Associate Director - Program PMO Lead

At Lilly, the work is demanding because patients are waiting. We unite caring with discovery to help make life better for people around the world, knowing that every decision, every detail, and every day matters. Headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana, our over 50,000 employees around the globe take on complex challenges to discover and deliver life-changing medicines, strengthen how health is understood and managed, and support the communities we serve.

This is hard, urgent, selfless work-but it's work worth doing. If you're driven by purpose and ready to bring your best to work that truly matters for patients, we invite you to join us.

** Position Brand Description*
* The Global Facilities Delivery (GFD) Organization, part of Manufacturing & Quality, delivers new and renovated capital assets around the world. Our mission is accomplished through a highly leveraged organization of project management, engineering, construction, and qualification contractors. Many of the assets delivered focus on medical innovation and delivering innovative solutions to patients. Some of the assets delivered will expand the supply of existing medicines or strengthen the supply chain.

The Program PMO Lead provides strategic oversight and governance for a single large-scale pharmaceutical capital program, ensuring alignment with organizational objectives, regulatory requirements, and industry best practices. The role is accountable for establishing and managing the program's Program Management Office (PMO) framework (standardized processes, reporting structures, performance metrics, etc.) across multiple project work streams including engineering, construction, validation, and quality.

This role applies GFD's enterprise project management standards, playbooks, and stage-gate processes at the program. Working through program workstream leads, project controls staff, and contracted project management resources, the role coordinates cross-functional teams, facilitates communication among stakeholders, and ensures timely decision-making so the program delivers within scope, budget, and schedule.

The role partners closely with the Global Portfolio Controls Office so that program cost, schedule, and forecast data reconcile with the wider portfolio. Success is defined by a program that runs to a consistent and well-understood process, leadership that has an accurate and timely view of progress, risk, and financial performance, and decisions that are made when they need to be.

** Key Responsibilities*
* ** PMO Framework, Standards & Methods*
* + Establish and maintain the program's PMO framework, including processes, procedures, templates, roles and responsibilities, and meeting and reporting cadence, across all program work streams.

+ Deploy GFD enterprise project management standards, playbooks, and stage-gate processes at the program level.

** Program Governance & Reporting*
* + Own program-level reporting; provide clear, concise updates to program and senior leadership with transparency on progress, risks, issues, and financial performance.

+ Prepare the program for stage-gate reviews, funding decisions, and governance forums, and track resulting actions and decisions to closure.

** Risk, Issue & Change Management*
* + Own the program risk and issue registers; drive identification, quantification, mitigation, and escalation on a defined cadence.

+ Operate program change control so that scope, cost, and schedule changes are assessed, approved, and baselined through a single disciplined process.

** Project Controls Interface*
* + Partner with the Global Portfolio Controls Office and program controls staff to ensure integrated cost and schedule performance measurement is in place, current, and trusted.

+ Ensure program cost, schedule, and forecast data reconciles to portfolio reporting and stands up to Finance review and audit.

** Cross-Functional Coordination & Decision Support*
* + Coordinate delivery across engineering, construction, commissioning and qualification, and quality work streams; surface interdependencies and constraints early.

+ Facilitate communication among program stakeholders and drive timely decision-making so the…