Sr. Director - API and Dry Products Network

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 can count on us to develop creative solutions to support communities through philanthropy and volunteerism.

Within the Lilly manufacturing organization, the active pharmaceutical ingredient and dry products 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 – Active Pharmaceutical Ingredient (API) and Dry Products Network Operations role is critical to ensure our manufacturing network can execute on major strategic objectives and improve overall operational efficiency. 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:

1. Integrate functions and lead cross-functionally
2. Demonstrate ability to identify strategic opportunities and turn strategy to execution
3. Operate as Team Lilly
4. Strong learning agility
5. Drive execution and accountability
6. Influence without authority
7. Strong inclusive leader
8. Manufacturing experience (ideally API or Dry Products)
9. Project management
10. Change management skills through major change agenda

Strategic Processes and Projects:

1. Proactively assess strategic and capability gaps/opportunities across sites and partner with PDN LT members to drive improvement
2. Ensure thorough and meaningful measurement and analytics on key questions to help drive the business and better serve our customers
3. Support annual strategic planning and business plan processes, including ongoing prioritization of initiatives
4. Lead and manage special projects
5. Anticipate and facilitate the resolution of issues that impact key project deliverables

Drive Operational Excellence:

1. Lead and facilitate key project meetings and ensure follow-up on actions
2. Manage meeting agendas, pre-reads and follow-ups
3. Ensure appropriate governance in place to ensure safety, quality, agility and execution to drive most important work
4. Monitor the progress on milestones and take action to escalate/remove barriers
5. Support sites to facilitate consistent processes and efficient planning

Effective Communication:

1. Drive connectivity between sites, functions and networks to ensure alignment on strategic objectives
2. Drive documentation and communication of key decisions, actions, and key modifications in time, budget, scope, and risk to key stakeholders

Basic Qualifications:

1. Bachelors’ degree
2. Minimum 8 years of manufacturing experience

Additional Skills/Preferences:

1. Demonstrated ability to think strategically and solve problems
2. Excellent communication and project management skills
3. Ability to lead and influence others with or without authority
4. Strong business acumen
5. Ability to operate effectively in ambiguity
6. Demonstrated ability to deliver on operational excellence
7. Ability to work cross-functionally, cross-culturally, and with individuals at all levels of the organization
8. Deep understanding and experience in manufacturing, ideally in parenteral manufacturing
9. Previous management experience leading a cross-functional team of people to deliver on objectives
10. Able to effectively facilitate team meetings and team leadership interactions
11. 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.