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.

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 39,000 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 patients around the world.
 

Lilly Capability Centre India, is made up of a talented diverse team of over 3,000 employees across who deliver innovative solutions that add value across a variety of Business Service functions including Finance, Information Technology, Commercial, Drug development and more.

Lilly offers a premium workspace across our campus in Bangalore, complete with flexible hybrid working options, healthcare, pension benefits, subsidised canteen, onsite gym, travel subsidies and on-site parking.  Inhouse People Development services, Educational Assistance, and our wellbeing initiatives are just some of the holistic benefits that enhance the career experience for our colleagues.

Come join our team - Be Creative, Be an Innovator, and most of all, Be Yourself!

Position Description:

As a key member of the LCCI Site governance and transformation team the Associate Director, Governance & culture role will lead the site governance framework evolution and execution in supporting the effective governance of the leadership bodies and Employee Resource Groups (ERG’s) within LCCI and partner with Ethics & Compliance (E&C) and the other central teams on supporting the effective measurement and mitigation on key site risk areas. The role will also build strong networks with key business partners to ensure alignment with functional strategic objectives in governance and culture area.

Position attributes:

Be a visible model of governance, integrity and champion the Team Lilly approach to support, enable, maximise and measure the impact of our governance forums and ERGs across the LCCI siteWork with local and One India leadership to achieve our combined business objectives and ensure consistency and efficiency within our governance frameworks.Demonstrate a strong, personal commitment and model behaviours towards an inclusive culture that engenders excellence, accountability and execution, while retaining a safe, open, honest and an enjoyable workplace

Key Responsibilities:

Leadership Governance

Lead the evolution and execution of the leadership governance frameworks across the site.Partner with the Snr director – Site Governance and Business Transformation and the General Manager and Executive Lead team to evolve the leadership governance framework to maximise its effectiveness and impact in support of site objectivesResponsible and accountable for aspects such as timely scheduling the meetings, defining strategic and operational agenda, creating meeting minutes, maintain action log and complete periodic reviews of meeting effectiveness.Lead the best practices of effectively running the governance meetings. E.g, Pre-reads should be submitted to the Governance Committee at a time prior to the meeting stipulated in the Charter.  Minutes should be circulated to relevant parties (as agreed with the Chair and documented in the minutes) and include details on all decisions made, and all action items with assigned owner.Meetings should balance appropriate strategic direction setting and operational execution to maximize impact and action items should be followed up and closed out.Drive strong partnership and engage with leaders in the governance bodies to focus on site core purpose and value and develop and evolve a site scorecard identifying metrics for success at an aggregated functional and site wide level, while revisiting regularly and evaluating progress.

Culture Champion and integrity

Lead the ERG governance ensuring that our employee resource groups collaborate to maximise employee engagement, inclusiveness and a sense of belongingChampion an accountability, empowerment and integrity mind-set across the site leadership governance forums and ERGsLead the coordination of our Business Continuity Planning process, partnering with function and central teams to ensure appropriate BCPS exist and are tested regularly ensuring the continuation of our critical processes when BCP events are encounteredPromote a strong DEI working environment where diversity of thought is seen a key enabler of our site success and work across ERGs, L&D and leadership to ensure a coherent and consistent focus on DE&I Partner with E&C and other central teams to be able to measure and articulate our integrity and compliance story and partner with those functions to evaluate on a regular basis our policies and processes and ensure appropriate levels of awareness across the sitePartner with E&C on the execution of appropriate integrity certifications, ensuring clear understanding of our compliance environment across the leadership teams

Innovation

Partner with the leadership team to support an environment of continuous improvement within LCCI by identifying and championing ideas for value and capacity creationPartner closely with the central teams and ERGs within LCCI to drive business plan initiatives, focus on operational efficiency and successfully partner with new business functions.Use industry knowledge and external benchmarking to stay current with respect governance and culture frameworks in a rapidly changing ecosystemIdentify technology opportunities to support and accelerate our governance and culture strategy and standardize/automate processes to increase effectiveness and efficiency.Drive the integration of our people, culture, compliance and productivity strategy within each function represented at the site.

Position Preferred Requirements:
 

Post graduate degree (MBA/MSc/MPharm) or adequate professional experience to meet above deliverables.10+ years of experience in Finance or other governance related function. At least 3+ years of  leadership experience with proven success in running governance for an affiliate or capability centre including scorecard measurement systemsStrong awareness and understanding of importance of governance, compliance and culture withing the business environment in achieving shared successesAbility to partner and influence across matrixed organization and collaborate with peers locally and globally.Ability to communicate clearly and succinctly with all audiences and forums through strong oral and written communication.Proactively identifies issues offering creative solutions and strategies.Demonstrated experience in converting strategies into actionable steps, building governance and measurement systems that ensure execution with excellence.Demonstrated leadership skills and effectiveness in the areas of influence, team leadership, articulating a position, negotiation, and conflict resolution.

Additional Skills/Competencies:

Consistent and demonstrated mindset focused on integrity, innovation, engagement and commitmentExperience working in a high productive, fast paced environmentResilience to deal with set backs and barriers while adapting to the environment and situation when necessary. Outstanding interpersonal skills and be able to work across functional areas within a company culture that is high performance, self-directing and collegial.

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 (https://careers.lilly.com/us/en/workplace-accommodation) 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 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.

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