Director, Advanced Manufacturing Analytics

Director Of Advanced Manufacturing Analytics

At Alcon, we're passionate about enhancing sight and helping people see brilliantly. With more than 25,000 associates, we innovate fearlessly, champion progress, and act swiftly to impact global eye health. We foster an inclusive culture, recognizing your contributions and offering opportunities to grow your career like never before. Together, we make a difference in the lives of our patients and customers. Are you ready to join us?

Alcon is accelerating its digital manufacturing ambitions, integrating modern operational technologies with enterprise digital systems to enable world-class performance across its 16+ global manufacturing sites and across the full supply chain. Central to this transformation is the strategic development and deployment of insights and functionality on top of the digital landscape.

The Director of Advanced Manufacturing Analytics will own the strategic development and deployment of advanced data analytics capabilities across a multi-site manufacturing and supply chain network. This is a business- and application-focused role that identifies high-value opportunities, rapidly pilots solutions, and scales proven capabilities to all sites by orchestrating internal data science and data engineering teams, site operations, and selected third-party partners.

You will also serve as the business owner for global KPI dashboards, evolving them into predictive and prescriptive tools for metrics such as Purchase Price Variance (PPV), Inventory, Yield, OEE, Schedule Attainment, and more.

In this role, a typical day will include:

• Enterprise Data Science Strategy for Manufacturing
• Rapid Pilots ? Scaled Deployment
• Global KPI Ownership & Evolution
• Partner Ecosystem & Vendor Strategy
• Manufacturing Data Products
• Change Management & Adoption
• Strategy & Portfolio
• Solution Lifecycle Leadership
• KPI & Analytics Product Ownership
• Stakeholder & Vendor Management
• Operations & MLOps Oversight
• Culture, Capability, and Ways of Working

What You'll Bring to Alcon:

• Bachelor's Degree or Equivalent years of directly related experience (or high school +18 yrs; Assoc.+14 yrs; M.S.+7 yrs; PhD+3 yrs)
• The ability to fluently read, write, understand, and communicate in English
• 10 Years of Relevant Experience

Preferred Qualifications:

• Background in process manufacturing or discrete multi-site operations; exposure to OEE, yield, scrap, PPV, inventory, S&OP.
• Knowledge of industrial data (MES/SCADA/Historians/IoT), time-series modeling, and computer vision for quality inspection.
• Experience in regulated environments (e.g., GxP, CSV) and audit-ready analytics.
• MBA, MS/PhD in a quantitative field, or equivalent experience blending business + analytics.

Leadership Competencies:

• Influence Without Authority: Aligns diverse stakeholders; secures resources and decisions across functions and sites.
• Results Mindset: Prioritizes outcomes over output; maintains clear roadmaps and success metrics.
• Bias for Action: Moves from concept to pilot quickly; iterates based on evidence.
• Strategic Thinking & Systems View: Connects network-level levers (cost/service/quality) to local actions.
• Communication: Translates technical detail into executive-ready narratives and operator-level guidance.
• Vendor & Partner Stewardship: Builds durable, value-based partnerships; holds vendors accountable to impact.
• Talent Development: Improves data literacy across operations; mentors analysts and engineers (direct or dotted line) fostering inclusive debate, diverse perspectives, and fail-fast learning.

How You Can Thrive at Alcon:

• See your career like never before with focused growth and development opportunities
• Join Alcon's mission to provide outstanding, innovative products and solutions to improve sight, improve lives, and grow your career!
• Alcon provides robust benefits package including health, life, retirement, flexible time off, and much more!

Alcon takes pride in maintaining an inclusive environment that values different perspectives and our policies are non-discriminatory in recruitment, hiring, training, promotion or other employment practices for reasons of race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, sexual orientation, marital or veteran status, disability, or any other legally protected status. Alcon is also committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodation to individuals with disabilities.