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Organization Overview: The Global Supply Chain Excellence organization focuses on standardization of business processes by emphasizing lean methodologies and master data management while interfacing with relevant key stakeholders including sites / networks, M&Q; IT, and HR business partners.
Role Overview: The Associate Director Global Supply Chain – GPO Warehouse serves as the business process owner for Lilly's global warehousing processes.
Responsibilities: This role is accountable for defining, maintaining, and sustaining the global warehouse process, which includes:
* Defining and documenting the warehouse business process steps
* Designing the process flow, key success measures, and interaction with other processes
* Implementing transformational or continuous improvement changes to the process
* Benchmarking the process amongst industry peers
* Handing over the process to global and local warehouse teams in the business
* Training users on the business process
* Defining global business processes for warehouse operations across all manufacturing networks (API, parenteral, and dry products)
* Developing a strategic vision for the business process in line with overall business objectives
* Making recommendations for warehouse process development and improvement on behalf of the stakeholders
* Making decisions to align processes, organizational roles, and technology
Process Governance:
* Forming a companywide strategic roadmap to improve warehouse process maturity
* Aligning strategic roadmap with key stakeholders across functions, hierarchy, and different parts of the business
* Training users on business processes
Process Design:
* Serving as an expert and key team member in major process Global Supply Chain design changes
* Documenting and mapping the global business process
* Capturing and analyzing business requirements and translating these into standardized business processes, including definitions, templates, data sources, technology roadmap, and roles and responsibilities
* Developing key output and KPI requirements that support the warehouse process
* Enabling process design through technology and analytics
Measurement and Continuous Improvement:
* Tracking benefits and improvement into the business
* Channeling continuous improvement ideas and selecting suitable ones to turn into projects
* Ensuring the warehouse review processes happen on time
Basic Requirements:
* BS or MS degree in Materials Management, Engineering, Finance, Business Administration or related field
* At least 5 years of manufacturing and/or supply chain experience with an understanding of material flows, preferably in the pharmaceutical industry
* Strong Materials Movement business process knowledge
* Knowledge of systems required to store, manage and control materials through the manufacturing process including inbound, production, and outbound operations
* Automation and/or robotics experience
Additional Skills / Preferences:
* Excellent written and verbal communication skills, as well as the ability to effectively communicate with technical and nontechnical audiences
* Strong interpersonal and communication skills
* Good problem-solving and influencing skills
* Ability to analyze project needs and balance competing interests, and to determine the resources needed to meet objectives
* Use of business process modeling techniques, such as contextual inquiry, business narratives and value networking analysis
* Project management skills to manage overall transformation or continuous improvement projects across multiple geographies
* Ability to identify modifications to business practices to take full advantage of technology innovation
* Use thought leadership to anticipate future needs and changes that might be required
* Able to identify the impact of initiatives on business results to drive priorities
* A certification in supply chain is desired
Additional Information:
Work shift: Full time, normal work shift
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