Associate Director - Execution Excellence

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Purpose

The Execution Excellence Lead drives business planning, performance management and process excellence across IBU Marketing and Medical Affairs. The role is the operational backbone connecting strategy to delivery: building integrated plans, tracking execution against commitments, managing budget and resource trade-offs, and coordinating across affiliates, TA teams and global counterparts. Unlike a single-function project manager, it sits at the intersection of Marketing, Medical and Capabilities, so all workstreams plan, execute and report consistently.

This includes:

• OWN performance management routines: define KPIs, track delivery against plan and surface risks early.
• DRIVE process excellence: standardize and simplify planning, governance and reporting across functions.
• LEAD integrated business planning across Marketing, Medical Affairs and capabilities, aligned to global strategy, affiliate needs and resource realities.
• MAINTAIN execution tracking and cadences that give leadership real-time visibility into status, budget and risk.
• CONNECT Marketing, Medical, affiliates and global teams: align stakeholders and resolve issues.

Primary Responsibilities

Performance Management

• DEFINE the KPI and metrics framework used to track Marketing and Medical execution against plan.
• COLLECT input from functional teams to keep a current, high-level view of initiative status across priority markets.
• OWN budget and performance reporting, giving leadership timely portfolio visibility, forecast risk and early red-flag escalation.
• RUN governance forums and review cadences that hold teams accountable for deliverables, timelines and budget.

Process Excellence

• OWN core planning, governance and execution-tracking processes shared across Marketing and Medical.
• SIMPLIFY and standardize processes and tools across both functions, reducing duplication and administrative burden on affiliates and ICX.
• CAPTURE and share best practices and lessons across markets and TAs, embedding them in planning cycles, training and guidance.
• ASSESS process maturity and recommend improvements that raise efficiency and execution quality.

Cross-Functional Coordination

• COORDINATE Marketing, Medical Affairs, affiliates and global functions as the primary point of contact for aligned execution.
• ANTICIPATE and resolve issues before they escalate; ensure decisions and key information are documented.
• LEAD taskforces and working groups with clear scope, ownership and timelines.
• BUILD relationships with functional leaders, influencing through collaboration rather than positional authority, and onboard affiliates into shared planning and governance.

Business Planning

• LEAD integrated business planning across IBU Marketing and Medical Affairs with global, regional and affiliate teams, aligning strategy, priorities and resources.
• BUILD the consolidated operational plan, integrating Marketing and Medical inputs into one view for leadership.
• OWN budget planning: consolidate plans and forecasts, track actuals against plan, and recommend trade-offs and reallocation.
• MANAGE change in scope, quality, cost and timeline, and facilitate leadership review and approval of annual and in-year plans.

Project Management

• TRACK project, program and initiative status in real time across the portfolio, using appropriate tools.
• APPLY cost, timeline, scope and risk disciplines consistently, keeping documentation current and accessible.
• MANAGE select complex, cross-functional projects that need dedicated coordination.
• ESCALATE and resolve issues affecting key deliverables in a timely, structured way.

Minimum Qualification Requirements

• Bachelor's degree required

• Minimum of 2 years of experience business planning, performance management or project/program management in a matrixed organization.

•  Other Information / Additional Preferences
• MBA or equivalent advanced certification beneficial.
• Preferably experience in the pharmaceutical industry across Marketing/Commercial and Medical Affairs.
• Demonstrated business planning, performance management or project/program management in a matrixed organization.
• Strong business fundamentals with a portfolio-level view across functions.
• Proven ability to lead cross-functional teams across functions, geographies and cultures without positional authority.
• Strong interpersonal skills: builds shared vision and manages conflict across diverse stakeholders.
• Strong problem-solving and judgment: anticipates systemic issues, diagnoses root causes, and takes and defends positions.
• Proficiency in project management tools and disciplines (chartering, scope, timeline, budget, communication planning).
• Strong organizational skills; independently manages shifting priorities.
• Excellent written and oral communication, credible at all levels.
• Strong AI skills.
• Experience influencing decisions in virtual, multi-geography environments.
• Experience facilitating workshops or forums that turn insight into an actionable plan and book of work.
• Familiarity with Lean, Six Sigma or similar methodologies is a plus.

Additional Information

• Lilly may provide support for or sponsor work authorization or visas for this role for internal applicants only.

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La rémunération réelle dépendra de l’éducation, de l’expérience, des compétences et de l’emplacement géographique du candidat.  Le salaire prévu pour ce poste est de

$132,000 - $193,600

Les employés équivalents temps plein auront également droit à une prime d’entreprise (en fonction, en partie, des performances de l’entreprise et de la performance individuelle). De plus, Lilly offre un programme complet d’avantages sociaux aux employés éligibles, y compris l’éligibilité à participer à un 401(k) parrainé par l’entreprise ; pension; les prestations de vacances ; l’admissibilité aux prestations médicales, dentaires, de la vue et des médicaments sur ordonnance ; des prestations souples (p. ex., soins de santé et/ou garde de personnes à charge ; l’assurance-vie et les prestations de décès ; certaines prestations de congé et de congé ; et des avantages sociaux (p. ex., programme d’aide aux employés, avantages pour la condition physique, clubs et activités pour les employés). Lilly se réserve le droit d’amender, de modifier ou de mettre fin à ses programmes de rémunération et d’avantages sociaux à sa seule discrétion, et les pratiques et les lignes directrices de Lilly en matière de rémunération s’appliqueront en ce qui concerne les détails de toute promotion ou mutation d’employés de Lilly.

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