Associate Director - SAP Source to Pay

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 35,000 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.

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 39,000 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.

The ERP Services IT organization is actively looking for an IT supervisor with experience leading SAP projects and production support activities. The supervisor will lead a team of resources (direct and indirect) through SAP project delivery and support, management of budget, governance oversight, and vendor management. Tight collaboration, influence, and effective communication with key partners and stakeholders will be key to the success of the project. The SAP Source to Pay IT leader will need to influence at all levels of the organization and have a keen ability to work under pressure.

In addition to project leadership, the SAP Source to Pay IT leader will have admin responsibilities for the direct reports in the organization. This includes performance management, talent management, human resource planning, coaching, etc.

Regional and international travel will be required to meet with vendors, project resources, and Source to Pay stakeholders.

What You'll Be Doing:

This position will serve as first level IT leadership for the team that supports the Source to Pay businesses process and applications, including SAP, Ariba, and Aravo. This position will foster a strong partnership with Elil Lilly sourcing and purchasing business leadership to ensure we are managing our existing technology portfolio for source to pay while balancing resource needs for new strategic initiatives.

How You'll Succeed:

• Manage IT resources (develops staffing strategy and resource capacity, recruiting and hiring) and dollars (budgets) to meet those objectives.
• Proactively partner with each direct report to ensure development needs and career objectives are clearly expressed, documented and tracked.
• Communicate direction by prioritizing work within the IT portfolio of projects and services.
• Oversee robust project delivery practices and ensure proactive alignment with business partners.
• Develop IT area strategies and objectives and encourage the adoption of IT best practices or standardized processes.
• Ensure proactive sustainability and resilience for application across the portfolio while driving continuous improvement of service management processes.

What You Should Bring:

• Demonstrated strong customer interaction skills
• Demonstrated ability to think creatively about complex business problems and resolve these through new approaches
• Previous supervisory experience
• Previous experience in an application delivery or application services center of excellence as it relates to a single global instance of SAP ERP.
• Experience in Source to Pay operations (purchasing, sourcing, procurement ops)
• Experience in successfully delivering to quality standards within the Lilly Quality System
• Certification in ITIL processes

Your Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or related technical field
• Or High School Diploma/GED
• Minimum 5 years' experience in IT solution delivery, service management, or portfolio management
• Qualified candidates must be legally authorized to be employed in the United States. Lilly does not anticipate providing sponsorship for employment visa status (e.g., H-1B or TN status) for this employment position.

Additional Skills/Preferences:

• Demonstrated strong customer interaction skills
• Demonstrated ability to think creatively about complex business problems and resolve these through new approaches
• Previous supervisory experience
• Experience in Source to Pay operations (purchasing, sourcing, procurement ops)
• Experience in successfully delivering to quality standards within the Lilly Quality System
• Certification in ITIL processes
• Previous experience in an application delivery or application services center of excellence or central infrastructure support team

About the Organization:

Lilly IT builds and maintains capabilities using cutting edge technologies like most prominent tech companies. What differentiates Lilly IT is that we create new possibilities 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 Global Information and Services IT team is at the forefront of digitalization to enable and advance the entire company, with increased productivity and best-in-class Customer experiences. This team provides a robust and sustainable infrastructure of hardware, software and services that are critical to enable our global workforce and business to operate and transform. As leaders in technology and understanding business requirements and challenges, this team defines and leads the overall company technology strategy.

Travel percentage for this position:

0-10%

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