Thought Leader Liaison - Retina, Lilly Regenerative Medicine

Lilly • Indianapolis, IN

9d • $154,500 - $248,600 • Remote

About The Position

The Thought Leader Liaison (TLL), Retina is a field-based commercial strategist and trusted advisor who embeds the voice of retina specialists and thought leaders into Lilly's commercial decisions for the retina portfolio — beginning with wet age-related macular degeneration (wet AMD) and extending to additional retina assets as the pipeline matures. The TLL translates external expert and market perspective into strategic direction across brand planning, launch readiness, and access strategy. This role sits within the Commercial Lilly Regenerative Medicine organization.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree
• 5+ years of ophthalmology or retina experience with specific experience in commercial, marketing, or sales strongly preferred.
• Valid driver's license and acceptable driving record.
• Ability to travel approximately 50%.

Nice To Haves

• Advanced degree (MBA, MPH, or related).
• Prior TLL, marketing, or launch experience in retina/ophthalmology or another specialty market.
• Established relationships with deep retina/ophthalmology expertise and credibility with a strong understanding of the disease state, treatment landscape, emerging science, clinical data and evolving standard of care.
• Solid understanding of the US payer and reimbursement landscape for retina therapies (e.g., site-of-care, buy-and-bill dynamics).
• Strong communication, influence, and cross-functional collaboration skills

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain relationships with emerging and existing KOLs to support insights generation on topics relevant to commercial strategy, including but not limited to healthcare system dynamics and payer policies impacting practice decision making and patient access.
• Conduct regular field-based engagements to gather practice-level, competitive, and market-access insights to understand their priorities and role(s) within the broader retina community, and then develop individualized engagement plans.
• Synthesize insights into structured input for brand and franchise business planning.
• Partner with the LRM commercial team to translate KOL and market insight into strategy, messaging, and launch planning.
• Track and report on evolving site-of-care, reimbursement, and payer-policy dynamics affecting retina practice patterns.
• Support pre-launch and launch readiness for wet AMD and, in the future, for pipeline retina assets.
• Represent Lilly at priority retina congresses and conferences; coordinate a cross-functional approach to deliver a post-meeting synthesis of the competitive and scientific landscape.
• Maintain a current view of current and emerging retina thought leaders and evolving standards of care, e.g., by attending podium presentations, scientific sessions, and external forums to understand emerging data, competitive developments, and evolving physician perspectives to inform commercial strategy.
• Partner cross-functionally with Medical, Market Access, Marketing, Corporate Affairs, Operations and Compliance to ensure aligned, compliant engagement.
• Complete required training; adhere to all compliance, legal, and regulatory guidelines governing commercial-KOL interactions.

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