Senior Director, Business Insights & Analytics, Medical Affairs

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.

Senior Director – Business Insights & Analytics, Medical Affairs, will be part of a growing and dynamic team of analytics professionals whose main goal is to help our business partners achieve their goals through data analytics enablement. The position will bring to bear understanding of various LillyUSA, Global & Medical Affairs (GMAO) specific data sources in order to lead execution of critical analyses and to communicate key outputs to decision makers. This analytics leader will ensure business decisions are backed by data driven insights for the Medical Affairs organization.

The Senior Director is the single point of contact for Medical Affairs analytics focused on specific Business Units or Cross BU level analytics needs. The position will be responsible for partnering and collaborating across a wide group of multi-functional partners across internal business partners (GMAO, Business Unit Medical Affairs, Tech@Lilly, etc) in addition to external business partners ( ZS, IQVIA, etc).

You will play a leadership role in developing execution plans for the prioritized analytics workstreams, in conjunction with LCCI teammates focused on Medical Affairs. They will closely partner and collaborate to ensure the broader team is aligned with key execution priorities and is able to meet (and exceed) our business partners’ expectations for delivery of high quality analytic results.

This role reports to Associate Vice President, Business Insights & Analytics – Medical Affairs.

Responsibilities:

Advance Analytics Capability within Medical Affairs Function

• Develop deep understanding of Medical Affairs strategy, goals, challenges and critical objectives (across GMAO & BU Medical Affairs) to ensure analytics deliverables are aligned to the broader strategy
• Collaborate with Medical Affairs colleagues in developing the analytics strategy, aligned to GMAO & BI&A Roadmaps, with the objective of fostering data-driven decision-making in Medical Affairs
• Provide end to end oversight and leadership on analytics delivery, including collaboration with cross functional partners to deliver on project goals that align to core Medical Affairs objectives
• Translate analytics outcomes into business insights to guide business decisions
• Articulate analytics value proposition to partners and identify novel analytics use case opportunities
• Partner across BI&A to align on best way to communicate sophisticated models and technical processes in an easily digestible format and create organizational consensus for recommendations
• Enable proper use across the overall analytics portfolio for Medical Affairs by bringing the appropriate technical personnel and leadership to the table
• Lead a wide variety of team members and multi-functional teammates as a part of a highly matrixed organization
• Clearly articulate analytics needs into technical requirements for data engineering, Tech@Lilly and other cross functional partners. Ensure consistency in analytics methodology, business rules and data definitions for all Medical Affairs analytics models
• Build and maintain testing frameworks and embed a testing culture that rapidly tests, measures, and iterates
• Efficiently and effectively lead team in US and in partnership with LCCI team Leader to create a highly effective analytics delivery model. Provide dotted-line supervision and project oversight for LCCI teammates, in partnership with LCCI Team Leader
• Serve as a player and a coach in the delivery of Medical Analytics
• Develop a pipeline of analytics talent and leadership and supply to an inclusive community of analytics expert practitioners
• Identify, drive, and support initiatives to automate or otherwise make more efficient our existing analytical processes
• Evolve and systematize analytical processes supporting Medical Affairs initiatives
• Ensure alignment to Medical Affairs principles and guidelines for data and analytics that were developed in collaboration with GMAO, BI&A, Legal & Ethics & Compliance

Basic Qualifications :

• Bachelor’s Degree with 3+ years of relevant experience leading an analytical function
• Qualified candidates must be legally authorized to be em