About the Role
As a Manager within EY’s Life Sciences Transformation practice, you will play a critical role in delivering laboratory transformation initiatives for Life Sciences clients across R&D, quality control, and manufacturing environments. You will focus on helping clients modernize laboratory operations through digital enablement, operating model redesign, and system implementations, while ensuring solutions are fit for purpose in regulated environments. You will work as part of integrated engagement teams, leading discrete workstreams and serving as a key day‑to‑day client contact. This role is laboratory‑first, with quality, regulatory, and validation considerations embedded to enable compliant, scalable, and sustainable lab operations rather than serving as the primary focus. Key areas of emphasis include digital laboratory modernization, LIMS and laboratory platform implementations, laboratory process and operating model design, and integration of lab data and systems across the product lifecycle.
Responsibilities
- Leading laboratory transformation workstreams, including digital lab modernization initiatives, LIMS implementations, and laboratory operating model and process redesign across R&D, QC, and manufacturing labs
- Translating client objectives into detailed delivery plans, requirements, and execution roadmaps focused on laboratory operations and technology enablement
- Managing day‑to‑day delivery across lab-focused workstreams, ensuring timelines, scope, and quality expectations are met
- Integrating quality, regulatory, and computer systems validation considerations into laboratory solutions in partnership with SMEs, ensuring solutions are compliant without over‑engineering
- Serving as a primary client contact at the manager and director level, facilitating working sessions, status updates, and issue resolution
- Leading and coaching consultants and senior consultants, providing direction, feedback, and development support
- Supporting business development and account activities, including proposal development, client presentations, and contribution to laboratory transformation offerings and assets
Requirements
- A bachelor’s or master’s degree in Life Sciences, Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field
- 5+ years of Life Sciences experience, with a strong emphasis on laboratory operations, lab systems, or lab transformation initiatives
- 3+ years of experience leading project workstreams or components of larger programs in consulting or industry
- Hands-on experience with laboratory systems (e.g., LIMS, ELN, LES) and/or lab data and integration platforms
- Foundational knowledge of computer systems validation, data integrity, and regulatory expectations for laboratory environments
- Experience supporting global Life Sciences organizations across R&D, QC, or manufacturing laboratories
- Exposure to proposal development, internal asset creation, or offering development related to laboratory transformation
- Experience mentoring consultants or senior consultants
Skills
- Proven experience leading laboratory-focused transformation workstreams in Life Sciences environments
- Strong understanding of laboratory operations, lab workflows, and digital lab technologies (e.g., LIMS, LES, ELN, lab data platforms)
- Working knowledge of quality, regulatory, and validation requirements as they apply to laboratory systems and processes
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills, with the ability to bridge lab, IT, and business stakeholders
- Experience managing delivery risk, dependencies, and trade-offs within complex programs
- Ability to balance innovation, usability, and compliance in GxP-regulated laboratory environments
- Commitment to developing junior team members and contributing to a collaborative team culture
- Curiosity and interest in emerging laboratory technologies and trends within Life Sciences
Location
- New York
- Atlanta
- Boston
- Chicago
- Dallas
- Hoboken
- Houston
- McLean
- North Carolina
- Philadelphia
Work Type
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- Manager
- Senior leader
Education Level
- Bachelor's degree
- Master's degree
Salary/Compensations
- US base salary range: $114,800 to $210,600
- New York City Metro Area, Washington State and California (excluding Sacramento) base salary range: $137,900 to $239,300
Benefits
- Medical and dental coverage
- Pension and 401(k) plans
- Wide range of paid time off options
- Flexible vacation policy
- Time off for designated EY Paid Holidays, Winter/Summer breaks, Personal/Family Care, and other leaves of absence
About the Company
- EY is building a better working world by creating new value for clients, people, society and the planet, while building trust in capital markets.
- Enabled by data, AI and advanced technology, EY teams help clients shape the future with confidence and develop answers for the most pressing issues of today and tomorrow.
- EY teams work across a full spectrum of services in assurance, consulting, tax, strategy and transactions.
- Fueled by sector insights, a globally connected, multi-disciplinary network and diverse ecosystem partners, EY teams can provide services in more than 150 countries and territories.
Equal Opportunity
- EY provides equal employment opportunities to applicants and employees without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, pregnancy, genetic information, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status, or any other legally protected basis, including arrest and conviction records, in accordance with applicable law.
- EY is committed to providing reasonable accommodation to qualified individuals with disabilities including veterans with disabilities.
