Associate Director - Manufacturing Alliance Management

Manufacturing And Quality Role

At Lilly, we unite caring with discovery to make life better for people around the world. We are a global healthcare leader headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana. Our employees around the world work to discover and bring life-changing medicines to those who need them, improve the understanding and management of disease, and give back to our communities through philanthropy and volunteerism. We give our best effort to our work, and we put people first. We're looking for people who are determined to make life better for people around the world.

This position represents the Manufacturing and Quality (M&Q) organization in all pharmaceutical alliances where Lilly supplies products. This is a key role within M&Q, facilitating across internal technical and cross functional teams, as well as owning external pharmaceutical relationship management with respect to supply and quality obligations. This role is responsible for supporting multiple strategic pharmaceutical alliances in support of Corporate and International Business Unit (IBU) Business Development transactions, and reports to the Associate Vice President of Business Lifecycle Management. A broad spectrum of technologies is included across the entire pharmaceutical innovation and manufacturing value chains. This diverse position supports an important aspect of enterprise strategy, innovation, and portfolio management across all Pharma businesses.

Responsibilities :

• Represent Eli Lilly and Company in the management of all supply and quality obligations to pharmaceutical alliances.
• Collaborate with partner companies to set the direction and scope for implementation of partnership supply and quality agreements : define key activities, timing, and responsibilities for parties, ensure effective and efficient partnership governance.
• Establish team, network and facilitate knowledge regarding partner company, including company organization / leadership, business strategy, priorities and supply, quality and financial health.
• Establish credibility, trust, and respect internally and externally.
• Identify, understand, lead and resolve any differences between Lilly M&Q and partners including strategy, process, risk tolerance, escalations, and program prioritization, working closely with program, product and other functions where appropriate.
• Review and develop content for term sheets and various @types of contracts.
• Lead the implementation of all supply and quality obligations from global divestitures and other transactions (i.e. M&A, divestitures, collaborations).
• Provide guidance and lead the resolution of conflicts, both of technical and business nature.
• Liaise with all M&Q functions, Manufacturing Sites, Business Units, CM&C, regulatory, legal and finance to provide information / updates as needed.
• Develop reports and presentations for project team, technical, sponsor, executive and third-party reviews.
• Manage the transition of projects as they progress through contracting, implementation planning, signing, closing, and operational integration.
• Collaborate with and prepare materials for a broad spectrum of stakeholders, including Sites, Manufacturing Lead Team (MLT), Development, corporate groups, Business Units, Executive Committee, Lilly Board of Directors, and external parties.

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