Business Process Architect - MQ Tech at Lilly - Eli Lilly and Company

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.

This is a great opportunity for an experienced IT Business Process Architect with a focus on Global Supply Chain production planning systems.


The Manufacturing and Quality IT Team at Lilly is looking for a Business Process Architect (BPA) with experience in Global Supply Chain production planning with implementing, supporting, and maintaining Kinaxis RapidResponse/Maestro. Are you highly motivated individual contributor with great collaboration skills that thrives in a fast-paced environment?

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.

Lilly is entering an exciting period of growth, and we are committed to delivering innovative medicines to patients around the world. Lilly is investing around the world to create new state-of-the-art manufacturing sites and continue expanding our existing facilities to create capacity required to continue with our mission. The brand-new facilities will utilize the latest technology, advanced highly integrated and automated manufacturing systems, and have a focus on minimizing the impact to our environment. 

What You’ll Be Doing:

The primary focus of the Business Process Architect MQ Tech at Lilly is to provide integration between business resources and IDS, influencing the processes, tools and operating models. The role will support the implementation and maintenance of applications/solutions and will support customers by implementing value-driven solutions. As BPA, you will partner with business SMEs, our end-to-end supply chain orchestration software vendor, and Lilly’s service integrator on the design, configuration, and implementation of the NextGen production planning solution. You will leverage technical and business process knowledge to influence strategy and design decisions that advance program goals of harmonized, simplified processes and integration for advanced analytics and AI capabilities.

The role will be essential to the successful implementation and future maintenance of the Kinaxis Maestro solution and integration between Maestro and SAP S/4 Hanna IBP.

How You’ll Succeed:

• Collaborate with management and business leaders to align the business roadmap with operational decisions. 
• Collaborate with product owners and project managers to maintain a robust architectural framework across product lifecycles.
• Collaborate with business area leadership, IT Architects, and Enterprise IT architecture on cross-organizational issues.
• Assess organizational and financial impacts of proposed business process architecture solutions.
• Provide expert analysis, research, and design of technical solutions to enhance business capabilities.
• Research and strategize the implementation of new or alternative technologies to advance business goals and competitive positioning.
• Maintain awareness of current technology trends and applications within Supply Chain for the Pharma industry.
• Translate business and technical requirements into architectural blueprints to achieve business objectives, ensuring clarity and actionability.
• Provide business process consultation to application teams, ensuring alignment with the enterprise and solution architectures.
• Gather business requirements, analyze and transform to application requirements, perform fit-gap analysis.

• Promote process improvement and innovation to drive business process optimization.
• Adhere to corporate computer systems validation policies and procedures.

What You Should Bring:

• Must have experience with Kinaxis Advanced Planning tools.
• Experience implementing and maintaining Kinaxis Rapid Response/Maestro.
• Experience introducing innovation and/or digital capabilities to global supply chain.
• Must have PHARMA industry and Global Supply Chain experience.
• Strong understanding of broad business process in the production and demand planning space. 
• Basic understanding of Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) with demonstrated experience in computer system validations efforts.
• Excellent initiative and self-management skills as well as ability to lead teams, influence others and manage conflict. 
• Demonstrated ability to establish key relationships with those outside of the immediate business area. 
• Demonstrated ability to understand and influence integration points with other business areas, processes, functions. 
• Analytical and problem-solving skills to identify and resolve complex technical issues. 
• Adaptability and flexibility to work in a fast-paced, dynamic environment and manage multiple tasks simultaneously. 

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Business Administration, or related technical field.
OR
• High School Diploma/GED with 8-10 years of experience in Information Technology and/or Global Supply Chain ERP roles, with at least 4 years working with Kinaxis and ERP production planning solutions
• Qualified candidates must be legally authorized to be employed in the United States. Lilly does not anticipate providing sponsorship for employment visa status (e.g., H-1B or TN status) for this employment position.

About the Organization:

Lilly IT builds and maintains capabilities using cutting edge technologies like most prominent tech companies. What differentiates Lilly IT is that we create new possibilities through tech to advance our purpose – creating medicines that make life better for people around the world, like data driven drug discovery and connected clinical trials. We hire the best technology professionals from a variety of backgrounds, so they can bring an assortment of knowledge, skills, and diverse thinking to deliver innovative solutions in every area of our business.

The Global Information and Services IT team is at the forefront of digitalization to enable and advance the entire company, with increased productivity and best-in-class Customer experiences. This team provides a robust and sustainable infrastructure of hardware, software and services that are critical to enable our global workforce and business to operate and transform. As leaders in technology and understanding business requirements and challenges, this team defines and leads the overall company technology strategy.

Will this position support sponsorship?:

No

Travel percentage for this position:

10-25%

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