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.
The LCCI commercial – strategy and operations director role provide leadership, management, and vision necessary to facilitate transformation and execution across LCCI Commercial Services supporting Accelerating Reach and Scale (ARS) as a part of the Global Customer Office and supporting launches for LUSA, adhering to the U.S. Playbook to prioritize and simplify work. This will include supporting the leader with effective decision-making, project management, and execution of strategic initiatives across all capabilities of commercial services at LCCI. The individual is also responsible for streamlining high-importance projects and conducting leadership level internal and external initiatives that have significant impact on the function’s business objectives.
Primary Responsibilities:
Responsibilities:
Strategic Leadership
- Spearhead and lead development, communication and implementation of transformation and strategic planning to deliver on business goal and objectives.
- Build and own metrics and accountability platform, evaluating progress regularly with leadership team to achieve their deliverable and win for the organization.
- Prepare and drive quarterly business reviews for reviewing key performance indicators of the function
- Review Internal and External Communications: drafting company newsletters, reports, pitch decks, speeches or presentations that support awareness and connectivity through LCCI Commercial
- Align the LCCI Commercial Services culture strategy and objectives to the Team Lilly framework, including wellbeing, engagement, recognition, diversity and inclusion, and employee experience.
Operational Management
- Deeply integrated within LCCI Commercial teams and assess issues that serve as barriers to a team or organization operating at maximum effectiveness.
- Drive operational excellence by taking on critical initiatives related to driving business priorities and accountability, and developing a strong leadership team:Project management - Overseeing large cross-functional organization-wide projects or initiatives; bring together multiple stakeholders and help drive decisions.
- Meeting preparation- Managing the meeting cadence for leadership team, ensuring materials are sent in advance, time is well spent, objectives and follow-up are achieved; planning and leading functional retreats and other special events.
- Drive the LCCI Commercial People agenda through assist in identifying expertise needed and hiring of key personnel: Incorporating skill/experiences need in job descriptions
Cross-functional Relationship Building
- Build connections with commercial leadership team and others across the organization to influence outcomes, enable team success and foster long-term partnerships that are critical to organizational success.
- Promote shared consciousness and information flow: Acting as a key enabler to ensure the right stakeholders included at the right time and equipped with the right information for decision making
Lead/Influence/Partner
- Exemplify Team Lilly behaviors: Include, Innovate, Accelerate, Deliver in internal and external interactions
- Model the innovation and leadership behaviors and operational excellence attributes as defined for Global Commercial Services
- Participate in forums that share information across Commercial services components and other Lilly teams and business partners
- Constructively challenge teams to reach the best solutions to opportunities and issues
- Create and lead in an environment that encourages open discussions on ideas and issues to achieve a robust outcome on business decisions
- Serve as a mentor for team members within and outside commercial services as needed
- Promote a culture that fosters innovation and seeks to continually improve commercial excellence and operational excellence
Minimum Qualification Requirements:
- Post graduate degree (MBA/MSc/MPharm) or adequate professional experience to meet above deliverables
- Min 10 years of experience in the pharmaceutical industry with experience in commercial
- Strong business acumen with demonstrated success in business transformation
- Strong understanding of affiliate business environment
- Demonstrated leadership skills and effectiveness in the areas of influence, team leadership, articulating and taking a position, negotiation, and conflict resolution
- Effective team building capabilities
Other Information/Additional Preferences:
- Six Sigma experience
- Project management experience
- Knowledge of pharma commercial capabilities
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