Eli Lilly Canada is hiring a Senior Director - Supply Chain and Logistics to lead site-wide supply chain, warehousing, and logistics operations for a new API manufacturing facility. This role ensures reliable product delivery by translating forecasts into production plans, managing inventory and risk, and ensuring regulatory compliance. As a member of the Lilly Site Lead Team, you will contribute to strategic direction and organizational development.
What You'll Do
- Lead materials and production planning to ensure product availability and timely shipments.
- Oversee supply chain meetings to resolve delays and shortages.
- Own site-wide planning processes and integrate supply chain needs into strategic and business plans.
- Develop and maintain planning tools like dashboards and trackers to support cross-functional decision-making.
- Ensure governance of master data including materials, bills of materials (BOMs), recipes, and resources.
- Serve as the primary liaison with the Global Supply Chain organization.
- Manage buying/planning processes and safety stock strategies to meet production requirements.
- Define and track KPIs to measure planning effectiveness and identify improvement opportunities.
- Partner with procurement to address supply chain and vendor-related technical issues.
- Collaborate across the site lead team to align business processes and warehousing with startup and long-term goals.
- Engage with regulators, customers, and external stakeholders, including during audits.
- Promote a strong safety culture across the organization.
- Build organizational capability, capacity, and culture for GMP operations during startup phase.
- Implement systems and processes, leveraging Lilly best practices and external insights.
- Support regulatory compliance and operational excellence through lean principles.
- Collaborate with the project team to ensure smooth facility handoff and readiness.
What We're Looking For
- Bachelor’s degree in a relevant industry, preferably supply chain, procurement, logistics, or engineering.
- 5+ years’ experience supporting manufacturing operations, preferably in a supply chain capacity.
- Experience with planning processes, such as demand management, forecasting tools and processes, manufacturing orders, and bills of materials.
- 5+ years of leadership experience.
Nice to Have
- Collaborates effectively in teams while making independent decisions and influencing diverse groups.
- Fosters teamwork and demonstrates strong interpersonal skills.
- Delivers innovative solutions to site, divisional, and corporate challenges by leveraging cross-functional insights.
Technical Stack
- SAP
Team & Environment
Member of the Lilly Site Lead Team.
Benefits & Compensation
- Compensation: $150,000 - $220,000
- Eligibility for company bonus
- Comprehensive benefit program
- Eligibility to participate in a company-sponsored 401(k)
- Pension
- Vacation benefits
- Medical, dental, vision and prescription drug benefits
- Flexible benefits like healthcare and/or dependent day care flexible spending accounts
- Life insurance and death benefits
- Certain time off and leave of absence benefits
- Well-being benefits like employee assistance program, fitness benefits, and employee clubs and activities.
Work Mode
This role is onsite at a new site area. The specific location will be shared upon signing a confidentiality agreement.
Eli Lilly is an EEO employer and does not discriminate on the basis of age, race, color, religion, gender identity, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, genetic information, ancestry, national origin, protected veteran status, disability, or any other status protected by applicable law.
