Associate Director - MQ IT
Eli Lilly and Company
Summary
Lilly is investing more than $6 billion to create a new state-of-the-art manufacturing site in Huntsville, Alabama — the largest initial industrial investment in the state's history. The brand-new facility will utilize the latest technology for synthetic medicine Active Pharmaceutical Ingredient (API) manufacturing, producing small molecule synthetic and peptide medicines, to increase the company's manufacturing capacity.
Job description
Overview
Lilly is investing more than $6 billion to create a new state-of-the-art manufacturing site in Huntsville, Alabama — the largest initial industrial investment in the state's history. The brand-new facility will utilize the latest technology for synthetic medicine Active Pharmaceutical Ingredient (API) manufacturing, producing small molecule synthetic and peptide medicines, to increase the company's manufacturing capacity.
The Lilly Huntsville site will be built using the latest high-tech equipment, advanced highly integrated and automated manufacturing systems, machine learning and AI, digitally integrated monitoring and advanced data analytics, and will have a focus on minimizing the impact to our environment.
What You'll Be Doing
The Manufacturing & Quality (MQ) IT Associate Director – IT for the Huntsville Site will have responsibilities for different areas of the agenda like MES and Labs. This role will report to the Sr Director for Tech at Lilly MQ. They will ensure that the IT portfolio enhances the organizational strategy for the site through successful, consistent, and predictable delivery of programs, projects and applications that benefit the internal organizations and aligns with overall global IT strategy for Manufacturing, Quality, and Supply Chain.
Key Objectives/Deliverables
- Ensure site operational readiness from IT perspective. Site start up and integration of IT systems including: Manufacturing Execution System (MES), Data historian, Real Time Floor Tracking, Data Integration, Data Integrity, Laboratory information management
- Provide IT site functional leadership
- Implement site Digital Tech strategic and business plan
- Partner with the site capital project team and Global Facilities Delivery to ensure IT and OT requirements are embedded in facility design, construction, and commissioning
- Dynamically adapt road maps to site evolution/strategic directions, and new trends/issues
- Partners cross-functionally locally and globally to establish and implement site IT roadmap
- Responsible for maintaining a safe work environment
- Define and execute IT inspection readiness activities
People
- Ensure staffing to meet the site and functional agenda
- Lead, coach, and develop members of the team
- Support diversity, equity and inclusion in recruiting and development of team members
- Lead recognition, pay and promotion decisions
Operational Excellence
- Ensure IT organization is functionally strong and operationally focused
- Ensure solution focused organization
- Provide prioritization and barrier removal
- Provide oversight of technical activities within the group
- Effectively encourage knowledge sharing and education
Additional Information
- The role is Monday through Friday and based on-site. Must be flexible in providing support to accommodate other inputs (production schedules, shutdowns, etc.). Occasional extended hours and/or off-hour work may be required.
- Position will be based out of Huntsville, Alabama, with ability to travel to Indianapolis and other Lilly sites as required.
- The site is actively construction; the role may initially operate from temporary project facilities.
Requirements
- Bachelor's Degree in IT, Computer Science, Engineering
- Minimum 7 years IT Technical Leadership experience working in Pharma and Manufacturing and Quality
- Experience delivering IT for a greenfield capital project, including construction phase, commissioning and qualification, and site start up
- Experience with API small molecule and/or peptide manufacturing and the associated automation landscape
- Strong experience with MES system implementations, Data Integration and Advanced Analytics
- Regulatory compliance knowledge and experience (cGMP)
- Demonstrated creativity, analytical thinking, and the ability to troubleshoot and solve problems
- Excellent written and oral communication skills
Benefits
- 401(k)
- Pension
- Vacation benefits
- Medical, Dental & Vision
- Prescription drug benefits
- Flexible spending accounts
- Life insurance
- Death benefits
- Employee assistance program
- Fitness benefits
- Employee clubs and activities
- Company bonus
Company overview
Eli Lilly and Company, commonly known as Lilly, is a leading American multinational pharmaceutical corporation headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana. Founded in 1876 by Colonel Eli Lilly, the company has grown into one of the world's most valuable pharmaceutical enterprises, with operations in approximately 125 countries. Lilly specializes in developing and manufacturing innovative medicines across multiple therapeutic areas, including diabetes, oncology, neuroscience, immunology, and cardiometabolic diseases. The company is renowned for its groundbreaking work in insulin production, having been the first to mass-produce insulin and later developing the first commercially available insulin product in the U.S. Lilly's current portfolio includes blockbuster medications such as Mounjaro and Zepbound (tirzepatide) for diabetes and obesity, Trulicity (dulaglutide) for type 2 diabetes, Verzenio (abemaciclib) for breast cancer, and Taltz (ixekizumab) for autoimmune conditions. With approximately 47,000 employees worldwide, Lilly maintains a strong commitment to research and development, investing heavily in scientific innovation to address some of the world's most significant health challenges. The company operates with a mission to make life better for people around the world through the discovery and delivery of innovative medicines.