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 in Germany, we are currently planning and building a high-tech production facility in Alzey (Rhineland-Palatinate), which will expand our production of injectable drugs from 2027 and employ up to 1,000 specialists. To make the most of our innovative production site, we are looking for motivated reinforcements who, together with us, will ensure the supply of Lilly medicines in Germany, Europe, and worldwide, in line with the three Lilly values of “Excellence,” “Integrity,” and “Respect for People.”
Join our Lilly team in Alzey and start as soon as possible as:

• The operational readiness Project Manager is a key role in developing and communicating a comprehensive, coherent, and clear integrated project plan is developed and managed to successfully bring the manufacturing facility to a state of operational readiness.
• The PM will report to the Operational Readiness Program Lead, collaborating with Project Managers to integrate deliverables across multiple workstreams for parenteral operations readiness.
• The PM will ensure clear structured communications between the different site functions (Ops, TSMS, QA, QCL, Maintenance, Logistics, IT, Automation, etc.), and Global Facilities Delivery (GFD) team.
• Coordinate complex aspects of Operational Readiness to ensure an on-time, error-free facility start-up and successful Process Validation for parenteral operations.
• With input from all cross functional stakeholders, identify all the relevant pre manufacturing program elements necessary to be in place to support the area of operational readiness.
• Work with the GFD project team, operational readiness program lead and site functional representatives to develop an integrated start up plan reflective of key linkages, interdependencies, durations, resource requirements etc.
• Be a key interface point between the GFD project and end users to ensure the right priorities are communicated & understood across multiple stakeholders.
• Working with the different cross functional teams
• Partnering with relevant stakeholders to ensure clear scope alignment and resulting goals and timelines for the project are met.
• Facilitate decision making within the team under tight deadlines.
• Effectively communicating and managing internal and external stakeholders.
• Identify and escalate potential material changes and risks in milestone delivery
• Proactively managing issues, proposing and implementing plans to resolve as needed.
• Forecasting resource needs across the integrated plan
• Develop reports and dashboard to provide relevant metrics to appropriate Governance Forums.