Associate Vice President - Global Facilities Delivery

Eli Lilly and Company • Us, IN

10d • Onsite

About The Position

At Lilly, the work is demanding because patients are waiting. We unite caring with discovery to help make life better for people around the world, knowing that every decision, every detail, and every day matters. Headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana, our over 50,000 employees around the globe take on complex challenges to discover and deliver life-changing medicines, strengthen how health is understood and managed, and support the communities we serve. This is hard, urgent, selfless work—but it’s work worth doing. If you’re driven by purpose and ready to bring your best to work that truly matters for patients, we invite you to join us. The Global Facilities Delivery (GFD) Organization, delivers new and renovated capital assets and technology around the world. 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.
• 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 API 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 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 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

• company bonus (depending, in part, on company and individual performance)
• company-sponsored 401(k)
• pension
• vacation benefits
• 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: Director