Director, Advanced Manufacturing Analytics

Role: Senior leader responsible for developing and executing the global digital manufacturing analytics strategy at Alcon, focusing on advanced data insights across multiple manufacturing sites. Responsibilities include managing a 2–3-year roadmap, piloting AI/ML solutions rapidly, owning and evolving global KPI dashboards into predictive tools, and partnering with third-party vendors to accelerate value delivery. The role encompasses influencing data architectures, ensuring operational AI/ML controls, fostering change management, and building scalable data products. It also involves leading solution lifecycle from ideation to deployment, overseeing KPI and analytics product ownership, managing stakeholder and vendor relationships, and ensuring compliant, secure AI/ML solutions. The position emphasizes cultivating a data-driven culture, developing playbooks, and mentoring teams on data literacy. Qualifications: Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience; at least 10 years in manufacturing data analytics, with preferred exposure to process or discrete manufacturing, industrial data systems, time-series modeling, and GxP environments. Skills include strategic thinking, stakeholder influence, results-driven mindset, vendor management, and talent development. High-value specifics: focus on manufacturing performance metrics such as OEE, yield, inventory, and scrap; integration with enterprise systems like MES, SCADA, and IoT; and regulated environment compliance. Work setup: likely hybrid with global collaboration; travel requirements are not specified.