**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 recent 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.

📌 Director, AI-Enabled Manufacturing Innovation (IVI) (Hyderabad)
🏢 AMGEN
📍 Hyderabad