Associate Director, HR Projects

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 Overview: The Associate Director, HR Projects role is accountable for leading and implementing projects and/or processes to achieve both long-term and short-term objectives of the business unit or global function they support. This includes ensuring that the right organizational capabilities, leadership, and talent are in place and ensuring that people are engaged, motivated, and appropriately rewarded.

Responsibilities

• Implement the strategic workforce plan, organizational design and corresponding retention strategies. This includes talent acquisition and retention strategies based on business plan and long-range plan.
• Lead the continuous flow talent strategy, which includes shaping, implementing, and documenting leadership and talent development initiatives, succession planning, and pipeline discussions.
• Lead and implement innovative initiatives and processes, including tracking of associated leading and lagging metrics to improve outcomes (e.g., people metrics, leadership capabilities, engagement/retention).
• Partner with HR business leaders to lead specific projects across various subject matters in support of change agendas approved by the function (e.g., , org transformation, leadership capabilities, capability matrix work, reward strategies).
• Partner with the HR COEs to continually and relentlessly simplify and improve HR services for scientific and medical talent that reach across Research, Development, and the Business Units.
  
  
  

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree
• 5 years of HR or Project Management Experience
• Qualified applicants must be authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis. Lilly will not provide support for or sponsor work authorization and/or visas for this role.
  
  
  

Additional Skills And Preferences

• Advanced degree (e.g., MBA)
• HR Experience
• Demonstrated ability and propensity to use data, measurement, and analytics to diagnose problems and to evaluate the actual effect of changes implemented.
• Understands what is critical and unique to performance of this unit and the implications for the organization and people.
• Outcomes Focus: Demonstrated both a bias for action and focus on results.
• Problem Solving: Demonstrated ability to appropriately diagnose business problems and create and implement appropriate solutions.
• Measurement Orientation: Demonstrated ability and propensity to use data, measurement and analytics to diagnose problems and to evaluate the actual effect of changes implemented.
• Business Acumen: Understands what is critical and unique to performance of this unit and the implications for the organization and people.
• Business Integration Knowledge: Ability to recognize the interdependencies of this unit and others, how line and support functions connect, and to apply knowledge of integration to the HR solutions deployed.
• Courage: Demonstrated ability to provoke or motivate the business partner as well as other HR professionals to think and act beyond what is normally expected. Act with no fear of speaking up against the status quo. Can perceive areas of receptivity and resistance and effectively leverage those to drive change.
• Influence: Ability to influence and steer people at all levels, without authority, convince partners at varying levels to accept/appreciate/need HR insights.
• Ability to recognize the interdependencies of this unit and others, how line and support functions connect, and to apply knowledge of integration to the HR solutions deployed.
• Demonstrated ability to provoke or motivate the business partner as well as other HR professionals to think and act beyond what is normally expected.
• Excellent written and oral communication.
• Demonstrated project management skills.
• Excellent written and oral communication.
• Six Sigma experience.
• Knowledge of Workday/Metric systems.
  
  
  

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Actual compensation will depend on a candidate’s education, experience, skills, and geographic location. The anticipated wage for this position is

$122,250 - $179,300

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, including eligibility to participate in a company-sponsored 401(k); pension; vacation benefits; eligibility for medical, dental, vision and prescription drug benefits; flexible benefits (e.g., healthcare and/or dependent day care flexible spending accounts); life insurance and death benefits; certain time off and leave of absence benefits; and well-being benefits (e.g., employee assistance program, fitness benefits, and employee clubs and activities).Lilly reserves the right to amend, modify, or terminate its compensation and benefit programs in its sole discretion and Lilly’s compensation practices and guidelines will apply regarding the details of any promotion or transfer of Lilly employees.

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