Sr. Principal Associate – Quality Advanced Analytics and AI

Location: Indianapolis
Posted on: June 23, 2025

Job Description:

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. Responsibilities: The Sr. Principal Associate – Quality Advanced Analytics and AI is responsible for identifying needs, developing projects and executing AI and automation builds to accelerate the quality transformation including assessing, piloting and implementing use of Artificial Intelligence and other advanced analytics, upskilling the quality workforce, and maximizing the business impact and value of these tools. The lead owns the strategy for education, integrating quality related digitalization initiatives, stewarding prioritization, funding and partnering with Tech@Lilly resources on delivery. This role will partner with Quality Management System (QMS) transformation teams but focus principally on other Digital and AI integration projects. The Sr. Principal Associate ensures foundational quality data is appropriately governed, managed to ensure advanced analytics can be utilized and meets data integrity expectations. This position is responsible for leading implementation of solutions that are novel and innovative, providing technology co-pilots through automated approaches (e.g., automated categorizations, recurrence checks, generative AI, anomaly detection). The lead partners with organizations globally to deploy technology solutions to achieve quality operational excellence and drive quality culture. Develop a general AI education/awareness strategy for Global Quality, in conjunction with Tech@Lilly digital upskill activities, to ensure understanding of what is AI, provide AI case studies from industry to address quality use cases, AI benefits, how AI can support better quality decision making and signal detection. Work with SMEs across quality to ensure AI and digitalization projects are integrated and not overlapping or duplicative and results are available for quality decision making. Support the development and submission of AI project ideas to the Tech@ Lilly planning process. Act as Business Lead to ensure prioritized AI projects are on track to meet targeted delivery dates. Work at the right balance of having an understanding of quality processes and principles but also technical depth in automation and AI to ensure projects are scoped in detail as they are submitted for consideration. Work with Tech@Lilly and external partners to develop, prove the concept, refine, and implement the use of advanced analytics for prioritized quality opportunities. Partner with and Quality L&D to ensure training programs are developed for the use of the quality advanced analytics Partner with Data Integrity team to ensure data governance expectations are appropriately implemented, enabling advanced analytics. Drive solutions to improve processes for consistent quality data capture. Partner to develop and improve data models across global quality applications. Work across organizations and functions to establish effective partnerships and processes for digitalization. Establish and report metrics to demonstrate the delivery of value to the enterprise. Basic Requirements: BS, MS, or PhD in a field of science, engineering, pharmacy, or medicine. Demonstrated experience in IT solution delivery and support, ideally digitalization or AI applications. 5 years of demonstrated experience in the pharmaceutical industry or health authority in areas of cGMPs/cGxP’s and quality systems. Additional Skills/Preferences: Broad knowledge of quality related IT applications across Lilly. Demonstrated leadership acumen, including project leadership. Demonstrated ability to build and maintain collaborative relationships with stakeholders; navigate complex issues and find common ground with multiple constituencies. Strong collaboration, negotiation, problem solving, and interpersonal skills. Proven record of finding solutions with adaptable, flexible, and open-minded approach. Demonstrated ability to write technical documents, develop business presentations, and effectively communicate the concepts to a wide range of personnel. Additional Information: Ability to travel up to 10 %. Position is located at Lilly Corporate Center in Indianapolis, IN or another Lilly site and is not approved for remote work. This role requires onsite presence with the ability to work from home 4 days per month. Lilly is dedicated to helping individuals with disabilities to actively engage in the workforce, ensuring equal opportunities when vying for positions. If you require accommodation to submit a resume for a position at Lilly, please complete the accommodation request form ( https://careers.lilly.com/us/en/workplace-accommodation ) for further assistance. Please note this is for individuals to request an accommodation as part of the application process and any other correspondence will not receive a response. Lilly is proud to be an EEO Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of age, race, color, religion, gender identity, sex, gender expression, sexual orientation, genetic information, ancestry, national origin, protected veteran status, disability, or any other legally protected status. Our employee resource groups (ERGs) offer strong support networks for their members and are open to all employees. Our current groups include: Africa, Middle East, Central Asia Network, Black Employees at Lilly, Chinese Culture Network, Japanese International Leadership Network (JILN), Lilly India Network, Organization of Latinx at Lilly (OLA), PRIDE (LGBTQ Allies), Veterans Leadership Network (VLN), Women’s Initiative for Leading at Lilly (WILL), enAble (for people with disabilities). Learn more about all of our groups. Actual compensation will depend on a candidate’s education, experience, skills, and geographic location. The anticipated wage for this position is $111,000 - $162,800 Full-time equivalent employees also will be eligible for a company bonus (depending, in part, on company and individual performance). In addition, Lilly offers a comprehensive benefit program to eligible employees, including eligibility to participate in a company-sponsored 401(k); pension; vacation benefits; eligibility for medical, dental, vision and prescription drug benefits; flexible benefits (e.g., healthcare and/or dependent day care flexible spending accounts); life insurance and death benefits; certain time off and leave of absence benefits; and well-being benefits (e.g., employee assistance program, fitness benefits, and employee clubs and activities).Lilly reserves the right to amend, modify, or terminate its compensation and benefit programs in its sole discretion and Lilly’s compensation practices and guidelines will apply regarding the details of any promotion or transfer of Lilly employees. WeAreLilly

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