Sr. Director - Global Diagnostics Partnerships

Position Overview

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• Job Type: Full time
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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.

Organization Overview: 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 you also can count on us to develop creative solutions to support communities through philanthropy and volunteerism.

Role Overview: The Sr. Director, Global Diagnostics Partnerships will leverage their deep diagnostic partnering knowledge to create clear strategic plans for innovative partnerships for Lilly to advance patient identification goals. In addition, this incumbent will provide expertise across business units in a rapidly evolving global diagnostic partnership ecosystem to support key markets in initiative creation and prioritization, supporting innovation and launch readiness for biomarker-directed medicines.

Responsibilities

• Deliver strategic guidance to cross-functional partners and business units as the global central expert on diagnostic partners (e.g., lab & kit providers).
• Identify and create new opportunities for partnerships in order to advance Lilly’s patient identification goals across therapeutic areas.
• Own and cultivate relationships with key US & OUS national reference labs and diagnostic providers and facilitate leadership exchanges between companies, as appropriate.
• Develop novel partnership models and shared learnings internally to improve our innovation and launch readiness across business units.
• Develop and support the execution of lab/IVD partnership strategies.
• Define new and simplified internal processes to enhance alignment with global diagnostic strategy and Lilly processes (i.e. commercial collaboration agreements, statements of work, etc.).
• Oversee global partnerships and ensure compliance and effectiveness.
• Function as the “face of Lilly” to global diagnostic partners on behalf of commercialization teams.
• Support sourcing, strategic alignment on acquisition, (with commercial, legal, compliance, business insights and analytics etc.), and ongoing impact measurement of diagnostic data purchases.
• Maintain up-to-date knowledge of the rapidly evolving precision medicine and diagnostic partnership landscape.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree
• Minimum of 4 years relevant experience working in Business Development and/or partnership function within diagnostics industry.
• Qualified applicants must be authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis. Lilly will not provide support for or sponsor work authorization and/or visas for this role.

Preferred Qualifications

• 6+ years relevant diagnostic partnership experience.
• Advanced degree (e.g. Ph.D. or MS/MBA).
• Deep understanding of, and strong network within, diagnostic ecosystem.
• Strong ability to network across the diagnostic industry.

Additional Skills and Preferences

• Outcomes Focus: Demonstrated both a bias for action and focus on results.
• Problem Solving: Demonstrated ability to appropriately diagnose business problems and create and implement appropriate solutions.
• Measurement Orientation: Demonstrated ability and propensity to use data, measurement and analytics to diagnose problems and to evaluate the actual effect of changes implemented.
• Deep curiosity and drive to solve complex problems and create impactful solutions.
• Teamwork orientation, interpersonal astuteness, and able to work with others.