Director, Drug Product - SMDD
Listed on 2026-09-09
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Engineering
Manufacturing Engineer, Process Engineer, Quality Engineering, Validation Engineer
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.
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 35,000 employees 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 are looking for people who are determined to make life better!
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 35,000 employees 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 are looking for people who are determined to make life better!
The Synthetic Molecule Design and Development (SMDD) department within Lilly Research Labs is involved in key activities for the advancement of small molecules, peptides, and oligonucleotides from early discovery phases to commercialization. Our scientists and engineers develop innovative technical and business solutions across a portfolio of projects using their deep technical expertise to accelerate testing of the clinical hypothesis and overall drug development.
Through recognizing the value of a hardworking, diverse, and inclusive workforce, SMDD delivers on these responsibilities and helps bring the next generation of life changing medicines to patients. Our team is looking for highly motivated and creative candidates who will work on the integration of early drug discovery, preclinical, and clinical activities with a focus on drug product design and development.
Our team is looking for candidates interested in further advancing formulation, manufacturing platform technologies and commercialization of solid drug products. The candidate will collaborate with other development scientists/engineer and manufacturing groups to provide technical leadership in the design and implementation of formulation and manufacturing technology platforms, with special focus on continuous manufacturing. The position presents possibilities to work across multiple subject areas, sites, and networks!
Top candidates for this position will be encouraged to:
- Apply experience in both batch and continuous solid drug product manufacturing unit operations to accelerate product development.
- Understand the interaction between raw material properties and processability as well as how unit operations can be used to improve manufacturability.
- Build comprehensive material and manufacturing process risk assessments that will guide formulation selection, development, and experimental work-plans.
- Improve product design through definition of drug product critical quality attributes (CQAs).
- Drive the implementation of new platforms such as continuous manufacturing, process analytical technologies (PAT), and modeling and simulation tools.
- Design robust and globally acceptable manufacturing process control strategies as well as partner with manufacturing teams to transfer those control strategies.
- Lead short and long-term development activities including prioritization of technical agendas and timelines.
- Partner with multi-functional teams such as Product Delivery, Project Management, Quality, Manufacturing, and Regulatory to execute and deliver…
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