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Role Purpose
The Senior Director of Tech@Lilly for the Mexico Affiliate is accountable for defining, owning, and governing the technology and digital strategy that enables the affiliate’s long-term business objectives, growth ambitions, and operational resilience.
This role operates as a strategic business leader, not only ensuring execution, but making enterprise-level trade-offs across investments, capabilities, risk, and capacity. The position represents Mexico at Hub, IBU, and Global Tech forums and is a core member of the Mexico Affiliate Leadership Team.
Strategic & Enterprise Leadership
- Define the multi-year Tech strategy and investment agenda for the Mexico Affiliate, aligned with Hub, IBU, and Global priorities.
- Act as final decision authority for technology trade-offs, prioritization, and sequencing of initiatives.
- Shape how technology enables business strategy, customer engagement models, and operating efficiency — beyond individual projects.
- Influence enterprise decisions by representing Mexico’s needs, risks, and opportunities at Hub and Global levels.
Portfolio Ownership & Value Accountability
- Own the end-to-end value realization of the Tech portfolio, accountable for outcomes, not only delivery.
- Decide where to invest, scale, pause, or stop initiatives based on business impact, capacity, and strategic fit.
- Ensure strong governance, risk management, and architectural alignment across the affiliate portfolio.
- Delegate execution while retaining accountability for results.
Transformation, AI & Future Capabilities
- Define the digital, data, and AI ambition for the Mexico Affiliate, including the prioritization of strategic use cases.
- Sponsor and govern transformation programs that materially change how the affiliate operates and competes.
- Ensure responsible, scalable, and secure adoption of AI and automation capabilities.
- Drive mindset shift at leadership level toward simplification, standardization, and data-driven decision-making.
Business Intelligence & Analytics (BI&A)
- Define and execute the affiliate’s BI&A strategy, with hands‑on involvement in shaping analytics approaches and ensuring alignment with business objectives and Hub, regional, and global priorities.
- Translate business needs into a pragmatic BI&A roadmap, actively guiding delivery teams and personally engaging in key use cases from problem framing through insight generation.
- Lead and directly contribute to advanced and predictive analytics initiatives, including hands‑on experience with forecasting, segmentation, propensity modeling, scenario analysis, and performance optimization.
- Establish and actively manage data governance and data quality practices, with practical experience addressing real data issues, defining ownership, and ensuring compliant, reliable datasets.
- Drive adoption of self‑service BI and analytics solutions by working closely with business users, enabling practical usage of insights and fostering a strong, action‑oriented data‑driven culture.
Organizational & Talent Leadership
- Design and evolve the Tech organizational model, ensuring the right capabilities, roles, and leadership depth.
- Build strong succession pipelines for critical roles and ensure long-term organizational sustainability.
- Serve as a coach and developer of senior leaders within the Tech organization.
- Be accountable for engagement, retention, and performance outcomes at organizational level.
Executive Stakeholder & Governance Leadership
- Act as a trusted strategic advisor to the Affiliate GM and leadership team.
- Represent Mexico Tech@Lilly in Hub, IBU, and Global governance bodies.
- Influence without authority across complex, matrixed environments to drive enterprise outcomes.
Qualifications & Experience
Required
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience.
- Fluent in English and Spanish.
- 12+ years of experience in Technology / Digital / IT roles with progressive leadership responsibility.
- Proven experience leading technology portfolios or organizations in complex, matrixed environments.
- Strong business acumen and ability to translate strategy into execution.
Preferred
- MBA or advanced degree.
- Experience in pharmaceutical, life sciences, or regulated industries.
- Experience in AI, automation, data & analytics, and digital platforms.
- Experience leading transformation and organizational change.
Key Competencies
- Strategic thinking and execution
- Executive presence and influence
- Strong people leadership and talent development
- Learning agility and adaptability
- Results-oriented, with a bias for action
- Ability to operate effectively in ambiguity and complexity
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