Senior Director - US CV Advocacy & Professional Relations

Sr. Director - Corporate Affairs : U.S. CV Advocacy & Professional Relations

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.

Corporate Affairs aims to be the global catalyst for change in Cardiometabolic Health by shaping policy and environments, building partnerships, and mobilizing advocacy and evidence-based tools to expand access and prepare systems for innovative medicines.

As a core contributor to the Corporate Affairs mission, Advocacy and Professional Relations team members build patient-centric partnerships that position Lilly as a partner of choice for delivering improved outcomes for people living with cardiometabolic disorders. They advance Lilly's CMH innovation readiness priorities and serve as critical business partners to cross-functional colleagues across CMH and the enterprise in support of our CMH vision.

A core emerging focus of the CMH business unit is reducing cardiovascular deaths through our current and growing pipeline of Cardiovascular (CV) medicines. This position will be critical to growing and strengthening our relationship with CV groups in the U.S. to improve patient outcome and policy in this therapeutic area.

The position will report to the Vice President of CMH Corporate Affairs and will be part of the Cardiometabolic Health Business Unit Corporate Affairs team.

The Senior Director, U.S. CV Advocacy and Professional Affairs, will support Lilly's goals to accelerate the reach and scale of our CMH CV portfolio by managing assigned patient advocacy customers and their associated collaborations, sponsorships and memberships. They will collaborate with CMH cross-functional colleagues to advance innovation readiness strategic initiatives to support the launch of key late phase programs, line extensions and other pipeline assets in the CV space. The senior director will work cross-functionally across marketing, medical affairs, communications, global public policy, government affairs, clinical development and development in support of CMH corporate affairs and advocacy objectives.

They will provide support for initiatives and projects that align with business priorities, including but not limited to managing Lilly's corporate relationship with major US CV organizations, customer visits, Lilly-sponsored customer events, meetings and congresses, communications campaigns, coalitions and the fulfillment of sponsorship and membership benefits.

Primary responsibilities include :

• Build and sustain relationships with key CV patient advocacy and professional groups, including identifying partnership opportunities and advocating for programs and policies in support of the CMH portfolio.
• Represent Lilly mission and values through customer engagements (e.g. congresses, events, meetings)
• Execute memberships, sponsorships, and partnerships to grow brand equity and strengthen relationships, ensuring commitments and benefits are fulfilled.
• Work with members of the CMH corporate affairs team and in partnership with cross-functional colleagues to :

Address barriers to access through external relationships and collaborations

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Location : Indianapolis, IN or Remote considered