Tech@Lilly Sr. Director – Lilly Kenosha County at 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.

Lilly is entering an exciting period of growth, and we are committed to delivering innovative medicines to patients around the world. We are actively expanding Lilly's global parenteral (injectable) product manufacturing network and support, for this mission we are preparing for the start-up of one of our new state of the art manufacturing site located in Pleasant Prairie in Wisconsin.  This facility will utilize the latest technology to increase the company's manufacturing capacity in parenteral (injectable) medications. This is an exciting once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to help operate a Lilly new site.  The LKC site will have latest high-tech equipment, advanced automated manufacturing systems, all of this while minimizing the impact to our environment. This is an opportunity you don’t want to miss!

The Tech@Lilly Sr. Director will serve as the leader for the IT function in the LKC site. This role will have a dual reporting line to both the Tech@Lilly IT Associate VP and the LKC Site Head.

Key Objectives/Deliverables:

IT Agenda

• Ensure site operational readiness from IT perspective.  This includes Enterprise Resource Planning, Warehouse management & logistics coordination, Manufacturing Execution System, Laboratory Management, Data Integration and Analytics, Data Integrity, etc.

Member of the Site Leadership Team and provide IT site functional leadership

• Develop and implement site IT strategic and business plan
• Benchmark on innovative solutions (external and internal to Lilly)
• Dynamically adapt road map to site evolution/strategic directions, and new trends/issues
• Partner cross functionally locally and globally to establish and implement site IT roadmap
• Responsible for maintaining a safe work environment

People

• Ensure staffing to meet the site and functional agenda
• Lead, coach, and develop members of the team
• Establish a strong site culture based in Lilly values, expectations, and operational excellence standards
• Support diversity, equity and inclusion in recruiting and development of team members
• Lead recognition, pay and promotion decisions
• Lead talent assessment and succession planning activities
• Support site recruiting building IT capability

Compliance

• Provide leadership in the development and execution of cGMP and/or improvement plans within the IT function and in support of site cGMP improvement plans
• Define and execute IT inspection readiness activities

Operational Excellence

• Ensure IT organization is functionally strong and operationally centred
• Ensure replication of standardize practices within the Parenteral network
• Ensure best practices across Lilly are quickly replicated
• Ensure solution focused organization
• Provide prioritization and barrier removal
• Provide oversight of technical activities within the group
• Effectively encourage knowledge sharing and education

Minimum Requirements:

• 10+ years IT leadership experience working in regulated science-based industry
• Regulatory compliance knowledge and experience (cGMP)
• Effective people and team leadership skills
• Ability to manage and contribute to multiple concurrent activities and adapt to changes in priorities
• Ability to cross functionally collaborate
• Excellent written and oral communication skills 
• Demonstrated creativity, analytical thinking, and the ability to troubleshoot and solve problems

Additional Preferences:

• Previous AGILE experience

Education Requirements:

• Bachelors Degree in IT, Engineering, or related field

Other Information: 

• Role is Monday through Friday and based on-site.  Must be flexible in providing support to accommodate other inputs (production schedules, shutdowns, etc.).  Occasional extended hour and / or off-hour work may be required.
• Position will be based in the Pleasant Prairie area in Wisconsin with ability to travel to Indianapolis and other global Lilly sites as required

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