Sr. Director- Packaging

Eli Lilly Eli Lilly · Pharma · US: Research Triangle Park, NC

This role is for a Sr. Director of Packaging at Eli Lilly, responsible for operational leadership in device packaging at the Research Triangle Park site. It involves ensuring effective delivery, supporting site leadership, partnering with various departments, developing processes, and interacting with regulatory agencies. The role requires significant engineering and management experience in manufacturing, particularly in device assembly and packaging operations.

What you'd actually do

  1. Provide operational leadership ensuring effective delivery of device packaging.
  2. Provide Health, Safety and Environmental (HSE) and Quality leadership for the DAP Flow team.
  3. Support Site Leadership to build a diverse and capable site organization based in engineering first principles and operational excellence.
  4. Represent operational capabilities beyond the Lilly RTP site (e.g. other Lilly sites and global functional groups).
  5. Partner with Technical Services, Quality and Engineering leadership to deliver functionally strong and operationally centered results.

Skills

Required

  • At least 10 years engineering experience in manufacturing site
  • At least 5 years previous management or leadership experience including leading or working effectively with a cross functional group
  • Front line experience in device assembly and or packaging operations
  • Bachelors degree in engineering

Nice to have

  • Excellent interpersonal, written and oral communication skills
  • Strong technical aptitude and ability to train and mentor others
  • Ability to handle multiple competing priorities
  • Solid understanding of basic requirements of regulatory agencies
  • Previous facility or area start up experience
  • Previous experience in operations and engineering
  • Previous experience with highly automated equipment
  • Previous experience with combination products, device assembly, pharmaceutical packaging, drug product formulation and filling in aseptic environment
  • Previous equipment qualification and process validation experience
  • Previous experience with Manufacturing Execution Systems and electronic batch release.
  • Previous experience with Automated Storage and Retrieval System (ASRS) Warehouses or AGVs
  • Previous experience with deviation and change management systems including Trackwise

What the JD emphasized

  • direct interaction with Regulatory Agencies during site inspections