Sr. Director - Tech@Lilly (IT) Procurement

Sr Director - Tech@Lilly (IT) Procurement

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.

Organization Overview :

The Sr Director - Tech@Lilly (IT) Procurement leads a team of sourcing associates to optimize our spending of over $1 Billion annually for IT related services, software and hardware. The key categories of spend for IT services include application development and maintenance services, systems integration services, telecommunications, and information security. Software spend areas include Software as a Service (SaaS), on-premise software and desktop / laptop related software. Our key hardware purchases are data center hardware (e.g. servers), desktops / laptops and printers.

Essential Duties For This Role Include :

• Leading and developing a team of sourcing professionals who are responsible for developing and implementing sourcing strategies to deliver savings / value for IDS while enhancing the IDS capabilities.
• Achieving team performance targets for savings, diverse supplier spend, inflation management, implementation of guided buying, supplier rationalization, and supplier risk management.
• Developing and implementing process efficiencies and automation to enhance productivity of the team and make buying and issue resolution easier for the business partners.
• Engaging in internal and external governance activities to exert procurement influence, ensuring collaboration within the team and across different functions, establishing appropriate execution strategies and demonstrating problem solving.
• Providing procurement expertise, project prioritization, and business alignment to enable the completion of team activities in an efficient manner to appropriately allow for work life balance.
• Performing effective internal account management with the IDS Lead Team and their respective team members, while learning about their business areas, strategies, key goals and objectives and long-term business needs.
• Coordinating and maintaining supplier relationship management activities for our key IDS suppliers to allow for deeper and more strategic relationships.
• Creating and effectively executing strategies to meet or exceed our supplier development goals.
• Influencing, reviewing, and exercising authority to ensure all transactions are FRAP compliant and that contract proposals are appropriately networked with functional leadership, finance and procurement leadership and the respective ATS and ATC approvers.

Education, Skills And Relevant Experiences Are The Requirements For This Role :

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Our employee resource groups (ERGs) offer strong support networks for their members and are open to all employees.

Actual compensation will depend on a candidate's education, experience, skills, and geographic location. The anticipated wage for this position is $154,500 - $226,600.

Full-time equivalent employees also will be eligible for a company bonus (depending, in part, on company and individual performance). In addition, Lilly offers a comprehensive benefit program to eligible employees.