Associate Vice President - Global Facilities Delivery - Parenteral

Eli Lilly and Company • Indianapolis, IN

24d • 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. Organization Overview: The Global Facilities Delivery (GFD) Organization, part of Corporate Engineering delivers new and renovated capital assets and technology around the world. Our mission is accomplished through a highly leveraged organization of design, construction and qualification contractors. Many of the assets delivered focus on medical innovation and delivering innovative solutions to patients. Some of the assets delivered will support an expansion in supply of existing medicines or making the supply chain more robust.

Requirements

• Bachelor of Science – Engineering or field related to project management, or equivalent experience
• 10 Years previous experience in engineering leadership roles including major capital project delivery experience (>$1B projects)

Nice To Haves

• Capital project management or leadership experience in pharma manufacturing facilities (specifically Parenteral facilities).
• Demonstrated ability to lead and manage both Lilly and Non-Lilly teams and to influence personnel and organizations without having direct authority.
• Demonstrated ability to achieve results through people.
• Facilitate issue resolution, anticipate changes, and implement safely with quality speed and value.
• Effective communication skills both written and verbal.
• Demonstrated ability to build and maintain effective partnerships with personnel at all levels, both Lilly and external partner organizations.
• Experience in most of the following disciplines: Automation, construction, construction quality, project controls, the engineering disciplines, safety, scheduling.
• Competency in a foreign language(s).
• Professional Engineer or equivalent technical certification.
• Past experience in working and/or living outside the U.S.
• Demonstrated willingness to embrace the concept of Operational Excellence and be an agent for change ).

Responsibilities

• Lead an organization responsible for the delivery of all major capital projects within our Parenteral network including greenfield and brownfield projects.
• Responsible for all phases of the project, from profiling, funding, design, construction and qualification in collaboration with internal and external partners.
• Responsible for all KPIs of project delivery including safety, cost and schedule ensuring appropriate project governance is in place to meet project objectives.
• Coordinate with other Corporate Engineering Leadership to optimize activities (some of whom supply key technical resources for projects or are facility investment ‘customers’ in their own right).
• Coordinate with Site Heads and their Engineering Leaders to ensure that the investment results match the functional requirements agreed upon with these project stakeholders.
• Work with his management to develop business plans that will enable the departments to achieve goals and objectives to include one and multiple year forecasting plans. The business plans will include resource, expense and capital projections.
• Form relationships with other manufacturing companies (primarily through industry organizations) to benchmark best practices, industry trends, technologies, and capabilities as well as to establish and oversee initiatives to increase the value received from capital investments.

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: Mid Level