Sr Director – Parenteral Operations at Eli Lilly and Company

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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.

The Parenteral Operations Director is responsible to provide leadership to Parenteral Operations and cross functional leadership to the Parenteral Flow Team for the Lilly Concord site.  The Operations Director will establish the operational organization and readiness agenda in alignment with the business and strategic plan.  The Operations Sr Director is a key member of the Concord Site Lead Team ensuring safety, quality, and operational excellence.

Responsibilities:

• Provide Health, Safety and Environmental (HSE) and Quality leadership for the Parenteral operational and flow team.

• Support Site Leadership to build a diverse and capable site organization based in engineering first principles and operational excellence.  Talent management, development, and retention within the Concord organization (and beyond).

• Provide operational technical leadership and develop objectives to deliver Business and Strategic Plan Goals as it relates to safety, quality, and equipment/process effectiveness and efficiency.

• Represent operational capabilities beyond the Lilly Concord site (e.g. other Lilly sites and global functional groups).

• Partner with Technical Services, Quality and Engineering leadership to deliver operational results.

• Actively engage team and deliver significant capital and technological projects.

• Deliver equipment, lines, and supporting systems through user requirements, design, build, verification, qualification, validation, and subsequent operation.

• Develop local processes and procedures for the operational function.

• Ensure practice matches procedure.

• Ensure the functions are aligned and driven to meet production throughput goals including daily operation of the manufacturing lines, deviation and change management, variability reduction, and equipment/system reliability.

• Champion continuous improvement.

• Develop and maintain metrics to measure performance against business objectives and make necessary changes to improve performance.

• Participate in the development and implementation of strategies associated with the area sponsoring or supporting the following initiatives: Continuous Improvement, Root Cause Analysis (RCA), etc.

• This role has direct interaction with Regulatory Agencies during site inspections.

• Understand and influence the manufacturing control strategy for parenteral formulation and filling

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Engineering, a Life Science, or Business/Operations

• At least 10 years of experience at a pharmaceutical manufacturing site

• At least 5 years previous management or leadership experience including leading or working effectively with a cross functional group

Additional Skills/Preferences:

• Front line experience in parenteral drug product operations

• Solid understanding of basic requirements of regulatory agencies

• Previous facility or area start up experience

• Previous experience in operations and engineering

• Previous experience with highly automated equipment

• Previous experience with combination products, device assembly, pharmaceutical packaging, drug product formulation and filling in aseptic environment

• Previous equipment qualification and process validation experience

• Previous experience with Manufacturing Execution Systems and electronic batch release.

• Previous experience with deviation and change management systems.

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