Sr.. Director - Digital Innovation - Lilly Medicine Foundry

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.

Overview:

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 and Position Overview

Lilly recently announced a $4.5 billion investment to create the Lilly Medicine Foundry, a new center for advanced manufacturing and drug development. The first-ever facility of its kind, combining research and manufacturing in a single location, the Medicine Foundry will allow Lilly to further develop innovative solutions to optimize manufacturing processes and increase capacity for clinical trial medicines, while also reducing costs and environmental impact.

The Sr. Director Digital Innovation is responsible for creating the strategy and then implementing the digital plant systems and capabilities for the Lilly Medicine Foundry. This role will define the digital plant business needs and user requirements, ensuring that the end user requirements are well understood and incorporated into the design, and that the applications and systems used are appropriately configured and integrated to fulfill the business need.  The Sr. Director Digital Innovation will combine the knowledge of pharmaceutical operations with digital technology to deliver a digital plant solution to the Foundry operations. A significant part of the role involves working with local and global IT experts and system owners to understand digital system capabilities and system positioning, as well as close collaboration with Operations, QC, Engineering and QA to understand interdependencies between business processes and digital applications.  

This role will report to the Foundry Site Head and is a member of the Foundry Site Lead Team (FLT).  The FLT has collective responsibility to develop and implement the strategic direction, organizational capability and management of the site.  Primarily, the members of the team drive the site toward achieving long term business objectives; they continuously develop the business and the organization for the future bearing in mind corporate and LRL objectives and the continuously changing external environment; and they manage issues that span multiple teams in the organization and extend into the broader corporate and external context.

In the Project Delivery Phase and Startup Phase of the project (2025 To 2028), the FLT roles will be fluid and dynamic as we endeavor to support the project delivery, build a new organization, develop and implement the necessary systems and business processes required to support GMP operations and build the site culture. This will require significant collaboration, creativity and resilience as the Lilly Medicines Foundry goes from design, to start-up, and to steady-state operations.

Key Responsibilities:

• Translate the business needs into user requirements for all new digital technologies & solutions across the Foundry that will deliver an automated, paperless, fully integrated, data analytics driven operations and business processes.   
• Develop the standard workflows for how we will use digital technology within our business processes and operations.  
• Define strategies for operational offline and online shakedown and testing of digital solutions post-implementation by IT and Automation. Work with the relevant functions to develop test scope and ensure it is planned and executed appropriately.   
• Liaise with various business functions and IT to develop best training practices to ensure an efficient, effective, and timely knowledge transfer to the end users.   
• Support the change management, OCM and implementation of digital solutions at the site.   
• Develop the Digital Innovation Roadmap for the Foundry in partnership with IT and Automation.
• Progress the digital roadmap at the Foundry site,