Associate Director – MQ Tech at Lilly

Eli Lilly and Company • Houston, TX

22h • $132,000 - $193,600 • Onsite

About The Position

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. This is an opportunity you don’t want to miss! Lilly is entering an exciting period of growth, and we are committed to delivering innovative medicines to patients around the world. Lilly is investing to create several new state-of-the-art manufacturing sites. These brand-new facilities will utilize the latest technology for API Manufacturing and will include several platforms including Peptides, Small Molecules, Bio Conjugates and Oligonucleotides Drug Substance Manufacturing. This is an exciting once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to help build and operate a new site. These new API sites will be built using the latest high-tech equipment, advanced highly integrated and automated manufacturing systems, and have a focus on minimizing the impact to our environment. What You’ll Be Doing: You will be part of Tech at Lilly MQ (Manufacturing and Quality), an organization that drives manufacturing operational excellence and productivity efforts through utilization of technology. Tech@Lilly MQ strives to enable the making of medicine “with safety first and quality always”. The Associate Director for MQ Tech at Lilly will be part of the IT Leadership team for the API Site. This role will report to the MQ IT Sr Director for Houston. This role will work hand by hand with both project and operational readiness activities for the facility.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in IT, Engineering or related field
• Minimum 7 years of experience in IT Leadership, with a proven track record of successfully overseeing multiple projects
• Experience in Pharma and GMP Manufacturing

Nice To Haves

• Experience leading IT groups in programs/projects in the pharmaceutical business.
• Previous experience in the startup of a new facility or clinical development manufacturing site.
• Proven leadership experience in managing cross-functional teams.
• Demonstrated experience managing large-scale, cross-functional projects and programs
• Strong understanding of MES, Data Integration and Analytics
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to assess risks, manage trade-offs, and make sound decisions.
• Excellent communication and leadership skills to interact with stakeholders at all levels of the organization
• Experience in Pharma and GMP Manufacturing
• Active participation in industry forums and standards organizations.

Responsibilities

• Ensure site operational readiness from IT perspective.
• Site start up and integration of IT systems including: Infrastructure Enterprise Resource Planning Warehouse management & logistics coordination Manufacturing Execution System Data historian, Real Time Floor Tracking Data Integration Data Analytics Data Integrity Laboratory information managements CAPA systems Access Security Building Monitoring Risk Management MES (Manufacturing Execution System)
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Ensure IT organization is functionally strong and operationally focus.
• Ensure solution focused organization.
• Provide prioritization and barrier removal.
• Provide oversight of technical activities within the group
• Effectively encourage knowledge sharing and education

Benefits

• Full-time equivalent employees also will be eligible for a company bonus (depending, in part, on company and individual performance).
• In addition, Lilly offers a comprehensive benefit program to eligible employees, including eligibility to participate in a company-sponsored 401(k); pension; vacation benefits; eligibility for medical, dental, vision and prescription drug benefits; flexible benefits (e.g., healthcare and/or dependent day care flexible spending accounts); life insurance and death benefits; certain time off and leave of absence benefits; and well-being benefits (e.g., employee assistance program, fitness benefits, and employee clubs and activities).

What This Job Offers

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