Senior Director – Alliance Management and Transactions (R&D)

Eli Lilly and Company • Us, IN

1d • Onsite

About The Position

At Lilly, we serve an extraordinary purpose. We make a difference for people around the globe by discovering, developing and delivering medicines that help them live longer, healthier, more active lives. Not only do we deliver breakthrough medications, but you also can count on us to develop creative solutions to support communities through philanthropy and volunteerism.

Are you seeking a career that makes a difference in the world? We are seeking an experienced attorney to join our Legal Transactions Center of Excellence at Lilly. We’re interested in a versatile, team-oriented candidate who desires to work in a dynamic environment with broad responsibility and influence. This multidisciplinary position requires that you demonstrate your deep legal and business sense and problem-solving skills, with an understanding of R&D and commercial contracting for the life sciences industry to help advance the development of medicines for patients across the world. This position provides the opportunity to work cross functionally within the legal and business functions, including Alliance Management, R&D, Business Unit Legal, IP, Privacy, Litigation, Compliance, Marketing, Procurement, Investor Relations and Public Affairs.

This position will focus on:

Alliance and Transaction Management: This position will have responsibilities for post-execution management of license, collaboration, M&A and other agreement legal support. The Alliance, Transactions and R&D Legal Counsel and will be a key partner in providing strategic legal and business advice for the Alliance Management function and other functions leading on-going contractual relationships.

R&D and Commercial Transactions: Responsibilities of this role will include preparing, reviewing, and negotiating a wide variety of complex R&D and commercial agreements. This role will also provide counsel in substantive transactional areas. The ideal candidate will have experience negotiating R&D and commercial service agreements, clinical and non-clinical research agreements (e.g., sponsored, collaborative, real world evidence, and quality), as well as partnership agreements, sponsorship agreements, or other transactions involving other healthcare professional/healthcare care institution/academic center or advocacy organization counterparties.

Lilly Research Labs (LRL) Support: This position will provide general legal and contract support for specified LRL therapeutic areas as well as for other LRL projects and workstreams spanning multiple therapeutic areas and/or geographies.

Requirements

• Juris Doctor (J.D.)
• Licensed to practice law in at least one of the 50 States
• Minimum of 7 years of legal experience related to the drafting, review and negotiation of sophisticated transactions either practicing as a member of a law firm in a relevant area of law or practicing at an in-house law department, or a combination of the two.
• 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

• Bachelor's degree in a scientific discipline advantageous.
• Understanding of drug development and pharmaceutical industry experience.
• Demonstrated ability to proactively see opportunities for creative and innovative solutions to transactional issues and process improvements.
• Sound judgement, commitment to ethical conduct and a high level of attention to detail.
• Demonstrated business acumen.
• Ability to effectively prioritize and lead workflows for multiple assignments in parallel.
• Ability to quickly understand and integrate with Lilly Legal and pharmaceutical industry, and ability to absorb complex technical and scientific information on a project-by-project basis.

Responsibilities

• Leading legal aspects of post-execution license, collaboration, M&A and other agreement issues, including but not limited to, governance, milestones/royalties, reporting obligations, dispute resolution, termination, and any other issues that arise over the life cycle of such agreements.
• Identifying and resolving, highly sophisticated legal issues and drafting and negotiating a wide range of R&D and commercial agreements, and, ultimately, driving successful business outcomes in situations of ambiguity.
• Ensuring that agreements are consistent with relevant laws, regulations and guidelines, including but not limited to familiarity with supply chain terms and conditions, terms applicable to good clinical research practices, Anti-Kickback Statute, FCPA, False Claims Act, FDCA and HIPAA.
• Providing clear advice to clients, including legal leadership, ensuring that advice maximizes the potential of our pipeline and commercialized assets.
• Effectively communicating, translating complex technical, performance and legal issues into understandable terms and recommending strategic and sometimes novel solutions.
• Navigating multiple legal disciplines that impact both the R&D and commercial organization.
• Be a proactive self-starter and take ownership of matters and projects.
• Identify legal issues for assigned matters.
• Assist other attorneys and stakeholders in resolving legal issues on cross-functional projects.
• Develop knowledge of business and client concerns.
• Keep abreast of changes in the law.
• Represent Lilly externally to partners, customers, and suppliers.
• Resolve legal issues using negotiation skills and legal expertise.
• Help direct work of outside counsel.

Benefits

• company bonus (depending, in part, on company and individual performance)
• company-sponsored 401(k)
• pension
• vacation benefits
• 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: Director