Lead Consultant

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.

Role: Portfolio Manager

Purpose Of The Role
This is an opportunity to experience first-hand the ways in which leadership work.

As you aspire to do big things in your career, you will bring curiosity, creativity, professional maturity, and high learning agility. You will demonstrate a strong commitment and care for getting every detail right, you will communicate clearly and succinctly and be a natural planner and driver. You will manage multiple high priorities, thrive under pressure and aren't afraid to "manage up" when needed.

The project work includes planning and coordinating with the functional team to ensure seamless execution of priorities. You'll help others embrace governance model, operating model and technology by partnering with teams across Lilly and help ensure implementation and adherence. You will be responsible for ensuring that all the key strategic priorities of your functional team are well resourced, and roadblocks are duly raised. Depending on how you want to grow in your career, we'll add in other types of projects that fit your interests.

Responsibilities

• Act as a liaison between the 1-2 functional team(s), head of LCCI and central management team
• Portfolio manager for KSI projects, responsible for identifying and reporting delays, removing bottlenecks and status updates
• Collaborate with Agile COE & respective team to define standard measurement definitions for tracking productivity, savings, value and impact
• Ensure implementation and adherence of the LCCI operating model in the functional team
• Owner of workforce and governance metrics and proactively discuss deviations for respective function
• Responsible for working with functional teams for collection of data as needed for central governance and operating model
• Co-ordinate leadership visits for the respective function
• Owner of SLT scorecard for the respective function
• Work closely with the functional leader and central team to develop communication material as needed for internal initiatives, townhalls, events

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree with a minimum 8 years working experiences in a matrix organization post degree.

Must Haves

• Certifications in project management: PMP, CAPM, Disciplined Agile Scrum Master (DASM), Disciplined Agile, Senior Scrum Master (DASSM)
• Excellent oral & written communication skills
• Ability to deal with ambiguity
• Experience in managing and working with senior level stakeholders
• Ability to collaborate with multiple teams
• Portfolio and project management
• Problem solving & analytical skills – ability to understand data, connect dots and look at the bigger picture
• Ability to break down a complex problem into smaller tasks and developing solutions
• Ability to network and work in a matrix organization

Additional Preferences

• Pharma knowledge, across domains.
• Technical knowledge and broader interest in understanding agile methodology and product operating model.

Additional Information

• This position is working at minimum 3 days/week in the LCCI office
• Travel percentage: 0-10%

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