Associate Director - L&D Platform Leader

Job Position Overview

The Global Manufacturing and Quality Learning and Development (GMQLD) organization is dedicated to delivering learning solutions and strategies that empower Lilly's Manufacturing and Quality organizations to achieve our mission: making medicine with safety first and quality always. The Platform L&D Leader is the recognized internal expert in learning and capability development for their platform — driving excellence through a team of L&D professionals and serving as the critical connector between platform execution and the global Center of Excellence.

This role operates at the intersection of global strategy and platform-specific need — ensuring that learning priorities, governance frameworks, and compliance standards are consistently and effectively delivered across every site the platform serves. The Platform L&D Leader balances global direction with the on-the-ground realities of their platform and sites, ensuring audit and inspection readiness, workforce development, and capability-building are executed with precision at the local level.

• Build and lead a high-performing global team by setting a clear standard of excellence, holding accountability to outcomes with directness and care, and addressing performance gaps — and talent gaps — without hesitation.
• Bring high emotional intelligence to team leadership — reading individual motivators, team dynamics, and organizational pressure accurately to coach effectively, sustain cohesion through change, and create an environment where strong performers thrive.
• Translate strategic priorities into clear team direction and execution rhythm — removing blockers, maintaining momentum, and closing the gap between what leadership asks for and what the team delivers.
• Develop team members across craft, stakeholder influence, and leadership capacity — coaching individuals to frame problems well, bring solutions, and operate with increasing independence and confidence.
• Operate as a skilled problem-solver and credible cross-functional partner — navigating complex, matrixed relationships across platforms, sites, and senior leadership with substance, influence, and a clear line of sight to business outcomes.

• Serve as the primary L&D Leader across a platform, ensuring alignment with global L&D strategies, policies, and procedures while meeting local operational needs.
• Report to and partner with the global CoE, LA and LEPs to implement future-facing learning solutions that drive performance, compliance, and operational excellence.
• Ensure global governance frameworks are executed at the platform level, maintaining inspection and audit readiness in real time.
• Act as a champion for a modern learning culture, shifting away from site-based traditional document-based training toward interactive, digital, and experiential global, network and platform-based learning solutions.

• Support the team providing platform and site-specific L&D initiatives that enable compliance, manufacturing excellence, and employee development.
• Drive learning effectiveness measurement using real-time data and analytics to ensure programs deliver measurable business impact.
• Partner cross-functionally with stakeholders to embed a learning mindset across the site.
• Ensure audit and inspection readiness, proactively addressing training gaps and regulatory expectations.
• Advocate for technology-enabled learning, including AI, immersive simulations, digital academies and just-in-time learning solutions.

• Ensure implementation of the GMQLD strategy for measuring learning program effectiveness across Platform — including evaluation frameworks, assessment design, and business impact methodologies.

• Operate as a strategic partner to Senior Director, COE, global functional leadership, LAs, Site L&D Leads, Quality, Operations, HR, and Tech@Lilly — influencing decisions and driving alignment across a complex, matrixed global organization.
• Lead without authority across a global…