Associate Director - IT

At Lilly, the work is demanding because patients are waiting. We unite caring with discovery to help make life better for people around the world, knowing that every decision, every detail, and every day matters. Headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana, our over 50,000 employees around the globe take on complex challenges to discover and deliver life-changing medicines, strengthen how health is understood and managed, and support the communities we serve. This is hard, urgent, selfless work—but it’s work worth doing. If you’re driven by purpose and ready to bring your best to work that truly matters for patients, we invite you to join us.  This is an opportunity you don’t want to miss! Lilly is entering an exciting period of growth, and we are committed to delivering innovative medicines to patients around the world. Lilly is investing to create several new state-of-the-art manufacturing sites. These brand-new facilities will utilize the latest technology for Drug Substance Manufacturing. This is an exciting once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to help build and operate a new site.  These new sites will be built using the latest high-tech equipment, advanced highly integrated and automated manufacturing systems, and have a focus on minimizing the impact to our environment. What You’ll Be Doing : You will be part of Tech@Lilly MQ (Manufacturing and Quality), an organization that drives manufacturing operational excellence and productivity efforts through utilization of technology. Tech@Lilly MQ strives to enable the making of medicine “with safety first and quality always”. The Associate Director for MQ Tech@Lilly will be part of the IT Leadership team for the new Dry Product site in Leiden, NL. This role will report to the MQ IT Sr Director   This role will work hand by hand with both project and operational readiness activities for the facility. . How You’ll Succeed: Ensure site operational readiness from IT perspective.  Site start up and integration of IT systems including: Infrastructure Enterprise Resource Planning Warehouse management & logistics coordination Manufacturing Execution System Data historian, Real Time Floor Tracking Data Integration Data Analytics Data Integrity Laboratory information managements CAPA systems Access Security Building Monitoring Risk Management MES (Manufacturing Execution System) Member of the Site Leadership Team and provide IT site functional leadership. Develop and implement site IT strategic and business plan. Benchmark on innovative solutions (external and internal to Lilly) Dynamically adapt road map to site evolution/strategic directions, and new trends/issues. Partner cross functionally locally and globally to establish and implement site IT roadmap. Responsible for maintaining a safe work environment. People Ensure staffing to meet the site and functional agenda. Lead, coach, and develop members of the team. Establish a strong site culture based in Lilly values,…