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 Amgens 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 partnersensuring capabilities are designed with user needs, deployed with robust 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, stabilizati