Associate Director – Global Records Information Management

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 40,000+ 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.

Our commitment to excellence drives everything we do.

As an Associate Director supporting our Global Records and Information Management (RIM) team, you will work with a team of experienced professionals to help clients optimize information governance/records and information management practices and associated business operations including M&A RIM activities. You will contribute directly to delivering first class services to our clients, and your support of the engagement lifecycle will include solution design, service delivery, and directly leading junior practitioners.

This role works closely with Lilly Legal, partner vendors, and the IT organization on various related topics. To accomplish this purpose, it is vital to develop collegial and mutually productive relationships across a multitude of Lilly (and partner company) components.

• Lead delivery of multiple simultaneous large enterprise-wide projects
• Provide Technical SME support and consultation across Records Management domains (i.e. retention schedule, impact assessment, training, electronic records management, etc.)
• Lead engagement planning, budgeting, and economics, including development of cost models and financial plans and support leadership teams across key focus areas
• Develop and lead strategic solutioning across RIM initiatives
• Be responsible for day-to-day interactions with internal clients and Lilly teams
• Display breadth and depth of knowledge regarding functional and technical issues
• Facilitate consensus of proposed solutions from senior client collaborators
• Establish, negotiate, lead, and facilitate strategic client and vendor relationships
• Perform Corporate RIM Due Diligence on potential acquisitions and actively engage with Business Development teams to drive key outcomes
• Lead sell-side deals and any records separation activities
• Lead post-close activities including issuing retention holds, acting as lead for data retention activities of acquired employees, and other activities
• Regularly maintain the Global Records Retention Schedule (GRRS) as well as perform annual review and/or revision of GRRS
• Perform regular records clean up using the Lilly Records Management (LRM) system
• Act as a human-in-the-loop for any AI model development (i.e. review AI model outputs, refine model’s logic)

We are seeking a strategic information governance professional who can demonstrate deep expertise to address sophisticated challenges. This specialist will be in a position to make a significant impact at Lilly and help drive strategic change.

• Expertise: 8 to 10 years of relevant industry or consulting experience, including 5+ years of demonstrated experience leading and managing high performing teams and 5+ years of project management experience. Experience and understanding of sophisticated Records and Information Management strategies, tools and technologies (ex. information governance, data governance, records management, data/content management, metadata and taxonomy management, data classification, records retention or disposition) is a must as well as a proven track record of process…