Associate Director – Global Thought Leader/External Engagement

Responsibilities

• Define, maintain, and evolve global Thought Leader External Engagement (TLEE) process standards and operational guidance.
• Harmonize end-to-end workflows for thought leader identification, planning, engagement, and evaluation across Global, IBU, and Affiliate teams.
• Design and continuously improve the global TLEE quality framework to ensure inspection readiness and documentation integrity.
• Serve as a compliance enablement lead by partnering with Ethics & Compliance, Legal, Privacy, and Quality teams to mitigate risk.
• Establish governance models, including decision rights, RACI frameworks, and escalation paths.
• Operationalize standards through global training strategies, including train-the-trainer models and toolkits.
• Drive adoption and continuous improvement by leveraging operational signals, quality indicators, and stakeholder feedback.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree.
• Minimum 5 years of experience in Global Medical Affairs, Marketing, External Engagement, Quality, Compliance, or enterprise capability leadership.
• Authorization to work in the United States on a full-time basis (sponsorship is not provided).

Preferred Qualifications

• Demonstrated experience defining global process standards, playbooks, quality frameworks, and governance models.
• Proven ability to influence across functions, levels, and geographies without direct line authority.
• Experience partnering with Ethics & Compliance, Legal, Privacy, and Quality teams.
• Experience developing and deploying global training or train-the-trainer models.
• Strong systems thinking, change management, and stakeholder engagement capabilities.
• Experience operating in complex, global matrix organizations.

About the Company

Eli Lilly and Company is a global healthcare leader dedicated to discovering and bringing life-changing medicines to patients around the world. Headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana, Lilly unites caring with discovery to improve patient outcomes and advance science.