Associate Director - Execution Excellence

Eli Lilly and Company • Us, IN

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About The Position

The Execution Excellence Lead drives business planning, performance management, and process excellence across IBU Marketing and Medical Affairs. The role connects strategy to delivery by building integrated plans, tracking execution against commitments, managing budget and resource trade-offs, and coordinating across affiliates, therapeutic area teams, and global counterparts. It operates across Marketing, Medical, and Capabilities so workstreams plan, execute, and report consistently.

The role owns performance management routines, defines KPIs, tracks delivery against plans, and surfaces risks early. It drives standardized and simplified planning, governance, and reporting; leads integrated business planning aligned with global strategy, affiliate needs, and available resources; maintains execution tracking and leadership visibility into status, budget, and risk; and connects stakeholders across Marketing, Medical, affiliates, and global teams.

The position also oversees performance reporting and governance, improves shared processes and tools, coordinates cross-functional taskforces, consolidates operational and budget plans, tracks project and portfolio status, and manages selected complex cross-functional projects. It is expected to influence through collaboration rather than positional authority.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree required.
• At least 2 years of experience in business planning, performance management, or project/program management in a matrixed organization.
• Strong business fundamentals and a portfolio-level view across functions.
• Ability to lead cross-functional teams across functions, geographies, and cultures without positional authority.
• Strong interpersonal skills, including building shared vision and managing conflict across diverse stakeholders.
• Strong problem-solving and judgment, including anticipating systemic issues, diagnosing root causes, and taking and defending positions.
• Proficiency in project management tools and disciplines, including chartering, scope, timeline, budget, and communication planning.
• Strong organizational skills and ability to independently manage shifting priorities.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills and credibility at all levels.
• Strong AI skills.
• Experience influencing decisions in virtual, multi-geography environments.
• Experience facilitating workshops or forums that turn insights into actionable plans and a book of work.

Nice To Haves

• MBA or equivalent advanced certification.
• Experience in the pharmaceutical industry across Marketing/Commercial and Medical Affairs.
• Familiarity with Lean, Six Sigma, or similar methodologies.

Responsibilities

• Define the KPI and metrics framework for tracking Marketing and Medical execution against plan.
• Collect functional-team input and maintain a current, high-level view of initiative status across priority markets.
• Own budget and performance reporting, provide leadership with portfolio visibility, forecast risks, and escalate red flags early.
• Run governance forums and review cadences that ensure accountability for deliverables, timelines, and budgets.
• Own shared planning, governance, and execution-tracking processes across Marketing and Medical.
• Simplify and standardize processes and tools across functions, reducing duplication and administrative burden on affiliates and ICX.
• Capture and share best practices and lessons across markets and therapeutic areas, incorporating them into planning cycles, training, and guidance.
• Assess process maturity and recommend improvements to efficiency and execution quality.
• Coordinate Marketing, Medical Affairs, affiliates, and global functions as the primary point of contact for aligned execution.
• Anticipate and resolve issues, document decisions and key information, and lead taskforces and working groups with clear scope, ownership, and timelines.
• Build relationships with functional leaders, influence through collaboration, and onboard affiliates into shared planning and governance.
• Lead integrated business planning across IBU Marketing and Medical Affairs with global, regional, and affiliate teams, aligning strategy, priorities, and resources.
• Build a consolidated operational plan integrating Marketing and Medical inputs for leadership.
• Own budget planning by consolidating plans and forecasts, tracking actuals against plan, and recommending trade-offs and reallocations.
• Manage changes in scope, quality, cost, and timeline, and facilitate leadership review and approval of annual and in-year plans.
• Track project, program, and initiative status across the portfolio in real time using appropriate tools.
• Apply cost, timeline, scope, and risk disciplines consistently and keep documentation current and accessible.
• Manage selected complex cross-functional projects requiring dedicated coordination.
• Escalate and resolve issues affecting key deliverables in a timely, structured manner.

Benefits

• Company bonus, depending in part on company and individual performance.
• Eligibility to participate in a company-sponsored 401(k).
• Pension.
• Vacation benefits.
• Eligibility for medical, dental, vision, and prescription drug benefits.
• Flexible benefits, including healthcare and/or dependent day care flexible spending accounts.
• Life insurance and death benefits.
• Certain time off and leave of absence benefits.
• Well-being benefits, including an employee assistance program, fitness benefits, and employee clubs and activities.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director