Associate Director - Business Development Operations

At Lilly, the work is demanding because patients are waiting. We unite caring with discovery to help make life better for people around the world, knowing that every decision, every detail, and every day matters. Headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana, our over 50,000 employees around the globe take on complex challenges to discover and deliver life-changing medicines, strengthen how health is understood and managed, and support the communities we serve.

This is hard, urgent, selfless work-but it's work worth doing. If you're driven by purpose and ready to bring your best to work that truly matters for patients, we invite you to join us.

** Organization Overview:*
* External innovation is a critical element of our R&D engine and has enabled more than half of Lilly's NME launches since 2014. As we continue to accelerate our external innovation engine, Business Development will play an even greater role in the overall success of Lilly. The Associate
- Business Development Operations and Intelligence, will work within the operations team to ensure the Business Development teams are operating efficiently and swiftly. The position will engage across the entirety of the responsibility of BD operations including information systems management, reporting and analysis, business process improvement, right-to-operate activities, as well as leading the Lilly Bengaluru BD Operations team.

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* Location:

Indianapolis, IN - hybrid

Responsibilities:

Support of Business Development Information Solutions and Processes:

+ Support the global external innovation team (Asia, Europe, US) by helping to manage CRM and SharePoint repositories including access requests, training, and daily management of information. Position will require ability to support users globally across all business hours to ensure continuity of business across geographies and time zones.

+ Work within the team to identify business process improvements with a focus on utilization of automation and artificial intelligence capabilities that increase efficiency, integrity and usability of information.  Work across global team to ensure systems provide adequate support for all relevant business processes.

Lilly Bengaluru Operations Team Management:

+ Provide direction and accountability of ~4-6 individuals at Lilly Bengaluru. Set aggressive but achievable team goals that deliver impact on the broader BD operations team initiatives.  Mentor the local team leader to prioritize and deliver projects and work outputs.

+ Provide mentorship and guidance to foster career growth and development. Assist Bengaluru site leadership with performance management activities through feedback on team performance.

Report Management and Authorship:

+ Work within the BD operations and intelligence team by supporting routine reporting of information to ensure business continuity in the areas we support.

+ Continue to develop and refine reports/information with automation technologies and proactively determining what next level analysis will push the business forward.

+ Align with the team in support of real-time dashboards to inform leadership of activities as well as to enable teams to manage WIP.

Business Process Improvement:

+ Work within the corporate business development team to identify areas for business process improvement, and determine the best implementation strategy, utilizing technology to drive implementation of solutions.

+ Be a catalyst for integration of technologies including Claude, Co-pilot, and other AI and Tech@lilly solutions within the external innovation ecosystem.
Must be able to understand capabilities as well as limitations of current technologies and work to facilitate cutting-edge solutions that provide Lilly CBD a distinct advantage over our large pharma peers.

Right to Operate activities:

+ Work within the team to support right to operate activities including; procurement, conference congress strategy development and execution, Power Automate / Power Apps workflow authorship and maintenance, distribution list ownership and maintenance, and Employee onboarding activities.

+ Ensure broad compliance across external innovation to global procedures and expectations including;
Global Record Retention Schedule, Protect Lilly, Insider trader training, Partner confidentiality training and management.

+ Drive information management best practices within the operations team as well as in the broader External Innovation ecosystem.

Skills/Preferences:

Leadership

+ Consistent demonstration of the Lilly…