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Lilly Sr. Director – IT Manufacturing & Quality in Charlotte, North Carolina
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.
This is an opportunity you don’t want to miss!
Lilly is entering an exciting period of growth, and we are committed to delivering innovative medicines to patients around the world.
What You’ll Be Doing:
The Sr. Director – IT Manufacturing & Quality will serve as the leader for the IT function across one of our manufacturing site's in the US. This role will have a dual reporting line to both the M&Q IT VP and the VP Site Head. You will serve as a member of the Site Leadership Team and provide IT site functional leadership.
How You’ll Succeed:
Site start up and integration of IT systems including:
Enterprise Resource Planning
Warehouse management & logistics coordination
Manufacturing Execution System
Biometric enrolment & authentication
Data historian, Real Time Floor Tracking
Data Integration, Analytics, and Integrity
Digital Plant
Laboratory information managements
CAPA systems
Access Security
Building Monitoring
Risk Management
Develop and implement site IT strategic and business plan
Benchmark on innovative solutions (external and internal to Lilly)
Dynamically adapt road map to site evolution/strategic directions, and new trends/issues
Partner cross functionally locally and globally to establish and implement site IT roadmap
Responsible for maintaining a safe work environment
Leading People
Ensure staffing to meet the site and functional agenda
Lead, coach, and develop members of the team
Establish a strong site culture based in Lilly values, expectations, and operational excellence standards
Support diversity, equity and inclusion in recruiting and development of team members
Lead recognition, pay and promotion decisions
Lead talent assessment and succession planning activities
Support site recruiting building IT capability
Lead IT Compliance
Provide leadership in the development and execution of cGMP and/or improvement plans within the IT function and in support of site cGMP improvement plans
Define and execute IT inspection readiness activities
Operational Excellence
Ensure IT organization is functionally strong and operationally centered
Ensure solution focused organization
Provide prioritization and barrier removal
Provide oversight of technical activities within the group
Effectively encourage knowledge sharing and education
What You Should Bring:
Regulatory compliance knowledge and experience (cGMP)
Effective people and team leadership skills
Ability to manage and contribute to multiple concurrent activities and adapt to changes in priorities
Ability to cross functionally collaborate
Excellent written and oral communication skills
Demonstrated creativity, analytical thinking, and the ability to troubleshoot and solve problems
Previous LEAN experience
Basic Requirements:
Bachelor's Degree in IT, Engineering, or related field
10+ years of IT leadership experience working in a regulated science-based industry.
Additional Information:
Role is Monday through Friday and based on-site. Must be flexible in providing support to accommodate other inputs (production schedules, shutdowns, etc.). Occasional extended hour and / or off-hour work may be required.
Position will be based out of the Concord, NC site with ability to travel to Indianapolis and other global Lilly sites as required
Optional Organization Overview
Lilly IT builds and maintains capabilities using cutting edge technologies like most prominent tech companies. What differentiates Lilly IT is that we redefine what’s possible through tech to advance our purpose – creating medicines that make life better for people around the world, like data driven drug discovery and connected clinical trials. We hire the best technology professionals from a variety of backgrounds, so they can bring an assortment of knowledge, skills, and diverse thinking to deliver innovative solutions in every area of our business.
The Manufacturing and Quality Tech team leverages technology and analytics to transform and scale manufacturing to the digital plant of the future and support manufacturing operational excellence and productivity. This team helps produce medicines using machine learning and robotic capabilities with some of the most sophisticated manufacturing technologies and rigorous quality standards.
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