Senior Director, Public Affairs

Eli Lilly • Washington, DC

111d • $165,000 - $242,000

About The Position

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. The Sr. Director, Public Affairs is a critical member of the Global Corporate Communications team and will work in a cross-functional environment with Global Public Policy (GPP), Legal, Federal Government Affairs (FGA), Value and Access (LVA) and therapeutics area leads. The focus of this role is to deploy communications strategies to craft a policy environment at the federal level that promotes Lilly policy objectives. The ideal candidate will have experience crafting and launching public affairs campaigns that include media strategy, partner engagement, external mobilization, paid media and digital/social amplification. Outstanding writing skills and pharmaceutical industry knowledge are a must. This position will report into the Associate Vice President, Public Affairs with dotted lines to the Senior Vice President and Head of Global Public Policy and the Vice President and Head of U.S. Public Policy.

Requirements

• Brings a strong policy mindset with ability to understand complex regulatory and legislative issues.
• Proven creative and strategic communications skill.
• Understanding of biopharmaceutical industry, supply chain dynamics, public policies impacting industry and partner/advocacy landscape.
• Corporate external communications, public affairs and partner engagement experience.
• Understanding of if/when/how to use Lilly's thought leadership to advance policy objectives.
• Experience deploying media strategies and shown success interacting with reporters.
• Ability to work quickly and with effectively in a prompt manner.
• Experience collaborating with cross-functional teams across a matrixed organization, establishing strong working relationships.
• Superb verbal and written communication skills.
• Strong critical thinking and problem-solving skills.
• Highly organized, problem solver with capability to lead multiple tasks.
• Ability to be a flexible teammate, act quickly and meet due dates with the highest ethical and business standards.
• Professional presence capable of handling ad-hoc issues, performing with a sense of immediacy.
• Meticulous attention to detail, with ability to grasp and focus on the big picture.
• Project management capabilities that include process development and improvement, communications of standard processes, and measurement.

Nice To Haves

• Shown ability in leading, running and coordinating large cross-functions and sophisticated results; ability to influence without authority; ability to develop collaborations and good working relationships to secure teamwork across all functions.
• Previous experience with or knowledge of drug development and commercialization.
• Strong critical thinking skills with the ability to lead strategy projects, engage others and translate strategy into implementation tactics and capabilities.
• Established capability to influence others and lead without authority.
• Excellent communication and relationship-building skills across functional and geographic boundaries as well as across, up, and down the interpersonal ladder.
• Experience working with professional, advocacy, communications outlets or similar collaborators.

Responsibilities

• Drive high-stakes public affairs campaigns in coordination with Policy, Legal, Government Affairs, Regulatory Affairs and other corporate affairs teams.
• Develop rapid response and amplification systems that can be leveraged across issues.
• Build relationships with relevant third parties (patient advocacy, consumer groups, think tanks) who are engaged in debates relevant to Lilly, in coordination with the Advocacy team.
• Deploy bold communications strategies to shape environment favorable to achieving policy and regulatory goals.
• Partner with Corporate Communications Issues Management team to inform them on policy issues and objectives.
• Provide strategic communications counsel to business partners.
• Coordinate with industry associations' public affairs teams (e.g., PhRMA, BIO) as needed.
• Engage with the different corporate functions on communication strategies and tactics, which may encompass earned and paid media, digital and social media amplification, internal communications, advocacy groups, speaking engagements for Lilly executives, and events or briefings.
• Stay on top of the evolving policy landscape in terms of drug pricing, intellectual property, patient affordability, reimbursement and innovation.
• Develop proactive and reactive message documents, including talking points, standby statements, press release and FAQs.
• Develop advocacy communications materials, including issue backgrounders, fact sheets, op-eds and partner letters.
• Drive media strategy and build relationships with key policy media.
• Work jointly with business partners to lead media inquiries and partner with extended communications team on story prospects.
• Evaluate and recommend fresh perspectives to drive Lilly's voice externally.
• Partner with and provide direction to external agencies and vendors, as needed.
• Flex to support other areas of the team, as needed.

Benefits

• 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: Senior
• Industry: Chemical Manufacturing
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree