Project Management - SDnA

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Job description

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.

Job Description

At Lilly, we serve an extraordinary purpose. We make a difference for people around the globe by discovering, developing and delivering medicines that help them live longer, healthier, more active lives. Not only do we deliver breakthrough medications, but you also can count on us to develop creative solutions to support communities through philanthropy and volunteerism.

Purpose:

The purpose of the Project Management role within Statistics Data and Analytics (SDnA) Business Capabilities Management is to drive the application and integration of project management processes and tools across SDnA to help deliver assets and portfolio value with quality on time, on budget and within scope. In addition, Project Management - SDnA ensures the quality and organizational excellence of SDnA by supporting performance of functional processes, and influencing team culture. The Project Management - SDnA facilitates and enables the delivery of integrated plans by being responsible for and effectively managing relationships and communications between Lilly teams and functions, and SDnA.

Primary Responsibilities:

The term "Project team" is used throughout the JD, this can reference a compound team, business capability team, or any other team related to a project.

Project Management

• develop and maintain realistic project management plans and timelines and help ensure on time results
• Effectively manage communications, anticipate and resolve issues with the project team, ensure documentation of key information and decisions.
• Ensure quality and organizational excellence of the assigned project team; supporting performance of SDnA. Monitors and reports performance to plan and drives project team when plan is not being achieved
• Drives operations meetings or other appropriate forums to prospectively manage upcoming project team related activities, key milestones, and decisions, as well as to proactively identify updates to project plans
• Understand the drivers in SDnA projects and able to explain changes and variance questions
• Adapt quickly to project changes to ensure current forecasts and facilitate business decisions
• Seek opportunities to capture, share and incorporate takeaways into future iterations of processes, tools, training or guidance.
• Projects and responsibilities may span across event planning, recruiting, functional and portfolio projects, portfolio work, business analysis and SDnA engagement including DE&I.

Communication and Team Management

• Influences and works with a quality mentality across the project team by documenting key decisions, actions, and key modifications in scope, resources and timeline; ensuring accurate collection and communication of metrics throughout projects
• Ensures coordination of meeting logistics and provision of meeting agendas and meeting minutes/action items.
• Effectively and reliably communicates and influences upward in the organization by providing clear and concise information to enable decision-making
• Contribute to the development of others by being an active source of coaching and feedback to coworkers.

Leadership:

• Enable cross-functional results through people, using influence rather than direct or positional authority (influence without authority)
• Lead the SDnA project teams with judgment-based decisions
• Lead others through expertise in business management processes and procedures
• Adapt quickly to change and assist others in aligning with the changes.

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree
• Minimum of 3 years of project management or clinical research/clinical trial experience

Additional Preferences:

• Previous experience with scientific communications or statistics functional processes is a plus
• Strong computer skills; skilled at using Word, Excel (including pivot tables), PowerPoint, Power BI, Power Automate, SharePoint, MS Teams and Microsoft Project
• Excellent oral and written communication skills; able to communicate clearly and succinctly with team members
• Strong problem-solving skills; able to anticipate and recognize problems, diagnose root causes and take corrective action to prevent recurrence within the team, lead without authority
• Excellent self-management and organizational skills; able to manage workload and adjust personal priorities, as needed based on guidance from supervision
• Strong interpersonal and teambuilding skills; able to develop effective teamwork between team members with diverse interpersonal styles; able to deliver effective coaching and feedback. Flexibility to adjust quickly and effectively to frequent change and altered priorities
• Practical experience performing project management for multiple projects

Lilly is dedicated to helping individuals with disabilities to actively engage in the workforce, ensuring equal opportunities when vying for positions. If you require accommodation to submit a resume for a position at Lilly, please complete the accommodation request form ( ) for further assistance. Please note this is for individuals to request an accommodation as part of the application process and any other correspondence will not receive a response.

Lilly is an EEO/Affirmative Action Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of age, race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, protected veteran status, disability or any other legally protected status.

Our employee resource groups (ERGs) offer strong support networks for their members and help our company develop talented individuals for future leadership roles. Our current groups include: Africa, Middle East, Central Asia Network, African American Network, Chinese Culture Network, Early Career Professionals, Japanese International Leadership Network (JILN), Lilly India Network, Organization of Latinos at Lilly, PRIDE (LGBTQ + Allies), Veterans Leadership Network, Women's Network, Working and Living with Disabilities. Learn more about all of our groups.

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