Associate Director/Director, S2P Contracting COE

Key Responsibilities

Personnel Management and Development

• Lead, supervise, coach, and develop the S2P Contracting COE team to deliver on its mission, including a mix of direct reports and an M1 supervisor.
• Attract, develop, and retain a diverse team, including onboarding new staff.
• Model Lilly values and foster an environment where results are recognized and team members feel comfortable speaking up and sharing ideas.
• Hold regular development conversations: share feedback, identify strengths and growth areas, coach, support mentoring, and manage performance.
• Manage and forecast team resource needs so projects are completed on time.

Master Procurement Templates

• Own the MPT contract inventory.
• Oversee change control for new and updated MPT clauses, templates, and playbook guidance.
• Manage and oversee ad hoc specialty projects, such as amending large volumes of contracts to comply with applicable law or internal policy updates.
• Represent MPT standards and the negotiation playbook in audits.
• Partner with cross-functional and Procurement colleagues to identify needed changes to the MPT inventory and Work Order Templates.
• Analyze frequently negotiated terms and recommend MPT updates to Lilly Legal/SMEs and Procurement leadership.

Contract Training

• Partner with S2P Learning & Development to build role-specific CLM and MPT training and onboard Global Procurement on their use.
• Create and maintain onboarding and training resources and materials for the S2P Contracting COE.
• Oversee MPT-related content on the Supplier Resources Portal on Lilly.com.

Contract Lifecycle Management Program

• Partner closely with leaders across Procurement, IBU Procurement and Lilly Legal to define and implement a shared CLM program strategy, driving progress to agreed budget and timelines.
• Report progress, proactively identify risk, and escalate in a timely manner to leadership.
• Lead pre-implementation discovery efforts with project team to identify gaps, elicit requirements, develop process maps, and identify contract management reporting needs, KPIs and SLAs.
• Ensure the CLM solution and training program comply with Lilly policies and procedures.
• Partner with Tech@Lilly to guide the CLM vendor on requirements, development, legacy contract migration, integrations, and validation testing, and to manage the vendor relationship for performance, security, and compliance.
• Benchmark CLM practices and recommend opportunities for innovation and improvement.
• Lead project team as the contracting SME to deliver program key objectives, including transformation of Procurement's contracting process, tracking and reporting CLM SLAs, KPIs, and contract terms, accelerating delivery of contracts, and enabling self-service contracting within acceptable risk profiles.

Basic Requirements

• BS/BA degree in related discipline (e.g., Legal, business, project management)
• Significant experience in people management; ability to motivate teams and achieve results through others.
• Strong interpersonal and teambuilding skills; able to deliver effective coaching and feedback; positively manage and resolve conflict and demonstrate strong leadership and influence skills.
• Strategic mindset with the ability to define strategy and drive implementation.
• Minimum of 10 years' of progressive work experience that clearly demonstrates contract drafting, contract negotiation, and/or legal experience.

Additional Skills/Experiences

• Proven experience with global project implementations
• Proven problem solving, critical thinking and decision making
• Proven ability to author and negotiate complex MSA's in a highly regulated environment
• Ability to network and influence across all levels of management and across organizations.
• Ability to work independently and prioritize multiple projects.
• Procurement/Professional sourcing experience
• CLM Technology experience
• MBA

Travel Percentage: Occasional international travel (up to 10%)