Associate Director

6 months ago

Toronto, Canada Lilly Full time

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 Director - Program Management and Affiliate Effectiveness** is focused on accelerating the affiliate’s transformation and automation initiatives, while also coordinating and participating in the Canadian affiliate Lead Team meetings. The role will report to the associate VP Digital Transformation and Operations with a dotted line to the General Manager and will work very closely with Canadian Leadership Team.

The position is located in Toronto and office-based employees are expected to be in office for a minimum of 4 to 12 days per month.

This individual will be responsible for coordinating all LT meetings agendas to ensure alignment with the affiliate’s long-term strategic vision, key priorities and drive overall affiliate effectiveness.

He/she will influence the affiliate’s strategy: provide recommendations to bring in new technologies, maximize the value of current assets, and move away from others. He/she will also influence program priorities based on business needs and activities having the biggest impact on business performance. The selected individual will also own the annual calendar for key meetings and will plan the various LT touchpoints needed to deliver these business processes.

The role will be responsible for all aspects of Program management, including the assurance of alignment with all functions involved.

Specifically, this person will establish and maintain governance of the prioritized affiliate initiatives across all functions and workstreams. They will clearly define effective and efficient large, multi-dimensional program management practices to be utilized by the teams, and the processes that focus on integrating and managing program activity to achieve program goals.

Thanks to the close collaboration and alignment with the local Leadership Team, they will be responsible to articulate the value of each Program and ensure alignment between business partners, the implementation teams, and vendors to ensure program strategy is understood by key stakeholders.

This person will lead, monitor and maintain progress of Program plans to ensure delivery of the key stages and goals within the agreed constraints of time, cost and quality. They will ensure alignment across all functions to understand, communicate, and act on dependencies and will act as an escalation point for all workstreams and manage multiple, conflicting priorities.

They will ensure we establish standards for innovative automation Programs. Design the enterprise principles and standards for automation based on anticipated and repeated needs across Programs, value drivers, and regulations. Document and champion these principles, guidelines, patterns, and methodologies across business and it Program teams, and ensure they are well understood and adopted.

For this position, we are looking for someone who is:

- A dreamer who is bold enough to refuse the status quo when opportunities arise, yet a realist who knows which challenges to be successful
- A geek who eats AI for breakfast and constantly assesses how technology redefines the world we live in
- A driving force that can bring disparate teams together to strategically align them to get things done
- A networker who naturally seeks for connections to co-create impactful and sustainable solutions, together
- A transformer who can tackle complex challenges and translate them into clear stories that will people going
- A power user of collaboration tools, who lives and breathes the core principles of agile every day
- A change manager who understands that humans are creators of habits, and knows how to move people forward
- A data driven person who mines the right data to drive the right strategy and tactics

**Relevant skills**

**Strategy**
- Ability to understand the long-term ("big picture") and short-term perspectives of situations, to align program goals with broader organizational strategies.
- Anticipate needs and effectively consult with business partners internally and externally to identify solutions.
- Challenge unit level leaders and business partners to prioritize and align strategically.
- Comfortably work with ambiguity, in a fast-paced environment that constantly evolves.
- Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written, with the ability to effectively communicate with stakeholders at all levels of the organization.
- Strategic thinking and problem-solving abilities, with the cap

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