Manufacturing Lead

Warwick Consulting is a comprehensive medical device and life sciences consulting firm that simplifies complexity across the full product lifecycle, from concept and design through regulatory approval, commercialization, and post-market support. We partner with organizations ranging from early-stage innovators to global industry leaders, delivering tailored, results-driven solutions across engineering, quality systems, regulatory affairs, cybersecurity, risk management, human factors engineering, product quality, and FDA remediation.

By integrating deep industry expertise with innovative, AI-enabled solutions, including our VERA QMS Assurance platform, we help clients address complex challenges, strengthen compliance, improve operational efficiency, and accelerate innovation. Our experienced consultants provide flexible on-site, hybrid, and remote support, delivering the right expertise when and where it is needed most.

The Manufacturing Lead is responsible for coordinating and driving manufacturing readiness, production planning, supplier performance, manufacturing transfer, and lifecycle support for products used in regulated medical device applications.

This role combines manufacturing execution with project management to ensure successful delivery of product development, design transfer, verification and validation (V&V) support, production ramp-up, and sustaining activities. The Manufacturing Lead works across functional teams and external partners to deliver manufacturing commitments on schedule, within cost targets, and in compliance with applicable quality standards and regulatory requirements.

The role serves as a key interface between Product Management, Demand Planning, Supply Chain Management (SCM), Purchasing, Hardware and Software Engineering, Systems Engineering, Quality, Regulatory, Operations, Service, suppliers, original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), and external manufacturing partners. The position is responsible for aligning product demand with manufacturing capacity, material availability, supplier commitments, and production readiness.

The Manufacturing Lead drives cross-functional execution by establishing integrated plans, managing dependencies, monitoring milestones, identifying and mitigating risks, resolving operational constraints, and escalating issues that could affect product availability, project timelines, quality, or cost. The role requires strong project management, stakeholder engagement, analytical problem-solving, and supplier coordination skills, with an emphasis on achieving results through influence and collaboration rather than direct people management.

This position represents the manufacturing function throughout product development, commercialization, production, and lifecycle sustainment.

• Coordinate manufacturing readiness, production schedules, capacity, equipment, and material availability.
• Ensure manufacturing commitments align with product demand and delivery timelines.

• Manage project plans, milestones, dependencies, risks, and deliverables.
• Drive cross-functional alignment, issue resolution, and timely execution.

• Partner with Product Management to align product roadmaps, launches, and lifecycle changes.
• Coordinate with Demand Planning to align forecasts, inventory, capacity, and supply requirements.

• Coordinate external manufacturers, OEMs, and suppliers on production schedules, capacity, and delivery commitments.
• Resolve supplier constraints, material shortages, and manufacturing delays.