Senior/Executive Director Global Medical Affairs - Breast Franchise

Primary Responsibilities

• Provide expert medical and scientific support to all aspects of the business, to ultimately improve outcomes for those with cancer.
• Leverage deep scientific and clinical expertise to formulate meaningful and compelling clinical and scientific narratives, engage with external stakeholders, and identify evidence gaps that inform strategic priorities.
• Formulate and execute meaningful scientific/clinical narratives and key messages for assets and develop and lead the supporting evidence generation plans to close gaps, both pre and post launch.
• Develop comprehensive, cross-functionally aligned launch readiness strategies in preparation for market approvals.
• Engage external stakeholders including KOLs, investigators, and scientific communities to build awareness, understanding, and enthusiasm for the molecule and the program.
• Represent the organization as a credible scientific voice at external meetings, congresses, and with professional societies.
• Translate complex scientific data into clear, persuasive narratives for diverse audiences.

Key Competencies for Success in This Role

• Leadership & Strategic Execution:
• Demonstrated track record of leading and developing high-performing teams (experience managing 3-4+ direct reports preferred)
• Proven ability to translate strategic vision into actionable plans with measurable outcomes and drive consistent implementation
• Strong project management oversight with track record of delivering against timelines and objectives
• Experience leading cross-functional initiatives from conception through successful execution

• Treatment Area, Product Expertise and Strategy Development:
• Breast cancer tumor expertise strongly preferred
• Pre-launch experience highly valued, including disease education, clinical trial awareness, and product positioning activities

• External Engagement & Scientific Communication:
• Exceptional scientific communication skills with demonstrated ability to engage and influence external stakeholders including KOLs, investigators, and scientific communities
• Build awareness, understanding and enthusiasm for the molecule and the program through data generation, education and external engagement, with a track record of successful thought leader engagement and advisory board leadership
• Represent the organization as a credible scientific voice at external meetings, congresses, and with professional societies
• Translate complex scientific data into clear, persuasive narratives for diverse audiences

General Responsibilities

• Lead and develop a team of 3-4 medical affairs professionals, providing strategic direction, mentorship, and performance management.
• Foster a collaborative team environment that drives execution excellence and professional growth.
• Effectively partner internally and externally to execute medical priorities.
• Work seamlessly across the enterprise to effectively lead cross-functional initiatives.
• Adapt quickly with the ever-changing clinical landscape and/or program priorities.
• Effectively communicate up, down, and across the organization, and externally with scientific community and thought leaders.
• Shape breast cancer strategy and execution plans across the US and rest of the world.

Environmental Insights and Customer Engagement

• Understand and anticipate the scientific information needs of customers (oncologists, payers, patients, health care providers).
• Engage external customers through 1:1s, advisory boards, and congress-related activities.
• Build, cultivate, and serve as primary scientific liaison with key oncology thought leaders, delivering persuasive, scientifically-grounded communications that shape clinical opinion and support disease/product awareness.
• Contribute to the development of medical strategies to support pre- and post-commercialization activities by working closely with the Global Medical Affairs, clinical development and brand teams.
• Identify and deliver solutions to close oncology clinical care gaps.
• Support internal field training of medical and commercial personnel.
• Develop and maintain appropriate collaborations and relationships with relevant professional societies.
• Stay on the cutting edge of emerging data/science sharing key trends and data that could inform strategy.

Evidence Generation Identification and Action

• Identify evidence gaps and develop evidence generation proposals to address such.
• Drive scientific disclosure strategy and plans.
• Actively address customer questions in a timely fashion by leading data analyses and new clinical or health outcomes research efforts.
• Lead the medical affairs efforts related to Innovation Readiness to shape the therapeutic landscape and clinical practice environment in preparation for Lilly's pipeline innovations, ensuring the field is primed for adoption.
• Collaborate with clinical development to inform drug development plans and clinical trials.
• Participate in investigator identification and selection, in conjunction with clinical development teams.
• Support the acceleration of clinical trial enrollment through messaging, strategies and tactics to support clinical trial awareness and overcome barriers and through significant investigator/site engagement.
• Build awareness, understanding and enthusiasm for the molecule and the program through data generation, education and external engagement.
• Inform collaborative and investigator-initiated research (IIR) plan and publications, as requested.

Scientific Data Dissemination/Exchange

• Understand and actively address the scientific information needs of external customers in accordance with global procedures.
• Analyze, interpret, and translate scientific data in order to generate scientific disclosures.
• Support medical education initiatives including congress symposia, CME, and omnichannel education.
• Review and inform medical letters, slide decks, and other medical information materials.
• Play a leadership role in the generation of external disclosures (abstracts, posters, manuscripts).
• Collaborate with clinical development to support global regulatory requests (data generation, analysis, or dissemination).
• Offer scientific and creative input to contribute to the development, review, and approval of promotional materials for the commercial brand team.
• Generate and deliver medical and disease state educational solutions.