Hybrid Associate Vice President – Global Facilities Delivery Projects

at Eli Lilly and Company

• Job title: Associate Vice President – Global Facilities Delivery Projects
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Junior, Mid level
• Salary: $201,000 - $294,800 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Indianapolis, United States

About the role

• Associate Vice President managing multibillion dollar capital projects at Eli Lilly. Leading a diverse team to ensure project compliance, safety, and quality objectives are met while maintaining strategic alignment.

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage a multibillion dollar, complex, large capital project consisting of both Lilly and Non-Lilly professionals to safely achieve project objectives from front end planning and/or site acquisition and government negotiations in a Greenfield site, through operational verification/qualification.
• The objectives for projects include safety/environmental compliance and continuous improvement, steadfast pursuit of value improvements via cost or schedule enhancements at all delivery stages, fulfillment of project business objectives in the form of capability delivered with alignment to quality objectives.
• Ability to lead while away from corporate headquarters and is able to develop and maintain effective communication with the project team, governance teams, business partners, and other stakeholders.
• Projects will be of strategic importance to the Enterprise so the ability to effectively communicate with a wide variety of customers is of utmost importance with attention to detail and the ability to relate those details to the overall business objective.
• The AVP must effectively work with site personnel and corporate Engineering to ensure that capabilities are delivered and consistent with the needs of the operation while maintaining safety, cost, and schedule conformance.
• Manage a staff of exempt level employees (leaders and non leaders) performing tasks such as: ePMs, Development Plans, staffing and planning models, workload assignments and compensation reviews.
• Develop Business & Strategic Plans and Manage departmental expenses for cost center.
• Develop and maintain safety and environmental execution plans for projects.
• Ensure compliance to safety and environmental policies, procedures, and work rules for project personnel, contractors, and subcontractors from conceptual design through operational qualification.
• The AVP is also expected to demonstrate leadership and continuous improvement in safety and environmental processes.
• Lead with a disciplined, structured approach to project management based on compliance with GFD and Company Policies and Procedures.
• As needed, identify the need and lead interaction with external partners or agencies, to fulfill the compliance needs of the projects.
• The AVP is the face of Lilly to the external environment, therefore must represent the Lilly values to external partners and to the community.
• The AVP must demonstrate the ability to foster the right culture on the worksite as well as convey this externally.

Requirements

• Bachelor of Science - Engineering or technical related field, preferably related to project management
• Minimum of 15 years previous experience in successfully delivering a multibillion dollar project(s) from start to end
• Previous experience managing greenfield projects
• Willingness to relocate and/or travel to locations outside of home state/country
• Experience in most of the following disciplines: Automation, construction, construction quality, project controls, the engineering disciplines, safety, scheduling
• Multibillion Dollar Project Management experience in manufacturing facilities (Bulk API, sterile products, secondary packaging, Devices, and to a lesser extent, lab projects)
• Demonstrated ability to work at long distances with little supervision
• Must exhibit a good sense of judgment in decision making, while at the same time keeping management informed and engaged on critical issues
• The capacity to achieve results through people
• Ability to facilitate issue resolution, anticipate scope changes, and implement safely with quality, speed and value
• Effective communication skills both written and verbal
• Ability to influence personnel and organizations without having direct administrative responsibility for them
• Professional Engineer or equivalent technical certification
• Competency in a foreign language(s)

Benefits

• 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
• well-being benefits (e.g., employee assistance program, fitness benefits, and employee clubs and activities)