P4: CCI Consultant & OE Site Leader

Job Responsibilities:

This role is responsible for leading the Continuous Improvement Lead Team for the Site Site in accordance with Lilly’s Manufacturing Standards for Operational Excellence (MSOE). Create a partnership with site leadership to encourage and foster a culture of continuous improvement, remove barriers, improve processes, ensure project alignment with site priorities and drive cost reduction for the site to meet or exceed goals and targets. Will own the Operational Excellence Roadmap and its sustainability.

The Champion takes accountability for the success of CCI coaches and will work with the area leadership to enable optimal project selection.  The Champion will ensure appropriate processes are in place to select, train, coach, develop and manage the pool of CCI coaches under his/her supervision or across the organization.  This position has overall responsibility for maintaining and prioritizing a portfolio of potential projects (~1-3M/year), of which the focus should be on business-critical opportunities and challenges.  The Champion works with leadership to implement and organize the lean deployment to ensure consistency of projects, including opportunities to replicate across the organization.

The role will apply knowledge of business operations, functional components, and cross-functional processes to develop and execute transformation projects, integrating organizational change management in support of the site business plan and strategic objectives. Plan and deliver on assigned business initiatives that have the potential to be in a wide-variety of areas and across Lilly del Caribe.

Key responsiblities:

• Competitive Continuous Improvement Program Manager
• Competitive Continuous Improvement Resource Management and/or Supervisor
• Ensure Compliance with Competitive Continuous Improvement Company expectations locally
• Integrator between the Central and Local Competitive Continuous Improvement Programs as well as Externally
• Facilitate or lead complex site-wide, Lilly del Caribe Network or Company-wide business initiatives or projects.   
• Responsible for the integration of the Manufacturing Standards, the site assessment and improvement process, and the owner of the training and communications for the Manufacturing Standards (revisions & deployment of new standards).
• Assist Site Leadership in the design and execution of business strategies development and deployment to deliver high multi-function/site results. Anticipate and escalate key business/organizational opportunities that impact a function, the site or Lilly del Caribe.
• Facilitates reflection and review exercises to develop remediation strategies and/or to identify best practices for future application.
• Provide support to functional leaders with respect to organizational design initiatives on an as needed basis.
• Comply with training required for the position and make sure his/her team remains compliant also.

Basic Requirements:

BS/MS in Engineering (Industrial, Chemical, Mechanical, Electrical, etc.) or equivalent work experience.

Experience:

Minimum of five (5) years in managing projects and other initiatives Strong project management and organizational skills, preferred. Dry Products Manufacturing experience preferred.

Black Belt or Scrum Master Certification, preferred. Lean knowledge and experience.

Additional requirements:

• Excellent skills in managing work teams, projects and integrated activities.
• Excellent people management skills.
• Excellent communication skills at all levels (with both internal and external resources).
• Self-starter, self-directed, effective team member and leader.
• Project management skills.
• Ability to coordinate and accomplish multiple tasks.
• Fully bilingual with written, verbal and oral communication skills (English /Spanish)
• Effective leadership, teamwork, interpersonal and communication skills.
• Excellent technical and writing skills
• Ability to communicate in large group settings
• Extensive technical knowledge in the systems required to support the pharmaceutical manufacturing of solid oral products.
• Anticipate the implications and consequences of situations and take appropriate action to prepare for possible contingencies
• Use a logical, systematic approach to problem solving
• Identify information needed to clarify a situation, seek that information from appropriate sources and use skillful questioning to draw out the information.
• Focus on a desired end result, set challenging objectives, pursue them tenaciously and meet or exceed those objectives.

Important Notice: In order to maintain the excellent reputation of our company, the quality of our products, and the safety of our working environment, the company will take all reasonable measures to ensure that drug abuse by employees or other persons does not jeopardize the safety of our operations or the quality of our products or adversely affect in any way the company or its employees. The company recognizes that drug use both on and off the job can be detrimental to the company and its efforts to provide a drug-free workplace. Even if prescribed under a state medical marijuana law, marijuana remains illegal under federal law. Marijuana is considered unauthorized by Lilly.