Health Safety Environment Advisor

Organization Overview:

The Global Health Safety and Environment (GHSE) department provides standards, performs audits, consults on operational compliance, advises on best practices, consults on cultural improvement efforts, conducts benchmarking, and communicates with HSE on every level. We blend high-quality counsel with decades of practical experience across a wide variety of industries.

Headquartered in the Lilly Corporate Center and providing support globally, we help business areas manage their HSE programs more effectively, meet critical compliance obligations in operations around the globe, and achieve improved control of workplace HSE aspects (hazards or risks).

Our mission is to engage all Lilly employees in the company's goal of achieving an injury-free workplace and ensuring that our global business operations contribute to a cleaner, safer environment.

Responsibilities:

This position supports Lilly’s External Partner HSE assessment program. They will support the External Partner program, leader, and business processes and provide technical HSE expertise to the Contract Manufacturing Organization (CMO) through assessment of Lilly’s global external partner network. This position also provides technical HSE support for all due diligence activities (i.e. mergers, acquisitions and divestitures).

Key Objectives/Deliverables

Management of the Lilly External Partner HSE risk and sustainability assessment program

• Contribute via auditing, reports and representing the External Partner Program.
• Responsible for the development of effective relationships with key stakeholders in External Manufacturing, Procurement, Business development, Manufacturing Strategy, Supply Chain, Legal and Global HSE to ensure an effective program and in particular that the scope of the assessment program reflects areas of greatest risk to Lilly.
• Contribute towards the development of HSE external partner management systems.
• Maintenance and development of tools and processes required for the effective management of the program (collaboration site, database, assessment tools and documents, program metrics).
• Support the Lilly external partner assessor forum ensuring close collaboration with LRL (Lilly Research Laboratories) and IDM (Indy Device Manufacturing) external partner programs.
• Responsible for the assessment of and reporting the status of external partner HSE risk to appropriate governance bodies.
• Acting as one of the HSE point of contacts with the Pharmaceutical Supply Chain Initiative (PSCI) including ownership of internal processes to promote and maintain PSCI objectives within Lilly.
• Responsible for integration of the HSE functional risk assessment process within Lilly’s Working with Third Parties program.

Provide expertise in the HSE assessment of external partners and due diligence activities

• Conducting assessments of external partners within the scope of the Lilly HSE external partner assessment program.
• Maintenance and development of assessment tools, processes and database required for the effective management of the program.
• Communicating with Lilly CMO management, HSE functional management and external partner management regarding outcomes from assessments and in particular identifying significant program gaps.
• Acting as a technical resource to Lilly External Partner management (manufacturing, procurement and business development) to assist, develop and maintain relationships with third parties and ensure HSE improvement programs are being implemented.
• Work with Corporate HSE and external partner management to identify specialist HSE support for external partners as required.
• Developing training materials and conducting training for HSE assessors and other stakeholders.
• Support the HSE due diligence process and tools for assessment of new acquisitions.
• Working with the Lilly legal group to assess, evaluate and communicate HSE risks associated with new acquisitions.

Basic Requirements:

• Bachelor of Science degree in science, engineering, or Health, Safety and Environmental related fields.
• At least 5 years of relevant HSE experience including deep technical knowledge in one or more HSE program areas (e.g. environmental, IH, process safety, general health and safety).
• Knowledge of auditing / assessment programs including previous auditing experience.

Additional Skills/Preferences:

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills. Fluent in English, other languages beneficial.
• Ability to influence customers or senior leaders without direct authority.
• Strong interpersonal, communication and presentation skills.
• Demonstrated ability to work across cultures and with global regulatory structures.
• Flexibility and learning agility, including ability to prioritize work load.
• Ability to spot issues and appropriately escalate to senior management.
• Demonstrated ability to work effectively in a corporate role across a complex organization to implement and communicate solutions at all levels of the organization.
• Demonstrated project management / planning capability.
• Experience with PSCI (Pharmaceutical Supply Chain Initiative auditing process).
• Auditing certification e.g. ISO14001, OHSAS18001, ISO45001, etc.
• Ability to work cross functionally and lead cross functional teams.
• Ability to translate complex or technical subjects into easy-to-understand commentary for a broad audience.
• Ability to travel on short notice.

Additional Information:

• This position reports to Senior Director – Corporate HSE. The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by people assigned to this classification. They are not intended to be an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties, and skills of personnel in the role.
• Travel 30-55%
• Shift information: Full Time
• Position location: Indianapolis – Lilly Corporate Center