Senior Director - Quality Management System Health and Capability Leader

Eli Lilly and Company • Indianapolis, IN

2d • Hybrid

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. Role Summary: The Senior Director of Quality Management System Health and Capability leads the strategy and execution of the Quality Management System (QMS) across the enterprise. This role is responsible for driving maturity and ongoing support of the process owner network, ensuring continuous improvement and compliance throughout Lilly’s GxP operations. The Senior Director partners globally to implement solutions that achieve operational excellence and foster a strong culture of quality.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree - Preferred degree in business or life sciences
• Minimum 15 years of experience with 10 years in the pharmaceutical industry

Nice To Haves

• Expertise in cGxP’s across research and development and commercial manufacturing
• Demonstrated strategic thinking, learning agility, analytical skill, and complex analysis.
• Experience in leading strategic and business planning activities.
• Demonstrated leadership acumen, including project leadership.
• Proven ability to build and maintain collaborative relationships with stakeholders; navigate complex issues and find common ground.
• Strong collaboration, negotiation, problem solving, and interpersonal skills.
• Demonstrated ability to communicate and influence across a broad range of levels, functions, and stakeholders, including technical writing and executive-level materials.

Responsibilities

• Lead and facilitate the implementation of the QMS strategy, ensuring alignment with organizational goals and regulatory requirements.
• Drive substantial changes to organizational culture and employee engagement for the QMS to meet quality expectations.
• Support and mature the process owner network, ensuring ongoing development, engagement, and accountability for QMS processes.
• Oversee capacity planning for capabilities required to drive QMS strategies and initiatives, aligned with pipeline growth and commercial product expansion.
• Leverage the collection, analysis, and stewardship of quality data to proactively identify trends, risks, and opportunities for QMS improvement.
• Lead the assessment, development, and alignment to cross-functional transformational projects supporting continual improvement of global quality systems.
• Oversee delivery of prioritized projects, track key performance indicators, and report progress on process and system excellence.
• Facilitate rapid adoption of compliant approaches to support enterprise innovations, ensuring quality compliance for new modalities.
• Build effective partnerships and processes across organizations and functions.

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
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees