Senior Director – HR Technology Lead

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, we serve an extraordinary purpose. We make a difference for people around the globe by discovering, developing, and delivering medicines that help them live longer, healthier, more active lives. Not only do we deliver breakthrough medications, but you also can count on us to develop creative solutions to support communities through philanthropy and volunteerism.

Our HR Technology and Operations (HRTO)team oversees the global HR technology strategy and portfolio and provides people analytics, HR shared services, and other operational support and enablement across the enterprise. This is a critical leadership position within the HRTO organization. This leader will be responsible for the global HR technology strategy, manage the HR technology portfolio, and supervise a sizable team to ensure successful delivery of enterprise level HR technology, operational excellence, and optimal employee experience.

Are you a people leader in the Technology space? Bring your knowledge of HR platforms and ability to influence teams to our HR organization. Join the Lilly family today!

Responsibilities:

Lead the HR technology strategy, portfolio, and roadmap to enable HR processes and support critical business outcomes, continuously driving innovation, standardization, automation/self-service, compliance, and improved employee experience through technology solutions

Oversee the development and governance of the technology portfolio, understanding and assessing needs and opportunities across functional areas; make prioritization and investment recommendations to senior HR leadership

Supervise and develop the HRTO team (n~13) including the Chief Architect, functional product owners, and Security and Compliance lead. Appropriately coordinate team priorities and workload across new releases/implementations, ongoing support and ad hoc initiatives in areas such as M&A and compliance.

Actively engage and collaborate with HR leadership and other key partners to assess needs, effectiveness and opportunities associated with HR technology, with solid focus on the AI and automation agenda.

Act as senior relationship owner with Workday and other suppliers/ partners, overseeing vendor performance and contract management in collaboration with procurement

Serve as senior system owner of Workday and other HR technologies, ensuring appropriate governance of HR systems and compliance with data privacy and other legal requirements

Ensure optimization and adoption of HR technologies through ongoing and effective application support and release management, including OCM, training and other end-user support.

Partner with HR IT, vendors, and HR Technology and Operations team members to ensure effective integration across technology and other operational capabilities including downstream HR data consumption, analytics, HR Shared Services, enterprise portal, etc.

Actively engage with Workday Community and other external sources to build knowledge and influence emerging and best practices in HR technology

Define expectations and standards and develop and complete appropriate operational metrics to assess effectiveness of HR technology and team

Basic Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree in business, Human Resources, Information Systems or related field

5 years’ experience with HR technology

Supervisory 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/Preferences

Strong people management and development skills

Experience building and leading teams from strategy to operational execution

3 years of Workday and/or other HCM technology experience

3 years of HR operations and/or HR COE experience

Experience managing global/enterprise-level programs, projects, and changes

Excellent skills in communication and relationship management; experience influencing at all levels of the organization

Extensive knowledge of internal HR processes and external best practices

In depth understanding of HR Technology environment and evolving trends

Strong analytical, problem-solving and decision-making skills

Proficient project management and HR business process improvement and redesign skills

Six Sigma experience

Ability to focus on diverse end-user experience; strong knowledge of organizational change principles and methodologies

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