Associate Director- US Consumer Creative & Advertising -Zepbound

Location: Indianapolis

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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.

We are excited to announce an opportunity to join the Central Marketing Team – Consumer while dedicated to elevating U.S. consumer advertising campaign creative excellence for Lilly medicine brands. With a mission to inspire and empower people to take charge of their health, our goal is to deliver best‑in‑any‑class creative innovation and excellence in advertising and creative, ensuring that our campaigns not only resonate with audiences but also drive meaningful change in the world of healthcare.

The U.S. Consumer Creative & Advertising Associate Director is charged with delivering creative excellence by crafting novel, human‑centric consumer campaigns that reinforce consumer trust in Lilly and the value of its medicines. This role helps to lead, shape, plan, and implement paid, earned, shared and owned channel‑integrated U.S. Consumer Branded Creative Campaigns and assets that help deliver against priority Therapeutic Area consumer business objectives and fit within a cohesive campaign strategy relative to co‑existing Lilly Masterbrand and Disease State Education initiatives.

The role is focused on developing campaigns that leverage a variety of channels, including video/film, audio, and out‑of‑home (OOH) advertising and inclusive of shared media. This position may operate in agile teams, with alignment to specific brands, therapeutic areas or capabilities teams, adjusting based on business needs. Responsibilities

• Ensure comprehensive understanding of target patients, insights, strategic imperatives, competitive landscape, and KPIs.
• Partner with market research and testing (qualitative and quantitative) as needed to ensure the viability of creative campaigns with consumers.
• Manage agency development process of creative platforms/campaigns/programs and campaign expressions (including Celebrity and/or Social Influencer talent), that deliver on the TA creative brief; confirm creative briefs with TA leads.
• Ensure creative channel extensions (e.g. OOH, Partnerships, etc.) are embedded into final creative recommendation; partner with fellow Central Marketing Team – Consumer and Integrated Agency Team (IAT) teams to ensure tight creative development and execution plans.
• Drive Creative Campaign and Program development and execution plans with the primary AOR within the IAT planning model.
• Ensure cross‑cultural marketing insights and other GCO consumer capabilities are infused into creative platforms, campaigns or programs, as relevant.
• Partner with creative agencies on creative and production bidding process, ensuring alignment with campaign objectives and budgetary constraints.

Campaign Execution

• Lead execution of creative campaign development process to achieve annual business goals and Therapeutic Area KPIs.
• Integrate Paid, Earned, Shared, and Owned media recommendations into creative concepts and marketing plans.
• Ensure tactics are driven by consumer insights and data, aligned with Therapeutic Area and brand objectives.
• Foster productive relationships with creative agencies and external vendors to deliver compelling, right‑sized campaigns; ensure appropriate integration and coordination across internal and external partners to deliver campaigns as planned.
• Uphold Lilly Masterbrand and U.S. Consumer creative standards, ensuring regulatory compliance throughout production.
• Handle the pre‑bid, casting, wardrobe, location scouting, social media content bring together, stills/shot list, and other pre‑production, production, and post‑production processes for and with…