Senior Director-MSL-Dermatology East

Primary Responsibilities

• Provide clarity of vision and expectation for MSL Team
  • Coach performance and development of team members
  • Recruit, hire, develop and promote top talent
  • Coach personnel through scheduled interactions (e.g., field visits)
  • Contribute to succession planning and talent development activities
• Personal accountability of team members aligned with performance expectations
  • Partner effectively with internal and external business partners
  • Engage in Regional Health Care Market (RHM) forums
  • Upskill cross-functional teammates to maximize medical-commercial interactions
  • Lead by example
• Field Coaching
  • Plan to meet and exceed field coaching expectations
  • Provide progressive coaching and competency upskilling to MSL team
  • Engage in RHM forums
• People Leadership & Development
  • Develop and coach personnel through scheduled interactions
  • Coach personnel through scheduled interactions (e.g., field visits)
  • Provide both scientific and MSL role-specific coaching and feedback
  • Contribute to succession planning and talent development activities
  • Enable the Field Medical Qualification process
• Strategy Integration & Execution
  • Develop and implement regional field medical strategies
  • Develop field medical business plan
  • Participate in higher-level business planning process
  • Draft, communicate, and implement strategic plans
  • Collaborate and participate in planning activities
  • Support medical affairs staffing at congresses
  • Ensure clinical insights are communicated back into Lilly appropriately
• Operational Excellence
  • Oversee quality, compliance, accountability, and effectiveness of team
  • Partner with business unit, Ethics & Compliance, Legal, Medical Affairs, and Medical Affairs hosted capabilities
  • Drive operational efficiency, consistency and compliance
  • Engage in FMSO, FMSS and relevant GMAO driven forums
  • Ensure alignment and compliance with all applicable policies, laws, regulations, and guidelines
  • Analyze all data on MSL activities to improve MSL performance
  • Manage and monitor all team finance and HR-related issues appropriately
  • Identify and participate in process improvement initiatives

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree
• Minimum 3 years of formal people leadership experience
• Minimum 5 years of industry, clinical and/or medical experience

Additional Preferences

• Masters in health sciences (e.g., RN, RPh, PA, NP)
• Advanced degree (e.g., PharmD, M.D., Ph.D.) in a medically related field
• Prior experience with scientific or field strategy, demonstrating strong business acumen, broad strategic thinking, operational and execution excellence
• Demonstrated learning agility for acquiring scientific and technical knowledge
• Demonstrated ability to provide effective feedback on the quality of verbal and written technical communications and documentation by personnel and provide direction to technical coaches and team
• Demonstrated leadership and the ability to achieve results through people
• Significant experience in motivating people, creating positive team experiences, and coaching/developing technical personnel
• Demonstrated ability to partner, influence, and work successfully within and across BUs, functions, and across levels of leadership
• Strong interpersonal skills and relevant experience in building professional relationships and networking
• Effective verbal and written communication skills
• Demonstrated ability to work in a fast-paced environment and ability to incorporate new learning into real time solutions (agile, adaptable, results orientated)
• Demonstrated decision making ability to problem solve and develop and apply creative solutions and implement those decisions effectively