and written communication skills

•Excellent presentation skills – development and delivery

•Good public speaking/publishing record 

•Coaching and mentoring teams with strong domain expertise for the Pharma or Medical Devices manufacturing domain

•Good  understanding of life sciences industry global trends, regulations, guidelines, and directives