Senior Medical Director – Accelerated R&D Leadership Program

Lilly • Indianapolis, IN

32d • $219,000 - $321,200 • Onsite

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.

Lilly is pursuing physicians and scientists who are innovative thinkers and have an entrepreneurial mindset. Lilly's Accelerated R&D Leadership Program will enable you to have meaningful experiences across the drug development-continuum. You'll work across multiple cross-functional areas to make meaningful strategic and innovative contributions while building strong connections across Lilly. As a program participant, we will invest in your development as a leader within Lilly – a leading medicine company -and in leading others to prepare you for future leadership opportunities that provide enterprise-wide influence and the ability to deliver on important business objectives.

In this program, you will not only learn, develop and grow as an influential R&D leader, but you will also have the opportunity to deliver meaningful results through challenging, business-critical projects and assignments spanning across multiple functions.

This program is designed to provide you with Senior Leadership mentorship, peer coaching, leadership development training, and experiences in key areas of drug development over a two-year period. Participants will rotate and build expertise in a wide range of functions spanning biopharmaceutical drug development, portfolio strategy, and commercialization.

Across all rotations, participants are expected to leverage AI-powered tools and platforms to enhance decision-making, improve operational efficiency, and generate novel insights. This includes working with generative AI applications, predictive modeling outputs, and AI-enabled data analysis in partnership with Lilly's data science teams.

With regular access to coaching and mentorship from top Lilly leaders, upon completion of this program you may pursue a variety of key R&D leadership roles within Lilly.

Requirements

• Highly motivated and driven physician/scientist leaders with a passion for combining the science of medicine with business strategy and innovation.
• Individuals with integrity, excellence, and respect for people.
• Individuals who want to expand their ability to make a difference in someone else's life.
• Leaders who embrace emerging technologies as tools to accelerate scientific discovery and improve patient outcomes.
• Broad work experience that includes 3–5 years in any of the following: Clinical, Academic or research, Consulting firm, Venture capital and/or small bio-tech.
• Medical Doctor must be board eligible or certified in a medical specialty relevant to the role or have completed the comparable level of post-medical school clinical training relevant to the country of hiring.
• U.S. trained physicians must have achieved board eligibility or certification.
• Foreign medical graduates in U.S. based jobs, who are not U.S. board eligible or certified may be hired directly for employment in the U.S. at the discretion of the Chief Medical Officer.
• Non-U.S. trained physicians must have completed education and training at a medical school that meets the requirements of the Liaison Committee on Medical Education (LCME).

Nice To Haves

• MBA or non-MBA with experiences in VC, consulting, small biotech, drug development, investment banking.
• Unique and ambitious business leadership.
• Entrepreneurial mindset and innovative thinker.
• Demonstrated leadership.
• Strong learning agility, including ability to create and implement new ideas.
• Track record of significant contributions to the advancement of science (through publication record, etc.).
• Familiarity with AI/ML concepts and their application in drug development or clinical research.

Responsibilities

• Enable meaningful experiences across the drug development-continuum.
• Work across multiple cross-functional areas to make meaningful strategic and innovative contributions.
• Build strong connections across Lilly.
• Invest in development as a leader within Lilly and in leading others for future leadership opportunities.
• Deliver meaningful results through challenging, business-critical projects and assignments spanning across multiple functions.
• Rotate and build expertise in a wide range of functions spanning biopharmaceutical drug development, portfolio strategy, and commercialization.
• Leverage AI-powered tools and platforms to enhance decision-making, improve operational efficiency, and generate novel insights.
• Work with generative AI applications, predictive modeling outputs, and AI-enabled data analysis in partnership with Lilly's data science teams.
• Pursue key R&D leadership roles within Lilly upon completion of the program.

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: Senior