Sr. Director - Global Process Owner - Supplier Quality Management

Role Summary

Sr. Director - Global Process Owner - Supplier Quality Management

Responsibilities

• Establish and maintain the global quality system for Supplier (Third Party) Quality Management to drive standardization globally.
• Own the Global Standards, Processes, Practices, Trainings, and implementation tools and ensure they are designed according to regulatory, industry and company expectations.
• Provide governance, lead the implementations of improvement initiatives and foster a robust compliance mindset.
• Ensure processes are executed consistently across the organization and monitor signals to drive continuous improvement.
• Act as the leader and SME to ensure supporting IT applications and analytical tools are configured and maintained to support the business needs and facilitates accurate reporting and analytics.
• Define a common set of global effectiveness and efficiency metrics to drive end-to-end performance.
• Monitor performance metrics, report and provide insights to inform decision making to drive further improvements.
• Develop, lead, mentor and maintain a community of cross-functional SMEs to collaborate on proposed improvements and deepen the knowledge of the associated processes & tools.
• Actively collaborate with enterprise-wide teams on standardized global business processes.
• As the subject matter expert, ensure inspection readiness, directly interact with Health Authorities during inspections and draft responses to observations as needed.
• Actively engage in external organizations and industry organizations to monitor policy changes for regulatory / external environments and advocate / influence quality related policies and regulatory requirements related to supplier quality management.

Qualifications

• 10+ years‚Äô experience in the pharmaceutical or other regulated industry with demonstrated knowledge and application of applicable regulations and quality systems including leadership role or role of direct influence.
• Bachelor‚Äôs degree in sciences, engineering, or other healthcare-related field.

Additional Skills

• Direct experience in external party or supplier / vendor quality management in a regulated industry.
• Proven ability to work in a matrixed organization leading diverse teams and influencing areas not under direct control.
• Experience leading a major multi-site or global functions improvement initiative.
• Strong strategic thinking capability with a focus on the ability to execute strategic decisions while balancing conflicting priorities.
• Proficiency in addressing operational challenges through structured approaches and innovative solutions.
• Ability to drive process improvements and strategic decisions by analyzing and interpreting complex data.
• Demonstrated change agility in anticipating and leading others through change and ambiguity.
• Excellent teamwork, interpersonal, and communication skills, with the ability to communicate and collaborate at all levels through various formats.
• Expertise in developing scalable and standardized processes across global operations to improve efficiency and reduce complexity.
• Demonstrated influential leadership expertise and experience engaging with senior-level functional leads.
• Strong leadership capability to make and act on decisions while balancing speed, quality, and risk to deliver value-added business results.
• Strong capabilities in establishing governance structures and proactively addressing quality and regulatory risks.
• Demonstrated people management experience.
• Expertise in navigating and ensuring adherence to global regulatory standards and frameworks.
• Experience leading a major multisite improvement initiative or driving multisite standardization.
• Experience in eQMS systems.

Additional Information

• Available to travel (domestic and international) when required (ca. 10%).
• Fluent in English, additional languages are also recommended.
• Primary location is Lilly Corporate Center, Indianapolis, Indiana but consideration could be given for a location at existing global Lilly manufacturing site.