Senior Director

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.

Primary Responsibilities:

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Communication and Storytelling:

• Lead the strategic development and execution of congress narratives, ensuring alignment with overarching scientific strategy, cross-functional priorities, and external engagement objectives
• Lead in scientific point of view (POV) content creation for molecules beginning at phase 2, ensuring awareness, coordination, and medical POV integration cross-functionally.
• Drive full picture internal understanding and coordination of holistic scientific disclosure roll-out at key congresses. (e.g. ACC, ADA, EASD, ESC, Obesity Week, ECO, AHA)​
• Collaborate with CMH Strategy and Operations teams to drive integrated engagement, strategic coherence, and effective medical narrative delivery within medical and scientific channels.
• Leverage emerging technologies, including AI-driven content solutions—to enhance message delivery and engagement with healthcare professionals.
• Experience in evaluating and refining internal workflows to improve efficiency, consistency, and cross-functional collaboration.
• Champion process optimization across internal workflows to improve efficiency, consistency, and cross-functional coordination.
• Evaluates and redesigns internal workflows to improve operational consistency and enable seamless cross-functional collaboration; recognized for implementing systems that elevate enterprise-wide coordination.
• Drives efficiency gains by identifying bottlenecks and introducing scalable process improvements that reduce redundancy, accelerate delivery, and boost team productivity.
• Ability to define success metrics and use data to guide iterative improvements in content strategy and execution.

Effective Leadership, Collaboration & Cross-Functional Partnership Competencies:

• Demonstrate a growth mindset in everything you do.
• Embrace and be an ambassador for the accelerate reach and scale transformation, CMH GMA culture commitments, and CMH GMA external engagement strategies.
• Contribute to the development of others by being an active coach and mentor to others within and outside of the department.
• Build critical cross-functional business partner relationships to ensure the organization achieves operational effectiveness, efficiency, and collaboration.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills with proven ability to convey complexity in a simple fashion.
• Ability to conceptualize and implement new storytelling formats that enhance clarity, engagement, and scientific impact.
• Ability to think strategically and broadly, focus on key priorities and translate strategy into action.
• Lead cross-functional change initiatives, driving measurable improvements in processes and outcomes while fostering a culture of continuous learning and innovation.
• Inspire and align teams around a strategic vision, translating complex or abstract ideas into clear direction and shared purpose.
• Strong interpersonal skills and ability to balance the needs of various internal and external parties with flexibility and a steady temperament.

Minimum Qualification Requirements:

• 4-year bachelor’s degree
• 10 + years working in a role in a Medical Affairs, Development, Marketing or Communications function

• 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 Preferences:

• Medical communications agency experience highly preferred
• In-depth knowledge of diabetes, obesity and other cardiometabolic disease states
• Supervisory or team lead experience
• Change-management experience
• Formally or informally, experience leading and managing diverse cross-functional teams and complex deliverables
• Experience working with executive leadership

Additional Information:

• The position requires approximately 10–20% domestic and international travel.
• A flexible schedule is required, including evenings, weekends, and occasional holiday work.
• This is an on-site position based in Indianapolis, Indiana or surrounding suburbs; full-time remote work is not available.
• Lilly is an EEO/Affirmative Action Employer and does not discriminate based on age, race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, protected veteran status, disability, or any other legally protected status.

Personnel Area ID:                     US: Eli Lilly and Company Corporate Center

Country:                                       USA

City:                                              Indianapolis

State/Province:                          Indiana

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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

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.

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