Matt Watkins

About Matt Watkins

I thrive as a coaching leader who inspires my team in their professional growth, a transformational leader who focuses on continuous improvement and stretching teammates beyond just meeting expectations, and a servant leader who actively listens and empathizes during discussions while striving to influence team decisions through consensus.Additionally, I have leveraged my skill in emotional intelligence most effectively during collaboration in matrix-structured teams. I am keenly self-aware of other\'s emotions as well as able to self-regulate my own emotions in imminent conflict situations.I thoroughly love projects that require me to be super creative in deriving a compressed project schedule. I am a master at planning, achieving stakeholder buy-in, and superlative at risk mitigation. I love when projects have a high level of collaboration with senior leadership and the solution being delivered is a gamechanger for the Client in terms of enhancing the business operations, reducing overall operational spend, and cutting waste. I really enjoy projects that challenge my analytical and problem-solving skills as well as one\'s that require high level of engagement to succeed.

Experience

1. Senior Director, Clinical Supply Strategy

   Eli Lilly and Company

   Apr 2025 — Present · Indianapolis, IN, US

Education

• DePauw University

  Bachelor's degree, Chemistry

  1992 — 1996

• Purdue University Daniels School of Business

  Master of Business Administration - MBA, Global Supply Chain, Leadership

  2021

Skills

• Software Project Management
• Business Process
• Change Control
• Process Improvement
• Cross-Functional Team Leadership
• Business Process Improvement
• Vendor Management
• Change Management
• Six Sigma
• Quality Control
• Pmp
• Leadership