Associate Director - Business Development Operations

Eli Lilly and Company • Us, IN

5d • Hybrid

About The Position

At Lilly, the work is demanding because patients are waiting. We unite caring with discovery to help make life better for people around the world, knowing that every decision, every detail, and every day matters. Headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana, our over 50,000 employees around the globe take on complex challenges to discover and deliver life-changing medicines, strengthen how health is understood and managed, and support the communities we serve. This is hard, urgent, selfless work—but it’s work worth doing. If you’re driven by purpose and ready to bring your best to work that truly matters for patients, we invite you to join us. Organization Overview: External innovation is a critical element of our R&D engine and has enabled more than half of Lilly’s NME launches since 2014. As we continue to accelerate our external innovation engine, Business Development will play an even greater role in the overall success of Lilly. The Associate- Business Development Operations and Intelligence, will work within the operations team to ensure the Business Development teams are operating efficiently and swiftly. The position will engage across the entirety of the responsibility of BD operations including information systems management, reporting and analysis, business process improvement, right-to-operate activities, as well as leading the Lilly Bengaluru BD Operations team.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in a scientific or medical related field
• Minimum 7 years of experience in the pharmaceutical, biotech industry or academia research
• 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 visas for this role, including but not limited to F-1 CPT, F-1 OPT, F-1 STEM OPT,J-1, H-1B, TN, O-1, E-3, H-1B1, or L-1.

Nice To Haves

• Leadership Consistent demonstration of the Lilly leadership behaviors related to the associate director level.
• Established credibility and trust across all business partners
• Exhibit a strong passion for pharmaceutical innovation
• Excellent self-management and organizational skills
• Strong collaboration skills with colleagues at all levels
• Business Acumen and Expertise
• Strong learning agility
• Strong and independent project management capabilities.
• General understanding of external innovation processes and business development activities.
• Strong communication and presentation skills with the ability to make the complex simple, and maturity to interact at all levels, including senior executives
• Must be able to create and maintain reports and presentations that are professional and requisite of senior leadership needs
• A strong sense of pride in work and attention to detail
• General understanding of the design, development and implementation of IT systems to support multiple integrated teams
• Experience with AI systems (Claude, Co-pilot, Cortex), and prompt engineering capabilities
• Knowledge of database architecture and design.
• 2 years' experience in Business Development and Innovation within pharma / biotech

Responsibilities

• Support the global external innovation team (Asia, Europe, US) by helping to manage CRM and SharePoint repositories including access requests, training, and daily management of information.
• Support users globally across all business hours to ensure continuity of business across geographies and time zones.
• Identify business process improvements with a focus on utilization of automation and artificial intelligence capabilities that increase efficiency, integrity and usability of information.
• Ensure systems provide adequate support for all relevant business processes.
• Provide direction and accountability of ~4-6 individuals at Lilly Bengaluru.
• Set aggressive but achievable team goals that deliver impact on the broader BD operations team initiatives.
• Mentor the local team leader to prioritize and deliver projects and work outputs.
• Provide mentorship and guidance to foster career growth and development.
• Assist Bengaluru site leadership with performance management activities through feedback on team performance.
• Support routine reporting of information to ensure business continuity in the areas we support.
• Develop and refine reports/information with automation technologies and proactively determining what next level analysis will push the business forward.
• Support real-time dashboards to inform leadership of activities as well as to enable teams to manage WIP.
• Identify areas for business process improvement, and determine the best implementation strategy, utilizing technology to drive implementation of solutions.
• Be a catalyst for integration of technologies including Claude, Co-pilot, and other AI and Tech@lilly solutions within the external innovation ecosystem.
• Facilitate cutting-edge solutions that provide Lilly CBD a distinct advantage over our large pharma peers.
• Support right to operate activities including; procurement, conference congress strategy development and execution, Power Automate / PowerApps workflow authorship and maintenance, distribution list ownership and maintenance, and Employee onboarding activities.
• Ensure broad compliance across external innovation to global procedures and expectations including; Global Record Retention Schedule, Protect Lilly, Insider trader training, Partner confidentiality training and management.
• Drive information management best practices within the operations team as well as in the broader External Innovation ecosystem.

Benefits

• company bonus (depending, in part, on company and individual performance)
• 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
• well-being benefits (e.g., employee assistance program, fitness benefits, and employee clubs and activities)

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager