Associate Director – LRL L&D Strategic Consultant

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 Associate Director – LRL L&D Strategic Site Consultant will report to the Lilly Research Laboratories Learning and Development (L&D) Director with dotted reporting line to the Site HR Director.

This position provides L&D strategic direction for the Lilly Medicines Foundry site. This position is responsible for defining, creating, managing, and maintaining the site learning strategy that drives and enhances organizational capabilities and ensures personnel qualification. The Associate Director is responsible for enhancing employees’ capabilities to meet site objectives, as well as ensuring that the processes for the development, review, approval, and delivery of training meet corporate and site quality standards. Additionally, the Associate Director will oversee performance consulting for business partners to assess critical business needs and recommend learning solutions that address capability and competency gaps. The role is responsible for cross-functional collaboration and consulting where appropriate with other Lilly learning leaders, key business partners, Lilly suppliers and other L&D partners to ensure alignment between the learning strategy, curriculum architecture and implementation of the learning portfolio. Also critical is serving as the interface with business and learning governance bodies as required to deliver an effective learning strategy, maintain training and procedure compliance, and enhance the overall learning experience.

To ensure state-of-the-art best training practices, this position will support other site L&D training initiatives, as required (such as, facilitation, onboarding).The Associate Director creates and maintains two-way communications with L&D leaders, peers, and functional management. This position manages the cost center budget. The LRL L&D strategic site consultant is responsible for ensuring Lilly Medicine Foundry employees are trained and capable in technical, leadership, and operational tasks.  

Responsibilities:

Learning and Performance Support

• Performance Consulting
  • Build and leverage relationships with leaders and business partners
  • Effectively partner with all levels of the business and influence strategic learning solutions
  • Ensure budget requirements are included in the business plan, when needed
  • Anticipate and resolve complex problems
• Strategy Development and Execution
  • Develop and execute comprehensive performance strategies to:
    • Ensure site employees are trained, qualified, and capable
    • Develop, maintain and improve business processes and metrics to ensure the training systems are in control and capable to meet customer and regulatory requirements.
    • Create controls/reports/structures to ensure that all employees and contract workers are qualified and trained to execute their roles
    • Interface with auditors, inspectors, regulators, or outside stakeholders on business issues as required and provide post-audit/inspection responses as needed
• Address short- and long-term large-scale solution