Sr Director - Tech at Lilly Manufacturing & Quality

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 on the cusp of a transformative expansion, investing over $15 billion in cutting‑edge manufacturing facilities worldwide. We’re on a mission to revolutionize patient care with groundbreaking medicines. Don’t miss your chance to be a part of this exhilarating journey!

As the MQ Tech at Lilly Sr. Director at our new Site (Houston, TX or Richmond, VA), you’ll spearhead the IT landscape, reporting to both the M Q IT VP and the Manufacturing Associated VP Site Head. Your leadership will be instrumental in shaping the Digital agenda and transformation for these facilities. This is an exciting once‑in‑a‑lifetime opportunity to help build and operate a new site.

Lilly’s new sites will be built using the latest high‑tech equipment, sophisticated highly integrated and automated manufacturing systems.

• Deep knowledge of regulatory compliance (cGMP).
• Proven leadership prowess and team‑building excellence.
• Agile management of simultaneous projects, with a knack for adapting to shifting priorities.
• Collaborative spirit with cross‑functional teams.
• Exceptional communication skills, both written and verbal.
• A creative and analytical mindset, equipped to resolve complex issues.
• Deep technical knowledge on pharmaceutical manufacturing and IT/OT footprint to support the site.
• Demonstrated creativity, analytical thinking, and the ability to troubleshoot and solve problems.

Ensure site operational readiness from IT perspective. Site start‑up and integration of IT systems including:

• Infrastructure
• Warehouse management & logistics
• Data historian, Real Time Floor Tracking
• Digital Plant
• Laboratory information management
• 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.
• Lead recognition, pay and promotion decisions.
• Lead talent assessment and succession planning activities.
• Support site recruiting building IT capability.

• Ensure IT organization is functionally strong and operationally centred.
• Ensure solution focused organization.
• Provide prioritization and barrier removal.
• Provide oversight of technical activities within the group.
• Effectively encourage knowledge sharing and education.

• A Bachelor’s Degree in IT, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field.
• 10+ years of leadership in Pharma IT, with a focus on manufacturing IT/OT leadership experience.

• 10+ years of experience with MES system implementations, Data Integration and Advance Analytics.
• Flexibility to localize in any part of US.
• Position will be based at one of our API manufacturing sites with ability to travel to other US and global Lilly sites as required and up to 50% of the time.

• Role is Monday through Friday and based on‑site. Must be flexible in providing support to accommodate other inputs (production schedules, shutdowns, etc.). Occasional extended hour and/or off‑hour work may be required.
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