Sr. Director - Global Diagnostics Pathways and Policy

Company Overview

• Company Name: Lilly
• Headquarters: Indianapolis, Indiana
• Mission: To unite caring with discovery to make life better for people around the world.
• Focus: Discovering and bringing life-changing medicines, improving disease understanding and management, and giving back to communities.
• Values: Giving best effort, putting people first, and a determination to make life better globally.

Position Overview

• Location Type: Not Specified
• Job Type: Full time
• Salary: Not Specified

The Sr. Director - Global Diagnostics Pathways & Policy will be responsible for developing strategic plans to address patient access and affordability barriers to diagnostic testing. This role requires up-to-date knowledge of the global diagnostic coverage and reimbursement ecosystem to support key markets in initiative creation and prioritization, ultimately supporting innovation and launch readiness for biomarker-directed medicines.

Responsibilities

• Act as a central expert on diagnostic coverage and affordability across business units and global teams.
• Deliver global strategies to improve diagnostic access and remove affordability barriers.
• Strategically guide and oversee all company-sponsored testing activities.
• Integrate diagnostic pathway and policy insights into launch readiness planning.
• Identify and outline early diagnostic coverage and affordability issues for pipeline assets to support New Product Planning.
• Consult on Lilly-sponsored research and studies to overcome evidence and confidence barriers for diagnostic pathways as part of integrated evidence generation planning.
• Monitor and provide insights on the global policy, Payer, HTA, and health economic landscape to understand drivers and barriers to appropriate diagnostic testing across various therapy areas and key markets.
• Ensure diagnostic access, affordability, and policy insights are captured in primary market research and measurement.
• Own oversight of the global policy, Payer, HTA, and health economic landscape for potential access drivers and barriers to appropriate diagnostic testing.
• Develop expertise and share insights with cross-functional business partners on macro trends in the diagnostic pathway landscape (e.g., coverage policies, market trends, HTA decisions, health economic studies).
• Measure and evaluate global key performance initiatives to assess the success of diagnostic pathway initiatives for innovation and launch readiness.
• Collaborate with LVA teams and Corporate and Government Affairs partners to provide diagnostic policy advisory across the enterprise.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree
• Minimum of 4 years of relevant experience in market access and/or policy within the diagnostics space.
• 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.

Application Instructions

• Lilly encourages employees to view and apply to open roles posted in the internal job posting system.
• Employees must meet the minimum qualifications outlined in the job description and have/obtain work authorization in the country the position is to be considered.
• The current supervisor will be notified upon application. Employees are encouraged to discuss the opportunity with their supervisor prior to applying.