Associate Vice President – Quality Strategy, Digital, and Transformation

Location: Indianapolis
Posted on: June 23, 2025

Job Description:

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. The Associate Vice President – Quality Strategy, Digital, and Transformation is responsible for facilitating the development of the strategy for the Global Quality organization, overseeing an integrated global quality transformation agenda with particular emphasis on digital innovation, and providing project and change management capability and capacity for key transformation efforts across the quality function. This role approves notification to management for their areas of responsibility. The Associate Vice President – Quality Strategy, Digital, and Transformation develops an monitors the integrated change agenda for quality across the enterprise to ensure all functions and leaders are driving toward a consistent vision. This leader establishes appropriate governance processes, data management and analytics and drives the engagement with governance bodies to ensure the transformation agenda stays on track and meets timelines. This role deploys project management resources to enable successful delivery of the transformation agenda and operational excellence, ensuring capability development across the Quality enterprise. This role helps set direction for quality through participation on the Global Quality Lead Team,Quality Management Committee and Global Manufacturing Quality Lead Team. Key Objectives and Deliverables The Associate Vice President – Quality Strategy, Digital, and Transformation has responsibility to: Coach, develop, and mentor individuals in the organization to deliver on the quality transformation agenda. Own the consolidated transformation project plans and ensure adherence against defined timelines and stage gates Development of data dashboards, tools and data. Analytics to drive key decisions and monitor overall Global Quality performance. Provide people and technical leadership for the quality strategy and transformation; set direction and vision. Drive a culture of continuous improvement in all operations. Develop and monitor digital roadmap for Quality and ensure appropriate integrations and project management across Manufacturing and LRL. Work with key stakeholders to help achieve quality and corporate goals in a compliant manner. Build strong relationships with external regulators globally, particularly in the area of digital innovation. Monitor external regulatory and industry direction for incorporation into quality strategies. Basic Qualifications Education Degree in chemistry, microbiology, pharmacy, or physical or biological sciences, engineering, or other technical areas of study. Experience 7 years of experience in the pharmaceutical or other highly regulated industry. 3 years of experience leading enterprise-wide change. Additional Preferences Education Advanced degree in business or technical discipline Experience 5 years experience leading global capabilities, strategy, and transformation related work. 3 years experience in Quality leadership across GXP operations. Project management or Six Sigma Black Belt Certification or similar preferred Lilly is dedicated to helping individuals with disabilities to actively engage in the workforce, ensuring equal opportunities when vying for positions. If you require accommodation to submit a resume for a position at Lilly, please complete the accommodation request form ( https://careers.lilly.com/us/en/workplace-accommodation ) for further assistance. Please note this is for individuals to request an accommodation as part of the application process and any other correspondence will not receive a response. Lilly is proud to be an EEO Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of age, race, color, religion, gender identity, sex, gender expression, sexual orientation, genetic information, ancestry, national origin, protected veteran status, disability, or any other legally protected status. Our employee resource groups (ERGs) offer strong support networks for their members and are open to all employees. Our current groups include: Africa, Middle East, Central Asia Network, Black Employees at Lilly, Chinese Culture Network, Japanese International Leadership Network (JILN), Lilly India Network, Organization of Latinx at Lilly (OLA), PRIDE (LGBTQ Allies), Veterans Leadership Network (VLN), Women’s Initiative for Leading at Lilly (WILL), enAble (for people with disabilities). Learn more about all of our groups. Actual compensation will depend on a candidate’s education, experience, skills, and geographic location. The anticipated wage for this position is $234,000 - $343,200 Full-time equivalent employees also will be eligible for a company bonus (depending, in part, on company and individual performance). In addition, Lilly offers a comprehensive benefit program to eligible employees, including 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; and well-being benefits (e.g., employee assistance program, fitness benefits, and employee clubs and activities).Lilly reserves the right to amend, modify, or terminate its compensation and benefit programs in its sole discretion and Lilly’s compensation practices and guidelines will apply regarding the details of any promotion or transfer of Lilly employees. WeAreLilly

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