At Lilly, the work is demanding because patients are waiting. We unite caring with discovery to help make life better for people around the world, knowing that every decision, every detail, and every day matters. Headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana, our over 50,000 employees around the globe take on complex challenges to discover and deliver life-changing medicines, strengthen how health is understood and managed, and support the communities we serve. This is hard, urgent, selfless work—but it’s work worth doing. If you’re driven by purpose and ready to bring your best to work that truly matters for patients, we invite you to join us.
Company Overview
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.
Position Brand Description
How would you like a career where you get to apply your best technical and analytical skills to bring complex, high-potency biologic medicines to patients? We are seeking a scientific leader on our Parenteral Product Network Technical Services/Manufacturing Science (TS/MS) team to drive the commercialization of lyophilized drug products, with a focus on antibody drug conjugates (ADCs), and to provide technical support for commercial lyophilized product manufacturing.
In this role, you are critical to the success of Lilly’s oncology and biologics portfolio. As a Global Product Steward and lyophilization process expert, you will hold technical ownership of assigned lyophilized ADC and other parenteral products from late-stage development through the commercial lifecycle, serving as the technical link between Product Development and our commercial manufacturing sites. You will ensure these products are successfully launched, reliably supplied, and technically well controlled across internal and external sites.
Responsibilities
As an individual contributor, you will work side by side with colleagues in Product Development, Manufacturing Operations, Quality, EHS, and Supply Chain, as well as with external manufacturing organizations. You will be a visible technical presence in cross-functional teams, mentor junior technical associates, and escalate significant technical, quality, safety, and supply risks to management with clear assessments and recommended actions.
Key responsibilities include:
Serve as Global Product Steward and subject matter expert for lyophilized, ADC and parenteral products, holding end-to-end technical accountability for process performance, product quality, and supply across all manufacturing sites, and serving as the primary technical interface between Product Development and commercial manufacturing.
Advance lyophilization technology in commercial manufacturing
Maintain the product technical knowledge base and lifecycle strategy, including process history, critical material and supplier knowledge, a product technical risk register, and a roadmap for yield, robustness, capacity, and site-network improvements.
Collaborate with product development and manufacturing site for technology transfer, scale-up, process performance qualification/validation, and comparability activities (including lyophilization cycle transfer between freeze-dryers of differing scale and design) to support commercial launch readiness.
Escalate significant technical, quality, safety, compliance, and supply risks to TS/MS management in a timely manner, providing risk assessments, impact to patients and supply, and recommended mitigation plans.
Own the commercial control strategy for lyophilization critical process…