Associate Director - Health Outcomes Liaison - Cardiometabolic Health and Neuroscience, Allegheny

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.

Purpose:

The Health Outcomes Liaison (HOL) team serves as the medical and health economic and outcomes research (HEOR) interface between Lilly and U.S. population-based decision makers (PBDMs) including payers, health systems, research institutions, and policy makers. The HOL role provides answers to customer questions with clinical evidence, HEOR, and real-world evidence (RWE) to support formulary access and pathways/guidelines decisions impacting millions of patients. The HOL is acutely attuned to therapeutic evidence gaps, understands environmental trends, and anticipates stakeholder evidence needs. The HOL role is a key component of meeting customer needs and improving patient outcomes for Lilly.

Primary Responsibilities:

Customer Support

• Independently cultivate and manage relationships with PBDMs, acting as the primary point of contact and collaborating closely with other field roles to ensure a cohesive and aligned approach to stakeholder engagement

• Proactively deliver and leverage scientific and value evidence to build and sustain engaging, long-term relationships with PBDMs, ensuring their needs are met across the portfolio

• Synthesize, communicate, and translate complex information packages and/or data into transparent, relevant, objective, and actionable evidence to support informed decision-making related to formulary access and pathways / guideline decisions across portfolio

• Develop and execute medical/scientific and value strategy collaborating with internal and field-based medical and commercial partners to deliver exceptional customer experiences

• Provide deep medical /value expertise tailored to the needs of PBDMs including opportunities for clinical optimization or collaboration on medical topics

• Proactively utilize and tailor new relevant content to strategically meet and anticipate PBDMs medical and value needs, demonstrating expert knowledge on the latest trends and population health data to enhance decision-making and foster continuous collaboration

Evidentiary Support & Innovative Collaborations

• Develop and maintain deep knowledge of clinical, analytic, environmental, and account-level considerations to facilitate mutually beneficial collaborations from a medical lens

• Identify opportunities to create evidence and drive improved patient outcomes across healthcare systems & payer/PBM network

• Frequently share customer insights, evidence gaps, environmental trends, and stakeholder evidence needs internally to influence evidence generation, dissemination, and asset strategy

• Support in developing account engagement plan, providing appropriate input on scientific and value topics 

• Build proactive, medical/scientific and value relationships that lead to innovative collaborations

US Healthcare System & Environmental Expertise

• Maintain deep content knowledge regarding therapeutic drug classes, clinical/disease state information, Pharmacoeconomics/health outcomes, formulary management, technology assessment/value frameworks, quality measures, health policy expertise along with the ability to utilize available research, and to synthesize, communicate and translate relevant evidence.

• Stay abreast of emerging science, environmental trends, healthcare policy, and regulatory actions relevant to US population-based decision-makers

• Serve as a knowledgeable resource for customers and internal partners on a broad set of medical topics, including relevant disease states and therapeutic landscapes, HEOR and RWE, value-based care, the payer perspective, and value assessment in the US

Minimum Qualification Requirements:

• Advanced degree (PharmD, MD, PhD, MS, MSN, MPH) in a scientific or health related field with relevant experience in health science or health outcomes OR Bachelor’s degree in a scientific or health related field along with 5+ years of experience in health science or health outcomes

• Qualified applicants must be authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis