Senior Director, Global Data Storytelling Communications

Key Objectives / Deliverables

• Own the overarching data narrative for Lilly's R&D pipeline across Lilly therapeutic areas, ensuring every data readout, congress disclosure, and publication reinforces the enterprise science story.
• Establish and maintain a consistent data release playbook across TAs so that quality, ambition, and voice are uniform regardless of therapeutic area.
• Serve as a trusted strategic partner to LRL and our TA teams, providing communications counsel that shapes how Lilly's science is understood by investors, media, policymakers, and the scientific community.
• Prepare senior leaders for high-stakes engagements including major data landmarks, major congresses, and media interactions.

Data, Congress and Publications Strategy

• Help build the enterprise congress strategy, ensuring Lilly's scientific presence at major medical meetings is coordinated, high-impact, and reflects a unified Lilly point of view.
• Support our TA publications strategies in partnership with medical affairs and TA leads, ensuring relevant peer-reviewed data supports the broader corporate narrative.

Team Leadership and Talent Development

• Lead, mentor, and develop a team. Set the operating standards, cultural tone, and performance expectations for the pillar.
• Recruit and retain communicators who combine scientific proficiency with strategic ambition and creative instinct.

Cross-Pillar and Enterprise Integration

• Coordinate closely with the Global Consumer Science Communications and Emerging + Portfolio Scientific Communications pillars to ensure data narratives flow into consumer-facing storytelling, executive presentations, and enterprise reputation strategy.
• Partner with Issues Management, Investor Relations, Business Development Communications, and Public Affairs to align messaging across collaborator audiences.

Media Strategy and Storytelling

• Develop and implement proactive media strategy for pipeline landmarks, ensuring Lilly's scientific leadership is reflected in priority media coverage.
• Build relationships with key science and health journalists.
• Ensure data communications drive narrative penetration, share of scientific voice, and positive-to-neutral sentiment.