Senior Advisor- R&D

At Elanco (NYSE: ELAN) – it all starts with animals! As a global leader in animal health, we are dedicated to innovation and delivering products and services to prevent and treat disease in farm animals and pets. At Elanco, we are driven by our vision of Food and Companionship Enriching Life and our purpose – all to Go Beyond for Animals, Customers, Society and Our People.

At Elanco, we pride ourselves on fostering a diverse and inclusive work environment. We believe that diversity is the driving force behind innovation, creativity, and overall business success. Here, you’ll be part of a company that values and champions new ways of thinking, work with dynamic individuals, and acquire new skills and experiences that will propel your career to new heights.

Making animals’ lives better makes life better – join our team today!

As a Senior Advisor, Vaccine Discovery Project Leadership – Farm Animal R&D, you will be accountable for driving novel vaccine and infectious disease projects from Idea through Hit/Lead and Lead/Candidate, using both internal and external resources. You will identify approaches to apply transformative technologies to address infectious disease in novel ways in the veterinary industry. You will work closely with laboratory-based colleagues to ensure internal scientific execution aligns with infectious disease farm animal target product profiles, while being responsible for strategic oversight of our Discovery .

You will collaborate closely with R&D peers, External Innovation colleagues, Innovation Marketing, and Commercial leaders to identify and advance new Infectious Disease innovation opportunities aligned with Elanco’s global strategy, while ensuring project execution through the Discovery phase. Additionally, this role offers the opportunity to follow Discovery phase projects into Late Research and Full Development. Taken together, you will be a key leader in influencing and Leading Elanco’s Discovery Vaccine strategy.

• Act as Discovery Project Leader for a portfolio of Farm Animal Infectious Disease projects, coordinating and defining technical plans, leading cross-functional project team meetings, assembling project budgets, and providing governance forum updates
• With Discovery Research peers, collaboratively design and assemble molecular vaccine concepts to address key infectious disease target product profiles in swine, poultry and ruminant indications
• Collaborate with laboratory scientists to ensure timely and quality execution of vaccine construct design and characterization, bioanalytical methods, and potency assays
• Work closely with Clinical Development colleagues to design and execute proof of principle serology and challenge model studies to confirm safety and efficacy of novel vaccine candidates.
• Collaborate with Antibody Discovery, Functional Immunology, and AI/ML colleagues to enable Reverse Vaccinology 2.0/3.0 discovery approaches for antigen identification and vaccine design
• Work closely with External Innovation colleagues to review asset, platform, and capability opportunities from external sources, including defining an academic partner strategy in the Infectious Disease space
• Influence the assessment of novel infectious disease technologies, including vaccine platforms, delivery technologies, antigen identification and validation
• Define optimized project plans for projects including internal/external resource needs for R&D and manufacturing, development costs, cost of goods and margin.
• Collaborate effectively and timely communicate with functional SMEs to plan and execute projects.
• Set clear goals and objectives for the project team members, hold self and others accountable.
• Positively influence, foster creativity, and…