Execution Lead. Associate Director-IT
Job Description
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.
Responsibilities:
Execution Leader is a key role within the Business Development organization within IDS.
Basic Qualifications:
Additional Skills:
Personal Considerations:
Developing others - strives to improve the skills of team members or others by providing clear, behaviourally specific performance feedback, effective coaching and mentoring, inclusion, and development experiences and opportunities.
Directing others/holding people accountable - develops and issues effective strategies and interpersonal styles and uses the power of the leadership position to set expectations for others, enforce rules, confront others about problems, and tell others what they must do toward the accomplishment of identified objectives and goals.
Empowerment - empowers individuals and groups by sharing responsibility so that they have a deep sense of commitment and ownership, participate and contribute at high levels, are creative and innovative, take reasonable risks and are willing to be held accountable, and demonstrate leadership.
Influence - uses appropriate interpersonal styles and methods and logical arguments to convince others to accept an idea, plan, activity, or product.
Team leadership - be able to develop cooperation and teamwork while leading a group of people, working solutions and tracking risk. Influence the direction of the team.
Flexibility - be able to work with team members from multiple locations, geographies, cultures, and companies.
Interpersonal understanding/sensitivity - acts in a way that indicates understanding and accurate interpretation of others' concerns, motives, and feelings; recognizes strengths and limitations of others.
Oral communication/honest and open communication - demonstrates the ability to effectively transfer thoughts and express ideas through speaking in individual or group situations.
Teamwork and cooperation - able to develop cooperation and collaborative work efforts toward solutions which generally benefit all involved parties.
Adaptability/flexibility - adapts easily to change, sees the merits of differing positions, and adapts own positions and strategies in response to new information or changes in a situation.
Personal growth/attention to learning and development - desires to improve and develop self; sets own development challenges and volunteers to learn.
Self-control/maturity - maintains stable performance and emotions when faced with opposition, pressure, and/or stressful conditions.
Initiative - evaluates, selects, and acts on various methods and strategies for solving problems and meeting objectives before being directed or forced by events; self-directed rather than passively complying with instructions or work orders.
Planning and organizing/project management - establishes a systematic course of action for self or others to assure accomplishment of a specific objective.
Analytical thinking/troubleshooting/information seeking - scans own knowledge and experience base and calls on other references and resources as necessary, building a logical approach to solve problems or manage the situation at hand. Determines when to elevate or delegate work/issues/concerns.
Eli Lilly and Company, Lilly USA, LLC and our wholly owned subsidiaries (collectively "Lilly") are committed to help individuals with disabilities to participate in the workforce and ensure equal opportunity to compete for jobs. If you require an accommodation to submit a resume for positions at Lilly, please email Lilly Human Resources ( [email protected] ) for further assistance. Please note This email address is intended for use only to request an accommodation as part of the application process. Any other correspondence will not receive a response.
Lilly is an EEO/Affirmative Action Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of age, race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, protected veteran status, disability or any other legally protected status.
Our employee resource groups (ERGs) offer strong support networks for their members and help our company develop talented individuals for future leadership roles. Our current groups include: Africa, Middle East, Central Asia Network, African American Network, Chinese Culture Network, Early Career Professionals, Japanese International Leadership Network (JILN), Lilly India Network, Organization of Latinos at Lilly, PRIDE (LGBTQ + Allies), Veterans Leadership Network, Women's Network, Working and Living with Disabilities. Learn more about all of our groups.
As a condition of employment with Eli Lilly and Company and its subsidiaries in the United States and Puerto Rico, you must be fully COVID-19 vaccinated and provide proof of vaccination satisfactory to the company (subject to applicable law).
#WeAreLilly
Responsibilities:
Execution Leader is a key role within the Business Development organization within IDS.
- Lead the start-up, planning and execution for high level IT projects with a focus on Acquisitions and Divestitures.
- Lead the IT start-up, planning and execution of new sites including Manufacturing and Labs.
- Oversee project staffing, progress, risks, escalations, and change management
- Typical projects may include company-wide IT new service implementations, more focused technical releases, acquisitions, mergers or divestitures, but generally involve coordination of 10-15 different workflows per project.
- Will be responsible for multiple simultaneous projects, the number of which depends on the size and scope of each (typically varies between 4-7).
- Ensure project status and risks are appropriately communicated to all relevant audiences, including users, key stakeholders, customers, Alliance partners, team members, business and IT partners and management, etc.
- Proactively leverage resources to obtain a basic but solid understanding of all IT areas to enable effective leadership of technical project resources. Topics include networking, telecom, Voice, Information Security, domain transfers, servers (physical and virtual), laptops, mobile devices, physical security systems, virtual computing, printers, AV, Identity Management, enterprise and scientific software, etc.
- Oversee and work with the PMs assigned to the projects to ensure all key target dates are met, dependencies between workflows/teams are coordinated, appropriate tasks are planned, tracked, and reported accurately.
- Many project workflows and tasks involve working in an "interim" space, where standard processes are not well-defined or applied. This role leverages contacts and management to appropriately navigate these "gray areas", ensuring feasible, yet compliant solutions.
- Develop a large array of partnerships across many business functions, including Alliance Management, the core businesses (Clinical, Regulatory, Research), Records Management, Quality, etc., and most of the departments within IDS.
- Gain proficiency and lead various technical specialties or processes that are specific and useful to the team. This includes providing framework, tools, documentation, and consultation for the team, such as server management, data transfer and verifications, telecom, etc.
Basic Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree (or 5+ years equivalent work experience)
- 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:
- Demonstrated ability to deliver complex, large projects and is recognized as an influential colleague.
- Demonstrated ability to proactively take accountability and leadership within a wide variety of situations, to aggressively drive projects forward to meet key deadlines.
- Desire and ability to learn a large variety of technical IT topics
- Demonstrated ability to establish a large network of relationships across a variety of business functions
- Demonstrated strong problem-solving skills, and the ability to anticipate, mitigate, or proactively resolve them.
Personal Considerations:
Developing others - strives to improve the skills of team members or others by providing clear, behaviourally specific performance feedback, effective coaching and mentoring, inclusion, and development experiences and opportunities.
Directing others/holding people accountable - develops and issues effective strategies and interpersonal styles and uses the power of the leadership position to set expectations for others, enforce rules, confront others about problems, and tell others what they must do toward the accomplishment of identified objectives and goals.
Empowerment - empowers individuals and groups by sharing responsibility so that they have a deep sense of commitment and ownership, participate and contribute at high levels, are creative and innovative, take reasonable risks and are willing to be held accountable, and demonstrate leadership.
Influence - uses appropriate interpersonal styles and methods and logical arguments to convince others to accept an idea, plan, activity, or product.
Team leadership - be able to develop cooperation and teamwork while leading a group of people, working solutions and tracking risk. Influence the direction of the team.
Flexibility - be able to work with team members from multiple locations, geographies, cultures, and companies.
Interpersonal understanding/sensitivity - acts in a way that indicates understanding and accurate interpretation of others' concerns, motives, and feelings; recognizes strengths and limitations of others.
Oral communication/honest and open communication - demonstrates the ability to effectively transfer thoughts and express ideas through speaking in individual or group situations.
Teamwork and cooperation - able to develop cooperation and collaborative work efforts toward solutions which generally benefit all involved parties.
Adaptability/flexibility - adapts easily to change, sees the merits of differing positions, and adapts own positions and strategies in response to new information or changes in a situation.
Personal growth/attention to learning and development - desires to improve and develop self; sets own development challenges and volunteers to learn.
Self-control/maturity - maintains stable performance and emotions when faced with opposition, pressure, and/or stressful conditions.
Initiative - evaluates, selects, and acts on various methods and strategies for solving problems and meeting objectives before being directed or forced by events; self-directed rather than passively complying with instructions or work orders.
Planning and organizing/project management - establishes a systematic course of action for self or others to assure accomplishment of a specific objective.
Analytical thinking/troubleshooting/information seeking - scans own knowledge and experience base and calls on other references and resources as necessary, building a logical approach to solve problems or manage the situation at hand. Determines when to elevate or delegate work/issues/concerns.
Eli Lilly and Company, Lilly USA, LLC and our wholly owned subsidiaries (collectively "Lilly") are committed to help individuals with disabilities to participate in the workforce and ensure equal opportunity to compete for jobs. If you require an accommodation to submit a resume for positions at Lilly, please email Lilly Human Resources ( [email protected] ) for further assistance. Please note This email address is intended for use only to request an accommodation as part of the application process. Any other correspondence will not receive a response.
Lilly is an EEO/Affirmative Action Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of age, race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, protected veteran status, disability or any other legally protected status.
Our employee resource groups (ERGs) offer strong support networks for their members and help our company develop talented individuals for future leadership roles. Our current groups include: Africa, Middle East, Central Asia Network, African American Network, Chinese Culture Network, Early Career Professionals, Japanese International Leadership Network (JILN), Lilly India Network, Organization of Latinos at Lilly, PRIDE (LGBTQ + Allies), Veterans Leadership Network, Women's Network, Working and Living with Disabilities. Learn more about all of our groups.
As a condition of employment with Eli Lilly and Company and its subsidiaries in the United States and Puerto Rico, you must be fully COVID-19 vaccinated and provide proof of vaccination satisfactory to the company (subject to applicable law).
#WeAreLilly
Date Posted
10/30/2022
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