Associate Vice President - Global Facilities Delivery - Parenteral

Role Summary

The Associate Vice President will lead the Global Facilities Delivery organization responsible for delivering major capital projects within Lilly's Parenteral network, including greenfield and brownfield projects. They will oversee all project phases from profiling and funding through design, construction and qualification, ensure safety, cost and schedule KPIs, and align investments with functional requirements and business plans. They will collaborate with internal and external partners and benchmark industry practices.

Responsibilities

• Lead an organization responsible for the delivery of all major capital projects within our Parenteral network including greenfield and brownfield projects.
• Responsible for all phases of the project, from profiling, funding, design, construction and qualification in collaboration with internal and external partners.
• Responsible for all KPIs of project delivery including safety, cost and schedule ensuring appropriate project governance is in place to meet project objectives.
• Coordinate with other Corporate Engineering Leadership to optimize activities (some of whom supply key technical resources for projects or are facility investment ‘customers’ in their own right).
• Coordinate with Site Heads and their Engineering Leaders to ensure that the investment results match the functional requirements agreed upon with these project stakeholders.
• Work with his management to develop business plans that will enable the departments to achieve goals and objectives to include one and multiple year forecasting plans. The business plans will include resource, expense and capital projections.
• Form relationships with other manufacturing companies (primarily through industry organizations) to benchmark best practices, industry trends, technologies, and capabilities as well as to establish and oversee initiatives to increase the value received from capital investments.

Qualifications

• Required: Bachelor of Science – Engineering or field related to project management, or equivalent experience
• Required: 10 Years previous experience in engineering leadership roles including major capital project delivery experience (>$1B projects)
• Preferred: Capital project management or leadership experience in pharma manufacturing facilities (specifically Parenteral facilities).
• Preferred: Demonstrated ability to lead and manage both Lilly and Non-Lilly teams and to influence personnel and organizations without having direct authority.
• Preferred: Demonstrated ability to achieve results through people.
• Preferred: Facilitate issue resolution, anticipate changes, and implement safely with quality speed and value.
• Preferred: Effective communication skills both written and verbal.
• Preferred: Demonstrated ability to build and maintain effective partnerships with personnel at all levels, both Lilly and external partner organizations.
• Preferred: Experience in most of the following disciplines: Automation, construction, construction quality, project controls, the engineering disciplines, safety, scheduling.
• Preferred: Competency in a foreign language(s).
• Preferred: Professional Engineer or equivalent technical certification.
• Preferred: Past experience in working and/or living outside the U.S.
• Preferred: Demonstrated willingness to embrace the concept of Operational Excellence and be an agent for change.

Additional Requirements

• Travel required (30%-50%)
• Position must be located in Indianapolis, IN (not remote)