Sr. Director - QMS Electronic System Excellence

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Overview of Role: 

The Senior Director, QMS Electronic System Excellence, will play a pivotal role in ensuring excellence in electronic platforms by establishing business ownership of key systems. This position requires a close partnership with IT to enhance digital capability, data management, and data governance. Additionally, the role involves developing state-of-the-art monitoring, signal identification, and resolution processes to address key challenges related to people, processes, and technology.

High-Level Responsibilities:

• Engage with end users to understand their needs and ensure that electronic platforms meet their requirements and enhance their experience.

• Work closely with global process owners to align quality processes and systems with organizational goals and standards.

• Partner with IT to drive improvements in digital capability, ensuring robust data management and governance.

• Create advanced monitoring, signal identification, and resolution processes to address challenges related to people, processes, and technology.

• Maintain the integrity and health of quality processes within the QMS framework, ensuring continuous improvement and evolution.

• Align ways of working to the GQS and QMS governance and monitoring model to deliver excellence beyond Quality-owned processes across the framework.

• Consult with Lilly manufacturing, external supplier organizations, marketing affiliate quality operations, research and development, and other functions to drive enterprise level processes where applicable.

• Ensure the Global Standard, Processes, Practices, Trainings, and implementation tools are implemented and maintained according to regulatory, industry, and company expectations.

• Implement and continuously improve governance that results in prioritization, decisions at the right level, and enables QMS ease of execution for required changes.

• Define a common set of global effectiveness and efficiency measures to drive end-to-end QMS health, enable desired performance, and build capability expertise.

• Monitor performance metrics, report, and provide insights to inform decision-making to drive further improvements.

Basic Requirements:

• 10+ years in pharmaceutical quality systems leadership, with a proven record of delivering global quality solutions and digital transformation.

• Deep knowledge and hands-on expertise with SAP Quality Management, Veeva eQMS, and Veeva Documentation platforms.

• Demonstrated success leading and developing high-performing global teams, including cross-functional and matrixed environments.

• Strong background in driving organizational change, digital adoption, and building digital competencies across geographically dispersed teams.

• Bachelor’s degree in Natural Science, Engineering, Pharmacy, or other Life Science-related field.

Additional Skills/Preferences:

• Proven ability to work in a matrixed organization leading diverse teams and influencing areas not under direct control.

• Experience leading a major multi-site or global functions improvement initiative.

• Strong strategic thinking capability with a focus on the ability to execute strategic decisions while balancing conflicting priorities.

• Ability to drive system improvements and strategic decisions by analyzing and interpreting complex data.

• Demonstrated change agility in anticipating and leading others through change and ambiguity.

• Excellent teamwork, interpersonal, and communication skills, with the ability to communicate and collaborate at all levels through various formats.

• Expertise in developing scalable and standardized processes across global operations to improve efficiency and reduce complexity.

• Demonstrated influential leadership expertise and experience engaging with senior-level functional leads.

• Strong leadership capability to make and act on decisions while balancing speed, quality, and risk to deliver value-added business results.

• Strong capabilities in establishing governance structures and proactively addressing quality and regulatory risks.

Additional Information:

• Available to travel (domestic and international) when required (ca. 10%).

• Fluent in English; additional languages are also recommended.

• Role may be based at selected locations in the US Eastern Time Zone. Remote work may be considered.

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Actual compensation will depend on a candidate’s education, experience, skills, and geographic location.  The anticipated wage for this position is

Full-time equivalent employees also will be eligible for a company bonus (depending, in part, on company and individual performance). In addition, Lilly offers a comprehensive benefit program to eligible employees, including eligibility to participate in a company-sponsored 401(k); pension; vacation benefits; eligibility for medical, dental, vision and prescription drug benefits; flexible benefits (e.g., healthcare and/or dependent day care flexible spending accounts); life insurance and death benefits; certain time off and leave of absence benefits; and well-being benefits (e.g., employee assistance program, fitness benefits, and employee clubs and activities).Lilly reserves the right to amend, modify, or terminate its compensation and benefit programs in its sole discretion and Lilly’s compensation practices and guidelines will apply regarding the details of any promotion or transfer of Lilly employees.

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