Senior Medical Director – Accelerated R&D Leadership Program

Responsibilities

Are you seeking a career where your passion for medicine or scientific discovery positions you to lead teams delivering new medicines to patients around the world? Lilly is pursuing physicians and scientists who are innovative thinkers and have an entrepreneurial mindset. Lilly's Accelerated R&D Leadership Program will enable you to have meaningful experiences across the drug development-continuum. You'll work across multiple cross-functional areas to make meaningful strategic and innovative contributions while building strong connections across Lilly.

As a program participant, we will invest in your development as a leader within Lilly – a leading medicine company – and in leading others to prepare you for future leadership opportunities that provide enterprise-wide influence and the ability to deliver on important business objectives. Sound interesting to you? Read on for additional benefits of the accelerated R&D leadership program:

• A Purposeful Career — bringing together people who discover and deliver life-changing medicines that improve peoples' lives around the world
• An Opportunity for Growth — providing opportunities for you to develop and advance professionally, including building fluency in emerging AI-enabled drug development tools and platforms
• An Inclusive Culture — committed to uniting individuals across cultures, and developing a comfortable, connected environment that values diverse thought

Qualifications

In this program, you will not only learn, develop and grow as an influential R&D leader, but you will also have the opportunity to deliver meaningful results through challenging, business-critical projects and assignments spanning across multiple functions. This program is designed to provide you with Senior Leadership mentorship, peer coaching, leadership development training, and experiences in key areas of drug development over a two-year period. Participants will rotate and build expertise in a wide range of functions spanning biopharmaceutical drug development, portfolio strategy, and commercialization. Experiences May Include Business Development, Clinical Pharmacology, Medical Affairs, Global Patient Safety, Regulatory, Decision Sciences, Pricing, Reimbursement & Access, Global Health Outcomes & Real World Evidence, Clinical Development, Clinical Design, New Product Planning, Portfolio Strategy, Program Management, AI Strategy & Innovation.

• Ambitious business leadership
• Entrepreneurial mindset and innovative thinker
• Demonstrated leadership
• Strong learning agility, including ability to create and implement new ideas
• Track record of significant contributions to the advancement of science (through publication record, etc.)
• Familiarity with AI/ML concepts and their application in drug development or clinical research

Basic Qualifications

• Broad work experience that includes 3–5 years in any of the following:
• Clinical
• Academic or research
• Consulting firm
• Venture capital and/or small bio-tech
• Medical Doctor must be board eligible or certified in a medical specialty relevant to the role or have completed the comparable level of post-medical school clinical training relevant to the country of hiring.
• U.S. trained physicians must have achieved board eligibility or certification.
• Foreign medical graduates in U.S. based jobs, who are not U.S. board eligible or certified may be hired directly for employment in the U.S. at the discretion of the Chief Medical Officer.
• Non-U.S. trained physicians must have completed education and training at a medical school that meets the requirements of the Liaison Committee on Medical Education (LCME).
• For the recognized list of foreign medical schools and the disapproved list, see here.