Senior Director, Portfolio Strategy, Analytics & Enablement, Cardiometabolic Research

Eli Lilly and Company • Us, IN

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About The Position

The Portfolio Strategy, Analytics, & Enablement Lead for Cardiometabolic Research (CMR) will help shape and implement CMR’s long-term vision and lead initiatives that promote growth, innovation, and operational excellence. Working closely with the CMR Lead Team, this leader will own the portfolio fact base, assess portfolio health, frame and lead strategic projects, and support improvements to CMR’s communications, culture, and capabilities. The role also supports communication of portfolio status and progress to the broader organization, including senior leadership.

The position leads portfolio strategy projects from initial question framing through analysis, synthesis, and recommendations to the Core Leadership Team. It develops an integrated view of the portfolio across therapeutic pillars, including development stage, modality, target novelty, risk-reward profile, and resource load, and uses that view to assess portfolio health and recommend improvements. The role partners with therapeutic area leaders to keep program strategies and learning plans current, identifies cross-portfolio issues, and translates strategic priorities into plans, metrics, and dashboards. It also tracks relevant competitive, scientific, and regulatory developments and incorporates their implications into portfolio and planning discussions.

For organizational enablement, the role supports CMR communications, including monthly updates to senior leadership and CMR-wide town halls; manages program and change management for CMR-wide capability initiatives; and oversees recurring organizational processes and campaigns, including the President’s Award proposal process.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in a life science, quantitative, or business field.
• At least 6 years of experience in pharmaceutical or biotechnology R&D in roles involving portfolio strategy, portfolio management, decision analytics, or strategy consulting serving those functions.
• Experience leading cross-functional strategy projects from framing through to a leadership decision.

Nice To Haves

• Advanced degree (PhD, PharmD, MS, or MBA).
• Working knowledge of drug discovery and early development in cardiometabolic disease, including diabetes, obesity, cardiovascular disease, and their complications.
• Hands-on portfolio analytics experience, including risk-adjusted valuation, probability of technical success, and resource and scenario modeling.
• Ability to partner with scientists on quantitative work while owning strategic framing.
• Track record of designing metrics and dashboards relied on by senior leaders.
• Ability to draw out diverse opinions in a matrixed organization and synthesize them into recommendations leadership will act on.
• Clear written and spoken communication for scientific and non-scientific audiences, including governance committees.
• Self-motivation, scientific curiosity, an enterprise mentality, and a strong grasp of business concepts.

Responsibilities

• Lead CMR portfolio-level strategy projects from framing the question through analysis, synthesis, and recommendations to the Core Leadership Team; assemble working teams, facilitate discussions, and deliver actionable outputs.
• Develop and maintain an integrated view of the CMR portfolio across therapeutic pillars, including development stage, therapeutic modality, target novelty, risk-reward profile, and resource load.
• Assess portfolio health, characterize risk-reward distribution, project the portfolio’s expected shape as new pillars mature, and recommend improvements.
• Partner with therapeutic area leaders to keep program strategies and learning plans current and surface cross-portfolio issues, including shared scientific risks, resourcing conflicts, and unexplored white space.
• Support long-range planning by translating CMR strategic priorities into plans, metrics, and dashboards for the Core Leadership Team.
• Own metrics and dashboards that track progress against CMR strategic objectives and establish them as a shared reference in leadership discussions.
• Track competitive, scientific, and regulatory developments relevant to cardiometabolic research and bring their implications into portfolio and planning discussions.
• Support CMR organizational communications, including monthly updates to senior leadership and CMR-wide town halls in conjunction with therapeutic area leads.
• Drive program management and change management for CMR-wide capability initiatives.
• Manage recurring organizational processes and campaigns, including the President’s Award proposal process.

Benefits

• Company bonus, dependent in part on company and individual performance.
• Company-sponsored 401(k).
• Pension.
• Vacation benefits.
• Medical, dental, vision, and prescription drug benefits.
• Flexible benefits, including 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, including an employee assistance program, fitness benefits, and employee clubs and activities.

What This Job Offers

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