Job Description
Data Product Manager Pharma Manufacturing & Supply Chain (Remote | Contract or Permanent | Occasional Site Visits)
About the role (short):
We're hiring a pragmatic, product-minded Data Product Manager to lead AI-driven data products that improve manufacturing consistency (recipes/formulations), yield and supply-chain resilience across pharmaceutical manufacturing. Remote-first, occasional visits to client sites. Open to contract or permanent candidates with strong pharma manufacturing experience.
What you'll own
1. Define, build and run data products that use AI/ML to optimise manufacturing recipes, batch consistency and supply-chain decisioning.
2. Translate operational problems (variation, deviation, OEE, out-of-spec batches, shortage risk) into measurable data product outcomes.
3. Partner with Manufacturing, Quality, Regulatory, Supply Chain, IT/OT and Data Science to prioritise, scope and deliver features.
4. Own product lifecycle: discovery, requirements, MVP, validation, deployment, monitoring and continuous improvement.
5. Ensure solutions meet GxP, GMP and regulatory audit requirements (data lineage, explainability, versioning).
6. Drive data product KPIs: batch yield, variance reduction, time-to-release, forecast accuracy, inventory turns.
7. Work with engineering to embed MLOps, model vali...