Sr. Director - Parenteral Technical Services Stewardship

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For 140 years, Lilly has manufactured medicines that improve people’s lives around the world. We produce our medicines using some of the most sophisticated manufacturing technologies and rigorous quality standards. Lilly Manufacturing strives for excellence in its process, standards, procedures and behaviors to develop medicines with safety first and quality always.

Position Brand Description:

This position provides leadership for the Lilly Global Parenteral Technical Services/Manufacturing Science organization.  It assures that appropriate qualified resources and systems are in place to provide technical stewardship of existing processes across all sites in the network, internal and external.

Key Objectives / Deliverables:

• Responsible for maintaining a safe work environment, leading safety initiatives, and working safely and accountably for supporting all HSE Corporate and Site Goals

• Provide leadership to global molecule stewards supporting commercial products/technical projects

• Serve as initial point of contact and escalation for technical issues

• Performance management and development of staff, in partnership with Executive Director – Parenteral Technical Services and Associate Vice President – Parenteral Technical Services

• Assure that appropriately trained and qualified staff are in place to provide network level stewardship and execution of the Parenteral Technical Agenda

• Represent the Technical Services organization at the various governance bodies to be determined by Associate Vice President – Parenteral Technical Services

• Serve as facilitator of Parenteral Technical Network meetings

• Develop and utilize reward and recognition initiatives for staff

• Build relationships and influence manufacturing sites

Minimum Requirements:

• B.S. degree or higher in a science, engineering, or technical related field

• 15+ years of related pharmaceutical manufacturing experience/cGMP working environment

• 10+ years experience in parenteral manufacturing, specifically technical services-related roles

• Prior experience in technical leadership roles

Additional Preferences:

• Ability to prioritize efforts

• Effective written and oral communication skills

• Effective interpersonal skills

• Ability to maintain a safe work environment, working safely and accountably in support of all HSE Corporate and Site goals

Other Information:

• 8-hour days Monday through Friday

• Overtime will be required, as you will need to be available off-shift and respond to operational issues as needed

• Some travel will be required (<25%)

• This is NOT a remote position and on-site presence is required

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