Sr. Director - New API Site Network Operations - Eli Lilly and Company

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Actual compensation will depend on a candidate’s education, experience, skills, and geographic location.  The anticipated wage for this position is

Position Description:

The Sr Director, New API Site Network Operations role is a critical position to ensure our manufacturing network can execute on major strategic objectives and improve the overall consistency and operational efficiency for how we are building capabilities across the new sites.  This role will have broad scope with impacts across multiple sites and geographies, and will have significant exposure to site, functional, and overall manufacturing and quality leadership.

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
• Experience working in the biopharma manufacturing space
• Project management
• Change management skills through major change agenda
• Building up of standards and processes

Strategic Processes and Projects

• Proactively assess strategic and capability gaps / opportunities across sites and partner with NAS 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 is 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

• Experience working in the biopharma manufacturing space

• 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.

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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.

Full-time equivalent employees also will be eligible for a company bonus (depending, in part, on company and individual performance). In addition, Lilly offers a comprehensive benefit program to eligible employees, including eligibility to participate in a company-sponsored 401(k); pension; vacation benefits; eligibility for medical, dental, vision and prescription drug benefits; flexible benefits (e.g., healthcare and/or dependent day care flexible spending accounts); life insurance and death benefits; certain time off and leave of absence benefits; and well-being benefits (e.g., employee assistance program, fitness benefits, and employee clubs and activities).Lilly reserves the right to amend, modify, or terminate its compensation and benefit programs in its sole discretion and Lilly’s compensation practices and guidelines will apply regarding the details of any promotion or transfer of Lilly employees.

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