Director, Parenteral Sterility Assurance

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Lilly is entering an exciting period of growth, and we are committed to delivering innovative medicines to patients around the world. Lilly is working to build a stronger Sterility Assurance function and capability to provide increased technical capacity across the network.

The purpose of this position is to provide oversight and drive / maintain harmonization of technical programs that govern implementation and execution of Sterility Assurance control strategies across the Lilly Parenteral Network. This position also influences peers within Lilly globally and at the site level, as well as external to Lilly, to ensure strategies are in-line with technical, quality and regulatory guidance, current expectations and business needs.

This role also aids and enables building technical capability at Lilly sites to ensure the vital capabilities are developed and in place to meet business objectives. Finally, this role provides ad‑hoc technical support to Lilly PR&D, external contract manufacturing, and non‑sterile drug substance (API) manufacturing.

• Assess differences in current sterility assurance programs across the sites and drive harmonization
• Work closely with site and multi‑functional SMEs to drive cohesion. Ensure control strategies are robust, consistent with regulatory and compliance expectations, and are continuously improved
• Ensure control strategies are robust, consistent with regulatory and compliance expectations, and are continuously improved
• Assume SME leadership role for a specific topic area within Sterility Assurance across the network, including harmonization of aspects of the topic area and facilitation of the knowledge across the network
• Represent TS/MS on network Science Lead Team and other appropriate governance forums. Ensure that Sterility Assurance programs and similar topics are frequently presented to network team in order to align across sites. Ensure that learnings and best practices are shared across sites: set‑up appropriate forums in order to achieve this and present case studies to site SMEs
• Provide mentoring leadership to site SMEs to help build continue to build capability, particularly at the newer sites or where deep technical expertise is lacking
• Building, maintaining, and growing capability across the organization in the sterility assurance space
• Provide technical support to new sites/ filling lines during design and start‑up activities to ensure sterility assurance programs and process/ product requirements are supported at these sites, particularly while the sites are in early stages of building capability
• Provide technical support for significant sterility assurance investigations to help identify root cause and implement appropriate corrective actions. Share best practices / learnings / CAPAs across the other sites
• Benchmark industry trends and emerging regulatory guidance / requirements in the field through building an extensive peer network and attendance at relevant industry and regulatory meetings and advocacy groups. Advance Lilly agenda in the field. Represent Lilly on relevant external bodies related to Sterility Assurance; be influential in terms of representing Lilly’s position on technical/ regulatory positions papers and guidance. Assess new technologies to ensure Lilly stays current with new trends and technologies and share with the network with the goal of staying current with industry best practice
• Work with PR&D on new technology / platform development and implementation for pipeline products. Influence the agenda within PR&D to ensure the needs of Manufacturing are met, and the control…