Sr. Director - Strategic Alliances (SMDD)

Eli Lilly and Company • Indianapolis, IN

115d • $151,500 - $222,200

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. At Lilly, we serve an extraordinary purpose. For nearly 150 years we have worked tirelessly to discover medicines that make life better. These discoveries start in Lilly Research Laboratories, where our scientists work to create new medicines that will help solve our world’s greatest health challenges. In Product Research and Development (PRD), we transform molecules into medicines. Our portfolio of medicines is growing and is one of the most diverse and promising pipelines in the industry. PRD has aggressive goals to transition novel therapies from ideas into medicines that provide fundamental health outcomes using novel technologies, innovative business relationships, and world class systems. The Senior Director, Strategic Alliances position seeks a collaborative, inclusive, energetic leader who will define and lead activities with external synthetic CMC collaborations. This role will require significant CMC knowledge, creativity, resilience, and business acumen. The position will work cross-functionally within PRD and across our external network to ensure appropriate capabilities, adequate capacity, and agility that adapt to an ever-evolving global landscape. This position will provide leadership with strategic external partners to advance Lilly’s Synthetic Molecule Design and Development (SMDD) need for drug substance and drug product development, characterization, and supply of material for toxicology and clinical trials. The Senior Director role will be critical to enable SMDD’s strategic goals related to speed, value, and world class execution on a multifaceted portfolio in a dynamic world landscape. The position will accomplish this through a collaborative approach across external partners to enable novel business constructs, solid operational execution, and robust governance processes. The role will be a member of strategic governance with CDMOs. The relationships with these partners will be instrumental to ensure reliable, high-quality supply of information and material for small molecule, peptide, and oligonucleotide assets.

Requirements

• Minimum B.S. (Chemistry / Engineering / Biosciences).
• Minimum 15 years’ CMC experience in pharma with minimum of 5 years’ experience of enabling novel CMC technologies/supply chain via contract manufacturing organizations.

Nice To Haves

• Demonstrated ability to think strategically and solve problems.
• Excellent communication and project management skills, ability to lead and influence others with or without authority.
• Curious, high capacity of absorbing information and demonstrated learning agility.
• Ability to operate effectively in ambiguity.
• Demonstrated ability in operational excellence.
• Strong business acumen.

Responsibilities

• Implement and maintain strategic partnerships: Foster collaboration at external partners for the rapid design and development of drug substance and drug product for pre-clinical/clinical phase assets.
• Ensure Alignment: Work closely with cross-functional leaders across Lilly CMC, Quality, Procurement, and Safety to translate PRD/SMDD strategic requirements into actionable results.
• Drive implementation of novel technology: Integrate with leadership and technical staff at CDMOs to successfully transfer novel SMDD technology for GMP production.
• Champion Operational Excellence: Monitor capacity, quality, and performance in alignment with business contracts and perform trend analysis.
• Relationship Management: Serve as an advocate for partnerships and their objectives, mitigate business risk, and engage in frequent communication to seek feedback from external partners and internal stakeholders.
• Laboratory Informatics: Partner with Tech@Lilly on lab design and data/knowledge capture while assuring alignment with SMDD strategic goals and compliance requirements.

Benefits

• 401(k) plan
• 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: Bachelor's degree
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees