Description
**Job Summary**
The **Director,** **AI-Enabled Manufacturing Innovation (IVI)** is a senior leader within Amgen India (AIN) responsible for building and leading a **product-led, AI-first delivery organization** that accelerates digital and data-enabled capabilities across Amgen’s global manufacturing network.
This role sits at the intersection of **Manufacturing, Technology, and Quality** and serves as a primary interface between **site and functional end users** and technology delivery partners—ensuring capabilities are designed with user needs, deployed with strong adoption discipline, and sustained at scale. The Director will establish and operate a repeatable lifecycle to move initiatives from concept to pilot to multi-site deployment while protecting **GxP compliance, inspection readiness, supply continuity, and day-to-day performance** .
A key early priority is **building the Innovation Velocity Interface (IVI) team** in AIN, followed by operationalizing an execution model that can deliver measurable outcomes and continuously scale new capabilities over time.
**Key Responsibilities**
**Strategy & Operating Model**
+ Define and implement the **IVI strategy and operating model** aligned to manufacturing transformation priorities and enterprise standards.
+ Establish a repeatable delivery lifecycle (e.g., **intake → prioritize → prototype → validate → scale → sustain** ) with clear readiness and decision gates.
+ Translate business objectives into a prioritized portfolio of capabilities with measurable outcomes and a sustainable roadmap.
**Execution & Delivery (AI-first, Product-led)**
+ Lead a portfolio of **digital and data-enabled capabilities** that improve operational effectiveness, visibility, standardization, and scalability across the manufacturing network.
+ Apply a **Generative and Agentic AI-first** mindset to solution discovery and delivery while ensuring appropriate controls, data integrity, and responsible use.
+ Drive disciplined execution across requirements, design, build partnership, testing, deployment, stabilization, and ongoing enhancement.
**Governance, Risk & Compliance**
+ Ensure delivery is executed within required **GxP/regulatory expectations** , validation practices, and audit-ready documentation standards.
+ Partner with Quality and business stakeholders to ensure appropriate decision-making, evidence capture, and compliance-by-design.
+ Maintain active risk/issue/dependency management, escalation discipline, and routine executive reporting.
**Stakeholder Partnership & Customer Engagement**
+ Serve as a trusted partner to **manufacturing sites and functions** , ensuring solutions are anchored in real operational needs and adoption requirements.
+ Ensure end-user engagement (requirements and testing) is structured, efficient, and minimizes burden on site teams while preserving critical expertise.
+ Build strong cross-functional alignment across manufacturing, technology delivery, and quality organizations.
**Talent Leadership & Organizational Build (AIN)**
+ **Hire, onboard, and develop** a high-performing team in AIN (product and engagement leadership, product owners, and supporting roles).
+ Build a culture of **innovation, accountability, learning, and execution excellence** , balanced with rigor for regulated operations.
+ Establish clear role expectations, performance management, and capability development pathways for the IVI organization.
**Scale, Sustain, and Continuous Improvement**
+ Ensure scaled capabilities are stabilized, adopted, and sustained with clear ownership, support models, and enhancement backlogs.
+ Track outcomes and operational performance through KPIs (e.g., adoption health, cycle time improvement, standardization, quality of insights, execution reliability).
+ Capture lessons learned from deployments and continuously improve the IVI delivery model and governance.
**Preferred Qualifications**
+ 18 to 23 years of experience leading digital enablement, product delivery, operational transformation, and/or capability building in a **regulated environment** (biopharma/manufacturing preferred).
+ Demonstrated success **building and leading teams** (including leader-first hiring and scaling new organizations).
+ Strong fluency in product management and modern delivery practices (roadmapping, prioritization, user-centered design, adoption at scale).
+ Practical understanding of applying AI and advanced analytics in enterprise settings (including governance, controls, and value measurement).
+ Strong working knowledge of **GxP expectations** , audit readiness, and delivering solutions in regulated operations (partnering effectively with Quality and compliance stakeholders).
+ Proven ability to influence across a complex global network without direct authority; strong executive communication and stakeholder management.
+ Experience operating within governance and funding release mechanisms, with disciplined planning, reporting, and escalation.
**Additional Information**
+ **Travel:** as needed to support global stakeholder engagement (limited/periodic).
+ **Work Style:** global collaboration across time zones; strong partnering across sites, functions, and technology teams.
