Sr. Director- Parenteral and Device Manufacturing
- Employer
- Eli Lilly and Company
- Location
- Indianapolis, Indiana
- Start date
- Oct 23, 2024
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- Discipline
- Manufacturing & Production, Manufacturing/Mechanical
- Required Education
- Bachelors Degree
- Position Type
- Full time
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Job Details
At Lilly, we unite caring with discovery to make life better for people around the world. We are a global healthcare leader headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana. Our employees around the world work to discover and bring life-changing medicines to those who need them, improve the understanding and management of disease, and give back to our communities through philanthropy and volunteerism. We give our best effort to our work, and we put people first. We’re looking for people who are determined to make life better for people around the world.
At Lilly, we unite caring with discovery to make life better for people around the world. We are a global healthcare leader headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana. Our employees around the world work to discover and bring life-changing medicines to those who need them, improve the understanding and management of disease, and give back to our communities through philanthropy and volunteerism. We give our best effort to our work, and we put people first. We’re looking for people who are determined to make life better for people around the world.
Organization Overview:
At Lilly, we serve an extraordinary purpose. We make a difference for people around the globe by discovering, developing and delivering medicines that help them live longer, healthier, more active lives. Not only do we deliver breakthrough medications, but you also can count on us to develop creative solutions to support communities through philanthropy and volunteerism.
Within the Lilly manufacturing organization, the Parenteral Network is responsible for a rapidly growing global network of manufacturing sites that support the expanding portfolio of Lilly’s parenteral (injectable) products and devices.
Position Description:
The Sr Director - Parenteral and Devices Network Operations role is a critical role to ensure we continue to make progress towards our mission and our culture. This role will play a critical role in leading various strategic initiatives and ensuring the network is operating effectively.
Critical Skill sets required:
- Integrate functions and lead cross-functionally
- Demonstrate ability to identify strategic opportunities and turn strategy to execution
- Operate as Team Lilly
- Strong learning agility
- Drive execution and accountability
- Influence without authority
- Strong inclusive leader
- Manufacturing experience (ideally parenteral)
Strategic Processes and Projects
- Proactively assess strategic and capability gaps / opportunities across sites and partner with PDN LT members to drive improvement
- Ensure thorough and meaningful measurement and analytics on key questions to help drive the business and better serve our customers
- Support annual strategic planning and business plan processes, including ongoing prioritization of initiatives.
- Lead and manage special projects
- Anticipate and facilitate the resolution of issues that impact key project deliverables and facilitate understanding and resolution of issues
Drive Operational Excellence
- Lead and facilitate key project meetings and ensure follow up on actions
- Manage meeting agendas, pre-reads and follow ups
- Ensure appropriate governance in place to ensure safety, quality, agility and execution to drive most important work
- Monitor the progress on milestones and take action to escalate/remove barriers.
- Support sites to facilitate consistent processes and efficient planning. Drive operational process improvements, best practice sharing and cost efficiencies
Effective Communication
- Drive connectivity between sites, functions and networks to ensure alignment on strategic objectives
- Drive documentation and communication of key decisions, actions, and key modifications in time, budget, scope, and risk to key stakeholders
Basic Qualifications:
- Bachelors’ degree
- Minimum 8 years of manufacturing experience
Additional Skills/Preferences:
- Demonstrated ability to think strategically and solve problems
- Excellent communication and project management skills
- Ability to lead and influence others with or without authority
- Strong business acumen
- Ability to operate effectively in ambiguity
- Demonstrated ability to deliver on operational excellence
- Ability to work cross-functionally, cross-culturally, and with individuals at all levels of the organization.
- Deep understanding and experience in manufacturing, ideally in parenteral manufacturing
- Previous management experience leading a cross-functional team of people to deliver on objectives.
- Able to effectively facilitate team meetings and team leadership interactions.
- Drive effective and efficient team decision-making process.
Other information:
- Travel Percentage: 25 to 30%
Lilly is an EEO/Affirmative Action Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of age, race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, protected veteran status, disability or any other legally protected status.
Our employee resource groups (ERGs) offer strong support networks for their members and help our company develop talented individuals for future leadership roles. Our current groups include: Africa, Middle East, Central Asia Network, African American Network, Chinese Culture Network, Early Career Professionals, Japanese International Leadership Network (JILN), Lilly India Network, Organization of Latinos at Lilly, PRIDE (LGBTQ + Allies), Veterans Leadership Network, Women’s Network, Working and Living with Disabilities. Learn more about all of our groups.
#WeAreLilly
Eli Lilly and Company, Lilly USA, LLC and our wholly owned subsidiaries (collectively “Lilly”) are committed to help individuals with disabilities to participate in the workforce and ensure equal opportunity to compete for jobs. If you require an accommodation to submit a resume for positions at Lilly, please email Lilly Human Resources ( Lilly_Recruiting_Compliance@lists.lilly.com ) for further assistance. Please note This email address is intended for use only to request an accommodation as part of the application process. Any other correspondence will not receive a response.
Lilly is an EEO/Affirmative Action Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of age, race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, protected veteran status, disability or any other legally protected status.
Our employee resource groups (ERGs) offer strong support networks for their members and help our company develop talented individuals for future leadership roles. Our current groups include: Africa, Middle East, Central Asia Network, African American Network, Chinese Culture Network, Early Career Professionals, Japanese International Leadership Network (JILN), Lilly India Network, Organization of Latinos at Lilly, PRIDE (LGBTQ + Allies), Veterans Leadership Network, Women’s Network, Working and Living with Disabilities. Learn more about all of our groups.
#WeAreLilly
Company
Science has been our calling from the beginning. Colonel Eli Lilly founded the company in 1876 and charged employees to “take what you find here and make it better and better.” More than 147 years later, we remain committed to his vision through every aspect of our business and the people we serve, starting with discovering the best treatments for those who take our medicines and extending to health care professionals, employees and the communities in which we live. Moreover, you can also count on the team at Lilly to be incredibly civic-minded, supporting our communities through philanthropy, volunteerism, and a creative and innovative can-do spirit.
- Location
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893 S Delaware St
Indianapolis
Indiana
46285
United States
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