Project Controls Director, Global Facilities Delivery

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.

The Global Facilities Delivery (GFD) Organization, part of Corporate Engineering, delivers new and renovated capital assets around the world. Our mission is accomplished through a highly leveraged organization of design, construction and qualification contractors. Many of the assets delivered focus on manufacturing medical innovations and delivering innovative solutions to patients. Some of the assets delivered support an expansion in supply of existing medicines.

Project Control Management:
Develop and manage project controls teams to deliver large capital programs of at least $500MM USD or more that are business-critical in nature. These teams will consist of both Lilly and Non-Lilly professionals, working to safely achieve project objectives from front-end planning (conceptual design) in a Brownfield or Greenfield site through operational qualification (cradle to grave). Project objectives are defined as delivering asset capability or capacity with safety, cost, schedule, and quality assurance.

Serve as the independent lead for project controls to ensure compliance with standard processes, driving consistency. Manage and direct all aspects of project control on major capital projects including, establishing cost, schedule and resource plan baselines, managing resources, influencing good contract strategy, establishing change control and risk management, monitoring actual costs, auditing pay applications, contracts management, forecast and cashflows. Establish, train and lead project control teams to deliver business objectives.

Ensure proper application of Lilly finance policies on capital projects.

• Bachelor’s degree in a STEM field (Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics)
• 12+ years of project controls experience supporting large-scale industrial, manufacturing, pharmaceutical, energy, infrastructure, or capital construction projects.
• Demonstrated expertise in cost management, planning and scheduling, forecasting, change management, and project risk management.
• Willingness to relocate and/or travel domestically and internationally as required.

• Professional certification from a project control body such as RICS, AACE, or PMI.
• Proficiency with project management systems, specifically SAP, Oracle Unifier, Primavera P6, Safran Risk, etc.
• Advanced understanding in financial concepts and estimating, cost management theory, project change and risk management, project planning and scheduling, and work and cost breakdown structures.
• Capacity to lead through influence to achieve results.
• Ability to lead others through coaching.
• Capacity to think strategically, taking a long view at how to achieve objectives.
• Effective communication skills, both written and verbal.
• Self-disciplined, motivated, and able to work with limited supervision.
• Excellent problem-solving skills and innovative thinking.

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