Sr. Director, Parenteral Engineering

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.

The Engineering Sr. Director- Parenteral Engineering role is a critical role to ensure we continue to make progress towards our mission and our culture.  This role will play a critical role in leading various strategic initiatives and ensuring the network is operating effectively.

Strategic Processes and Projects

• Proactively assess strategic and capability gaps / opportunities across sites and partner with PDN LT members to drive improvement

• Ensure thorough and meaningful measurement and analytics on key questions to help drive the business and better serve our customers

• Support annual strategic planning and business plan processes, including ongoing prioritization of initiatives.

• Lead and manage special projects

• Anticipate and facilitate the resolution of issues that impact key project deliverables and facilitate understanding and resolution of issues

Drive Operational Excellence

• Lead and facilitate key project meetings and ensure follow up on actions

• Manage meeting agendas, pre-reads and follow ups

• Ensure appropriate governance in place to ensure safety, quality, agility and execution to drive most important work

• Monitor the progress on milestones and take action to escalate/remove barriers.

• Support sites to facilitate consistent processes and efficient planning.  Drive operational process improvements, best practice sharing and cost efficiencies

Effective Communication

• Drive connectivity between sites, functions and networks to ensure alignment of strategic objectives

• Drive documentation and communication of key decisions, actions, and key modifications in time, budget, scope, and risk to key stakeholders

Requirements (Education, Experience, Training):

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering

• 8+ Engineering experience in a parenteral manufacturing site

• Prior management or leadership experience including leading or working effectively with a cross functional group

• Excellent interpersonal, written, and oral communication skills

• Strong technical aptitude and ability to train and mentor others

• Ability to handle multiple competing priorities

Preferred attributes but not required:

• Solid understanding of basic requirements of regulatory agencies

• Previous facility or area start up experience

• Previous experience in 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 Automated Storage and Retrieval System (ASRS) Warehouses or AGVs

• Previous experience with deviation and change management systems including Trackwise

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