Associate Director - Global Business Process Owner Warehouse - Eli Lilly and Company

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Organization Overview: 

The Global Supply Chain Excellence organization focuses on standardization of business processes by emphasizing on lean methodologies and master data management while interfacing with relevant key stakeholders including sites/networks, M&Q IT, and HR business partners.

Role Overview

The Associate Director Global Supply Chain – GPO Warehouse serves as the business process owners for Lilly’s global warehousing processes.  Responsibilities include defining and documenting global business processes, identifying, and driving improvements, governing execution of the business processes, ensuring the tools and organization are capable and supporting the capabilities in the organization through appropriate guidance and training.

Responsibilities:

This role is accountable for defining, maintaining, and sustaining the global warehouse process, which includes:

• Defining documenting the warehouse business process steps
• Designing the process flow, key success measures and interaction with other processes
• Implementing transformational or continuous improvement changes to the process
• Benchmarking the process amongst industry peers
• Handing over the process to global and local warehouse teams in the business
• Train users on the business process

Strategy

• Define global business processes for warehouse operations across all manufacturing networks (API, parenteral, and dry products) 
• Develop a strategic vision for the business process in line with overall business objectives
• Make recommendations for warehouse process development and improvement on behalf of the stakeholders.
• Make decisions to align processes, organizational roles, and technology

Process governance:

• Form a companywide strategic roadmap to improve warehouse process maturity.
• Align strategic roadmap with key stakeholders across functions, hierarchy and different parts of the business.
• Train users on business processes

Process Design:

• Serve as an expert and key team member in major process Global Supply Chain design changes.
• Document and map the global business process
• Capture and analyze business requirements and translate these into standardized business processes, including definitions, templates, data sources, technology roadmap, and roles and responsibilities.
• Development of key output and KPI requirements that support the warehouse process
• Enable process design through technology and analytics

Measurement and Continuous Improvement:

• Track benefits and improvement into the business.
• Channel continuous improvement ideas and select suitable ones to turn into projects.
• Ensure the warehouse review processes happen on time

Basic Requirements: 

• BS or MS degree in Materials Management, Engineering, Finance, Business Administration or related field.
• At least 5 years of manufacturing and/or supply chain experience with understanding of material flows, preferably in the pharmaceutical industry
• Strong Materials Movement business process knowledge
• Knowledge of systems required to store, manage and control materials through the manufacturing process including inbound, production and outbound operations.
• Automation and/or robotics experience

Additional Skills/Preferences:

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, as well as the ability to effectively communicate with technical and nontechnical audiences.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills.
• Good problem-solving and influencing skills.
• Ability to analyze project needs and balance competing interests, and to determine the resources needed to meet objectives.
• Use of business process modeling techniques, such as contextual inquiry, business narratives and value networking analysis.
• Project management skills to manage overall transformation or continuous improvement projects across multiple geographies.
• Ability to identify modifications to business practices to take full advantage of technology innovation.
• Use thought leadership to anticipate future needs and changes that might be required.
• Able to identify the impact of initiatives on business results to drive priorities.
• A certification in supply chain is desired

Additional Information:

• Work shift:  Full time, normal work shift
• Travel required (% of time) – <20%

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