Sr. Director - Quality Business Development

Sr. Director - Quality for Business Development

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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 Global Auditing and Compliance (GQAAC) team is a strategic partner, driving Lilly’s ability to expand into new business ventures with confidence and speed. By shaping the selection and adoption of quality oversight models, GQAAC ensures that innovation is built on a foundation of compliance and excellence. Through proactive engagement in quality due diligence, the team accelerates decision‑making and mitigates risk, delivering insights that strengthen acquisitions and partnerships.

This strategic approach positions Lilly for sustainable growth and competitive advantage in a rapidly evolving market.

The position serves as the corporate Quality representative on the Corporate Strategy and Business Development (CSBD) Linkage Hub and is responsible for ensuring proactive networking with Quality Sr. management and executive leadership regarding potential relevant inbound and outbound innovation activities as well as representing Quality in Business Development Contract reviews to ensure the appropriate risk‑based Quality requirements are built into the contracting process.

The Sr. Director will also lead and/or actively manage External Innovation due diligence assessments and GQAAC audits as applicable.

This role oversees Quality activities for both inbound and outbound innovation, which supports an important aspect of enterprise strategy, innovation, and portfolio management. The Sr. Director will work closely with GQAAC Management, and partner with executives, senior management and functional leaders across Lilly Research Laboratories (LRL), Business Units, Product Research & Development (PRD), Procurement, and others.

• Closely partners with other Process Owners, functional leaders, subject matter experts (SMEs), Quality, External Sourcing, Procurement, Compliance and Legal to define applicable compliance and business requirements, and to design efficient and compliant processes that utilize risk management principles.
• Leverages drug development expertise, commercial manufacturing and knowledge of internal and external requirements, industry best practices and benchmarking, new capabilities, and advances in technology including information flow to influence operational strategy and design processes that meet overall GQAAC quality audit and compliance program performance objectives.
• Evolve processes to match the changing business processes to ensure clarity of process inputs, outputs, and dependencies (e.g., connected processes, data standards, information flow implications, etc.), and role accountability for critical steps and decisions.
• Corporate Quality representative on the Corporate Strategy and Business Development (CSBD) Linkage Hub.
• Performs quality system maturity, compliance history and regulatory compliance risk profiles.
• Evaluates comprehensive assessment of potential acquisitions, and licensing opportunities and delivers clear, actionable recommendations to inform deal decisions.
• Provides quality support for each External Innovation due diligence project and coordinate completion and networking of all GCP, GLP and GMP reports to quality management and others as appropriate, including a consolidated quality focused risk summary for the project if necessary.
• Represents quality in kick off and information gathering External Innovation due diligence meetings and represents appropriately networked quality opinions in alignment and integration meetings.
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