IT Business Analyst - Manufacturing Execution System (MES)

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 35,000 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.

Build your career at Lilly working with business partners, engineering, and infrastructure teams to design and build recipes and application integrations to meet business objectives.

The RTP IT team is actively looking for an MES Analyst to join our growing team. On the team you will play a meaningful role in developing business requirements, configuring, testing, installing, and maintaining all changes to the MES application supporting a new manufacturing facility.

What You’ll Be Doing:

You will work as a key member of multi-functional project team to implement the MES application. This will require close collaboration with IT, manufacturing operations, and engineering to translate functional requirements into technical requirements, resolve complicated issues, and maintain ongoing operation of the system.

How You’ll Succeed:

• Building on your existing technical knowledge of IT systems, you'll become an expert in MES technology and its integration with other IT and automation solutions.
• After gathering business requirements, you will configure and test production procedures that enable manufacturing operations.
• You will provide mentorship and support to MES end users, including diagnosing and resolving issues.
• You will write and execute computer system validation deliverables including specifications, validation plans, test scripts, and reports.

What You Should Bring:

• Demonstrable experience on manufacturing sites, in particular in manufacturing operations or warehouse logistics with presence on the floor.
• Experience working on global teams across organizational levels with the ability to collaborate across a diverse, multi-functional team.
• Understanding of MES systems including configuration, integration with other solutions, and how MES is used to support the business process.
• Effective written and verbal communication, technical analysis, problem solving, and investigative skills.
• Willingness and ability to learn quickly on the job.
• Initiative to seek out information and develop solutions in a start-up environment.

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or related technical field

Or

• High School Diploma/GED with demonstrated experience as a business analyst

Qualified candidates must be legally authorized to be employed in the United States. Lilly does not anticipate providing sponsorship for employment visa status (e.g., H-1B or TN status) for this employment position.

About the Organization:

Lilly IT builds and maintains capabilities using innovative technologies like most prominent tech companies. What differentiates Lilly IT is that we create new possibilities through tech to advance our purpose – creating medicines that make life better for people around the world, like data driven drug discovery and connected clinical trials. We hire the best technology professionals from a variety of backgrounds, so they can bring an assortment of knowledge, skills, and diverse thinking to deliver innovative solutions in every area of our business.

The Manufacturing and Quality IT team uses technology and analytics to transform and scale manufacturing to the digital plant of the future and support manufacturing operational excellence and productivity. This team helps produce medicines using machine learning and robotic capabilities with some of the most sophisticated manufacturing technologies and rigorous quality standards.

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