Associate VP for Dry Products/Spray Dried Dispersions

As the Associate VP for Dry Products/SDD, you will provide scientific and organizational leadership for one of the fastest growing portions of Eli Lilly & Co’s portfolio. You will ensure the organization provides the technical product stewardship through hiring, developing, and retaining strong talent with the right technical capabilities. Success will require strong collaboration and partnership with key stakeholders such as Product Development, Manufacturing sites, Network scientific resources, and other functional areas to ensure alignment and prioritization of the organization’s key deliverables and technical agenda.  

Key Responsibilities/Deliverables: 

Build and run the organization 

• Determine the appropriate technical expertise that should exist at a Network level, and work to close capability gaps through hiring, development, and retention of technical talent.  

• Ensure that resources are deployed effectively to deliver timely and rigorous support to the dry product sites.  

• Oversee the performance management process for the organization and ensure all employees have development plans in place to elevate performance and support career goals.  

• Conduct interim and end of year performance reviews 

• Coach, develop, and provide feedback to reports 

• Lead recognition, compensation, and promotion activities 

• Lead talent assessment and succession planning for network and site TS/MS organizations 

• Encourage shared learning within and outside the department 

• Lead short and long-term business planning (objectives, budget, capital, capability) 

Lead control strategy, commercialization, and tech agenda 

• Work with leadership of TS/MS, PR&D, Quality, Engineering, and Operations to develop the expectations for Control Strategy Implementation.  

• Work with PR&D to ensure that control strategies for new products are robust. 

• Actively work with Dry product sites to install processes with robust validations.   

• Develop a strong working relationship with Development to support new products commercialization.  

• Ensure  

• Build  and  scale up/pilot plant capability vital to support the network tech agenda through the development of technical talent, pilot plant infrastructure/capital, and ensuring all individuals have adequate training.  

Ensure TS/MS Functional Excellence at Manufacturing Sites.   

• Ensure that we build functionally excellent TS/MS groups at each manufacturing site within the network.   

• Coach and mentor the TS/MS heads at the Dry products manufacturing sites.   

• Ensure that there are appropriately trained individuals, adequate recruiting, and adequate succession planning at the sites.   

• Become the point of contact for critical manufacturing issues and ensure appropriate escalation of significant issues.  Consult on deviations, process changes, and validations.  

Foster a culture of safety & compliance  

• Ensure personal and team compliance with all applicable regulatory and corporate policy requirements 

• Ensure appropriate safety practices and procedures are in place and are followed to prevent injuries;  

• Ensure that Dry products/SDD meets current Quality expectations and is a part of actively monitoring evolving Quality and other regulatory expectations related to dry products manufacturing.