Associate Director — PR&D Delivery & Operations

About the role

This role is the mechanism by which the portfolio moves from sustaining the current estate to reshaping it: from request-taking to business partnership, from manual data and process work to AI- and agent-supported execution, and from vendor dependence to retained Lilly capability.

What you'll do

• Help the team bring new use cases forward for evaluation, and support them through validation and into production with appropriate guardrails and human-in-the-loop review
• Build AI-assisted engineering into the team's everyday practice, in step with the broader AI strategy set elsewhere in the portfolio
• Business Partnership & Stakeholder Management — act as the technology partner for PR&D business owners and domain product managers across the portfolio's data
• Capture and challenge incoming demand, agree priorities against capacity, and keep one honest view of the roadmap and what has been traded away
• Translate CMC and scientific need into technical options and constraint, risk and cost into language a business owner can act on

What you need

• Machine learning
• Performance management
• Test automation
• CI/CD
• Data privacy
• Incident response
• B.Sc or B.Tech or B.E. or BCA

Good to have

• LLMs
• AWS
• Azure
• Chemistry