Principal, Consulting – Cognitive Manufacturing

Principal – Cognitive Manufacturing

Manufacturing – Infosys Consulting | Cognitive Manufacturing Service Offering Principal – Cognitive Manufacturing Infosys Consulting, the management and technology consulting unit of Infosys Ltd, is seeking an experienced Principal to join its Manufacturing consulting practice and help grow its Cognitive Manufacturing service offering. This is an opportunity for a senior consulting leader to work with leading manufacturing companies as they modernize operations, improve business performance and apply advanced digital, data and AI capabilities across the manufacturing value chain.

The ideal candidate brings 12 or more years of experience in manufacturing, consulting or business transformation, with strong knowledge of industries such as Automotive, Aerospace, Defense, Industrial Products or other complex manufacturing environments. Successful candidates will understand manufacturing, distribution and supply chain processes across discrete, continuous, batch, make-to-stock, make-to-order and engineer-to-order operating models. They will be comfortable advising senior clients using Industry 4.0 maturity models and transformation frameworks, while helping clients progress toward Cognitive Manufacturing capabilities enabled by AI/ML, GenAI, IoT, digital thread, smart factory, connected operations, manufacturing data foundations and related technologies.

As a Principal, you will lead client engagements that help manufacturing companies define and execute transformation strategies. You will work directly with senior business and technology leaders to shape roadmaps, build business cases, guide delivery teams and create measurable outcomes across areas such as factory modernization, quality, supply chain, product industrialization, digital thread, AI-enabled operations and service performance. You will also play an important role in growing the practice by mentoring teams, contributing to thought leadership, supporting business development and helping bring new Cognitive Manufacturing offerings to market.

• Develop manufacturing transformation strategies and implementation roadmaps that help clients improve throughput, quality, cost, sustainability, resilience and speed.
• Apply Industry 4.0 maturity and capability frameworks to assess client readiness across strategy, process, operating model, smart factory, IT/OT integration, data, analytics, AI, digital thread, workforce adoption and governance, and translate findings into actionable transformation roadmaps.
• Lead assessments across the manufacturing value chain, including NPI, product industrialization, parts reuse, engineering change, BOM synchronization, production planning, factory execution, quality, maintenance, supplier collaboration, logistics and service feedback.
• Help clients redesign manufacturing, supply chain and distribution processes to improve agility, transparency, traceability and decision‑making.
• Identify opportunities to apply digital, data and AI capabilities to business priorities such as OEE, first‑pass yield, scrap reduction, downtime, engineering productivity, inventory, working capital, launch performance and service quality.
• Lead executive workshops and working sessions to align stakeholders on business priorities, future‑state capabilities and transformation roadmaps.
• Link Cognitive Manufacturing capabilities, digital thread, manufacturing data foundations, AI/ML, GenAI, IoT and smart factory technologies to practical business cases and measurable outcomes.

• Advise clients on how to connect product innovation, engineering, manufacturing, quality, supply chain, distribution and service into a more intelligent and…