Senior Director Corporate Health Safety and Environment

Eli Lilly Eli Lilly · Pharma · Indianapolis, IN

This role is for a Senior Director of Corporate Health Safety and Environment (HSE) at Eli Lilly, a global healthcare leader. The position involves providing leadership and oversight for global HSE programs, including compliance, risk management, auditing, business development processes, performance monitoring, and integration strategies. The director will manage the global HSE staff, oversee the annual business plan, and lead corporate governance teams. Key responsibilities include maintaining HSE standards, overseeing auditing functions, assessing HSE aspects for business development, driving integration into new sites, promoting HSE in business continuity, managing enterprise-wide HSE aspects, developing IT system strategy, and coordinating HSE considerations across the value chain. The role also involves establishing and tracking HSE goals, reporting performance, monitoring external trends and best practices, and influencing leadership on regulatory matters. People management includes leading and developing the HSE team, providing direction, coaching, and performance management.

What you'd actually do

  1. Provide leadership, direction, and oversight of global HSE programs.
  2. Continuous improvement of compliance and risk management systems.
  3. Ownership HSE auditing programs for internal and external partners.
  4. Leadership of HSE-related business development processes.
  5. Monitoring HSE performance, establishing and executing new site integration strategies, ownership of enterprise HSE processes and systems, and monitoring the external environment trends and best practices.

Skills

Required

  • Leadership experience
  • HSE management systems
  • Organizational skills
  • Analytical skills
  • Manufacturing operations experience
  • Cross-functional collaboration
  • Influence upward
  • Leadership and team building skills
  • Communication skills

What the JD emphasized

  • Bachelor’s Degree or greater in Occupational Safety, Industrial Hygiene, Engineering or a related technical field.
  • Ten years of HSE, engineering or operations related experience
  • Ten years of leadership experience