Associate Director - SAP & Supply Chain Systems

Eli Lilly • Lebanon, IN

110d • $122,250 - $179,300

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. Lilly is currently constructing an advanced manufacturing facility for production of API molecules located in Lebanon, IN (Lilly Lebanon API). This facility is Lilly's largest investment in manufacturing capacity and is intended to provide APIs for current and future products, including new modalities. This is a unique opportunity to be a part of the startup team for a greenfield manufacturing site, and the successful candidate will help to build the processes and facility to enable a successful startup into GMP manufacturing operations.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in information systems, Computer Science, Supply Chain or related discipline.
• Minimum of 5 years' experience in manufacturing, preferred in pharmaceutical or other regulated industries.
• Experience with integrated business process flows, driven by SAP applications, systems integration in a manufacturing facility.

Nice To Haves

• High performance in delivery of their work.
• Looks at better, simpler ways, takes initiative and will run proactively with actions.
• Demonstrated self-management, prioritization, and organizational skills.
• High learning agility and flexibility and ability to deal with ambiguity and uncertainty.
• Demonstrated ability to identify and prioritize problems, develop, and implement solutions.
• Demonstrated ability to address issues as they arise and act accordingly.
• Demonstrated ability to establish and maintain key relationships across all levels in the organization.
• Demonstrated ability to lead and motivate in a team environment.
• Demonstrated strong communication skills, written and oral in 1:1 and group situations.
• Demonstrated ability to be decisive and make well-informed decisions for the team's benefit.

Responsibilities

• Lead implementation of new core applications (e.g. SAP Hana and EWM) and functionality at our Next Generation API Manufacturing Plant.
• Work closely with business process owners, data specialists and IT application owners (both local and global) to ensure the power of core applications is fully utilized for Material Management.
• Act as SAP eWM Power user for Logistics Centre, interacting with IT Architects, MES architects, and Data Analytics architects.
• Support daily operations to ensure seamless interaction of core applications by being a senior member of the Materials Flow team.
• Own the knowledge management and learning plan to ensure the user and super user capability at the site for SAP and other core applications meets business needs.
• Design, implement and govern incident escalation process for SAP applications.
• Monitor systems performance and recommend enhancements to optimize system functionality.
• Work with IT groups like Global Services and Global Infrastructure to support delivery of infrastructure where required.
• Promote process improvement and innovation within the applications to drive business process optimization.
• Adhere to corporate computer systems validation policies and procedures.
• Be an advocate for supply chain efficiencies through digital systems that streamline how materials flow across the LP1 manufacturing site.
• Progress the digital roadmap at the LP1 site helping development strategies for better integration across systems (MES & SAP).
• Work closely with Automation, IT and global teams to troubleshoot issues and ensure smooth integration of SAP applications with site business processes and other digital applications and hardware which are interfaced with SAP and yard management.

Benefits

• 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.
• 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: Mid Level
• Industry: Chemical Manufacturing
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree