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Jean-Baptiste Pelletier

Senior Partner, Lyon

Jean-Baptiste is one of the global leaders of the Operations Practice, focusing on pharma and process industries. He also chairs McKinsey Transformation and Orphoz in France.

About Jean-Baptiste

A senior partner at McKinsey, Jean-Baptiste advises large international groups and midsize companies on the design and implementation of integrated transformations aimed at delivering significant and sustainable performance improvements.

He works primarily with companies across the process industries, particularly in the pharmaceutical, chemical, and food sectors. He also chairs McKinsey Transformation and Orphoz in France.

Previously, Jean-Baptiste led McKinsey’s Operations Practice for the pharmaceutical industry globally for five years. He also led McKinsey’s Lyon office for eight years, accelerating its growth and expanding the team to 80 professionals.

Before joining McKinsey, he spent five years in operational management roles in industry. Jean-Baptiste Pelletier is a graduate of MINES ParisTech.

PUBLISHED WORK

“Shaping the future of India’s pharmaceutical operations,” McKinsey & Company, November 2025

“Human–machine harmonization to upgrade biopharma production,” McKinsey & Company, May 2025

“Driving sustainable, enterprise-wide performance acceleration,” McKinsey & Company, May 2022

“Transformer les opérations de l’industrie agroalimentaire française pour renouer avec une croissance rentable et durable,” [Transform the operations of the French agrifood industry to return to profitable and sustainable growth], McKinsey & Company, August 2021

“The hidden value of improved capital-expenditure management in pharma,” McKinsey & Company, August 2019

“Replicating success: Scaling up quality transformation across a network,” McKinsey & Company, August 2015

EDUCATION

Mines ParisTech
MS, engineering