Senior/Executive Director Global Medical Affairs - Breast Franchise

Lilly • Indianapolis, IN

7d • $198,000 - $356,400 • Remote

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.

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 we also develop creative solutions to support communities through philanthropy and volunteerism.
For more than 50 years, Lilly Oncology has been delivering life-changing medicines and support to people living with cancer and those who care for them. Our oncology global medical affairs team seeks to understand, generate, and share key data, science, and insights in order to deliver improved outcomes for cancer patients. The clinical research physician (CRP) in Lilly Oncology’s Global Medical Affairs organization will help accelerate the impact we can have on patient lives across the globe.
Through the application of scientific and medical training, clinical expertise, and relevant experience, the Global Medical Affairs CRP is an integral member our medical team supporting strategic planning, drug development, and commercialization activities with the goal of improving outcomes for those with cancer.

Requirements

• Medical Doctor or Doctor of Osteopathy.
• Must be board-eligible or certified in appropriate specialty/subspecialty or have completed the comparable level of post-medical school clinical training relevant to the country of hiring.
• US trained physicians must have achieved board eligibility or certification.
• Physicians trained outside the US who are not US board eligible or certified may be hired directly for employment in the US at the discretion of the Chief Medical Officer.
• Must have completed education and training at a medical school that meets the requirements of the Liaison Committee on Medical Education (LCME).
• Fluent in English, verbal and written communication.

Nice To Haves

• Demonstrated track record of leading and developing high-performing teams (experience managing 3-4+ direct reports preferred)
• Breast cancer tumor expertise strongly preferred
• Pre-launch experience highly valued, including disease education, clinical trial awareness, and product positioning activities
• Experience developing comprehensive, cross-functionally aligned launch readiness strategies in preparation for market approvals
• Exceptional scientific communication skills with demonstrated ability to engage and influence external stakeholders including KOLs, investigators, and scientific communities
• Support the acceleration of clinical trial enrollment through messaging, strategies and tactics to support clinical trial awareness and overcome barriers and through significant investigator/site engagement
• Build awareness, understanding and enthusiasm for the molecule and the program through data generation, education and external engagement, with tracking record of successful thought leader engagement and advisory board leadership
• Proven ability to represent the organization as a credible scientific voice at external meetings, congresses, and with professional societies
• Experience translating complex scientific data into clear, persuasive narratives for diverse audiences
• Oncology experience.
• Clinical research or pharmaceutical medicine experience preferred.
• Demonstrated ability to balance scientific priorities with business priorities.
• Demonstrated strong communication, interpersonal, teamwork, organizational and negotiation skills.
• Demonstrated ability to lead, influence, and drive alignment across cross-functional teams and with external stakeholders.
• Knowledge of drug development and/or medical affairs preferred.
• Strong understanding of US and global markets.
• 5+ years of professional experience preferred.

Responsibilities

• Provide expert medical and scientific support to all aspects of the business, to ultimately improve outcomes for those with cancer. This includes support for drugs in development, marketed products, and the disease state.
• Leverage deep scientific and clinical expertise to formulate meaningful and compelling clinical and scientific narratives, engage with external stakeholders, and identify evidence gaps that inform strategic priorities.
• Synthesize insights from the therapeutic landscape and healthcare provider needs to shape the scientific strategy and ensure impactful dissemination of data.
• Lead and develop a team of 3-4 medical affairs professionals, providing strategic direction, mentorship, and performance management.
• Foster a collaborative team environment that drives execution excellence and professional growth.
• Effectively partner internally and externally to execute medical priorities.
• Work seamlessly across the enterprise to effectively lead cross-functional initiatives.
• Adapt quickly with the ever-changing clinical landscape and/or program priorities.
• Effectively communicate up, down, and across the organization, and externally with scientific community and thought leaders.
• Shape breast cancer strategy and execution plans across the US and rest of the world.
• Understand and anticipate the scientific information needs of customers (oncologists, payers, patients, health care providers).
• Engage external customers through 1:1s, advisory boards, and congress-related activities.
• Build, cultivate, and serve as primary scientific liaison with key oncology thought leaders, delivering persuasive, scientifically-grounded communications that shape clinical opinion and support disease/product awareness.
• Contribute to the development of medical strategies to support pre- and post-commercialization activities by working closely with the Global Medical Affairs, clinical development and brand teams.
• Identify and deliver solutions to close oncology clinical care gaps.
• Support internal field training of medical and commercial personnel.
• Develop and maintain appropriate collaborations and relationships with relevant professional societies.
• Stay on the cutting edge of emerging data/science sharing key trends and data that could inform strategy.
• Identify evidence gaps and develop evidence generation proposals to address such.
• Drive scientific disclosure strategy and plans.
• Actively address customer questions in a timely fashion by leading data analyses and new clinical or health outcomes research efforts.
• Lead the medical affairs efforts related to Innovation Readiness to shape the therapeutic landscape and clinical practice environment in preparation for Lilly's pipeline innovations, ensuring the field is primed for adoption.
• Collaborate with clinical development to inform drug development plans and clinical trials.
• Participate in investigator identification and selection, in conjunction with clinical development teams.
• Support the acceleration of clinical trial enrollment through messaging, strategies and tactics to support clinical trial awareness and overcome barriers and through significant investigator/site engagement.
• Build awareness, understanding and enthusiasm for the molecule and the program through data generation, education and external engagement.
• Inform collaborative and investigator-initiated research (IIR) plan and publications, as requested.
• Understand and actively address the scientific information needs of external customers in accordance with global procedures.
• Analyze, interpret, and translate scientific data in order to generate scientific disclosures.
• Support medical education initiatives including congress symposia, CME, and omnichannel education.
• Review and inform medical letters, slide decks, and other medical information materials.
• Play a leadership role in the generation of external disclosures (abstracts, posters, manuscripts).
• Collaborate with clinical development to support global regulatory requests (data generation, analysis, or dissemination).
• Offer scientific and creative input to contribute to the development, review, and approval of promotional materials for the commercial brand team.
• Generate and deliver medical and disease state educational solutions.

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: Senior
• Education Level: Ph.D. or professional degree