[Hiring] Senior Director, Portfolio Strategy, Analytics & Enablement @Lilly

Role Description

The Portfolio Strategy, Analytics, & Enablement Lead for Cardiometabolic Research (CMR) will play a critical role in shaping & implementing CMR’s long-term vision, and will drive high-impact initiatives that foster growth, innovation, and operational excellence. As a strategic leader with vision, this individual will develop and implement initiatives that align therapeutic areas & cross-functional teams, ensuring seamless execution of organizational priorities while anticipating and responding to industry trends. Partnering closely with the CMR Lead Team (LT), they will own the portfolio fact base, regularly assess portfolio health, frame and run priority strategic projects, and support initiatives to improve communications, culture, and capabilities across CMR. This individual will also support efforts to communicate CMR portfolio status and progress across the broader organization, including to senior leadership.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead portfolio-level strategy projects for CMR from the initial framing of the question through analysis, synthesis, and a recommendation to the Core Leadership Team.
• Develop & maintain an integrated view of the CMR portfolio across therapeutic pillars, covering development stage, therapeutic modality, target novelty, risk-reward profile, and resource load.
• Partner with therapeutic area leaders to keep program strategies and learning plans current, and surface cross-portfolio issues such as shared scientific risks, resourcing conflicts, and unexplored white space.
• Support the long-range planning cycle by translating CMR strategic priorities into plans, metrics, and dashboards.
• Own the metrics and dashboards that track progress against CMR strategic objectives.
• Track the external landscape relevant to cardiometabolic research, including competitive, scientific, and regulatory developments.
• Support CMR's organizational communications, including monthly CMR updates to senior leadership.
• Drive program management and change management for CMR-wide capability initiatives.
• Manage recurring organizational processes and campaigns, including the President's Award proposal process.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a life science, quantitative, or business field.
• 6+ years of experience in pharmaceutical or biotechnology R&D with roles involving portfolio strategy, portfolio management, decision analytics, or strategy consulting.
• Experience leading cross-functional strategy projects from framing through to a leadership decision.

Requirements

• An advanced degree (PhD, PharmD, MS, or MBA).
• Working knowledge of drug discovery and early development in cardiometabolic disease (diabetes, obesity, cardiovascular disease, and their complications).
• Hands-on experience with portfolio analytics, including risk-adjusted valuation, probability of technical success, and resource and scenario modeling.
• A track record of designing metrics and dashboards that senior leaders rely on.
• The ability to draw out diverse opinions in a matrixed organization and synthesize them into a recommendation that leadership will act on.
• Clear written and spoken communication to scientific and non-scientific audiences.
• A self-motivated individual who combines scientific curiosity with an enterprise mentality and a strong grasp of business concepts.

Benefits

• Eligibility to participate in a company-sponsored 401(k); pension.
• Vacation benefits.
• Eligibility for medical, dental, vision and prescription drug benefits.
• Flexible benefits (e.g., healthcare and/or dependent day care flexible spending accounts).
• Life insurance and death benefits.
• Certain time off and leave of absence benefits.
• Well-being benefits (e.g., employee assistance program, fitness benefits, and employee clubs and activities).