Associate Vice President, DDCS & PRD Computer Simulation & Modeling Sciences Leader

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:*
* At Eli Lilly and Company, we unite caring with discovery to make life better for people around the world. Lilly has led global healthcare for more than 140 years, discovering and developing medicines in a complex, fast-changing industry where innovation is the core advantage. Our employees around the world work as one team to bring breakthrough medicines to the patients who need them.

We're looking for a visionary senior technical leader to help us continue that work.

Delivery, Device, and Connected Solutions (DDCS) is a core scientific and engineering organization within Eli Lilly's Product Research & Development (PRD) organization. DDCS advances innovative drug delivery technologies and patient-centric solutions spanning injection systems, connected devices, novel delivery routes, advanced formulations, and emerging therapeutic modalities.

As Lilly's portfolio continues to expand in complexity and scale, computational modeling, digital engineering, scientific machine learning, and AI-enabled decision support are becoming foundational capabilities for development. The ability to predict performance, understand mechanisms, optimize designs, quantify uncertainty, and accelerate learning across product and process development is increasingly critical to delivering medicines faster and with greater confidence.

To accelerate this transformation, Lilly is establishing the Pan-PRD Modeling Sciences Hub, a strategic capability organization responsible for embedding Modeling Sciences into the way development is performed across DDCS, BRD, and SMDD. The Hub serves as the enterprise focal point for workflow modernization, capability development, reusable modeling platforms, scientific AI integration, talent development, and model-informed decision making.

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* Position Overview:

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* We're seeking an exceptional technical and organizational leader to define and execute Lilly's long-term vision for Modeling Sciences across Product Research & Development. This leader will shape how computational, mechanistic, statistical, and AI-enabled methods are deployed across the development lifecycle, and will lead the transformation toward a future where quantitative models are routinely embedded in development workflows, accelerating critical decisions, reducing uncertainty, and improving patient outcomes.

The leader will own the Modeling Sciences vision, strategy, and enterprise operating model, while preserving a distributed execution model that keeps scientific accountability within the business lines.

This role represents a unique opportunity to shape the future of scientific development at Lilly, from molecule design to drug delivery. The successful candidate will build the foundation for a model-informed, AI-enabled development ecosystem that transforms how products and processes are designed, optimized, and advanced across PRD. Through leadership of the Pan-PRD Modeling Sciences Hub, this individual will help define the next generation of development workflows, accelerate innovation, and create durable competitive advantage for Lilly and the patients we serve.

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* Key Responsibilities:

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* ** _1. Own the Pan-PRD Modeling Sciences Vision and Strategy_*
* + Serve as the enterprise leader for Modeling Sciences across PRD. Define and execute a long-term vision that establishes modeling, simulation, digital engineering, and AI-enabled scientific decision-making as foundational capabilities across development.

+ Align capability investments, talent strategies, governance mechanisms, and technology roadmaps to accelerate portfolio delivery and maximize enterprise value.

+ Lead the organizational and operating-model change needed to embed quantitative sciences into how PRD makes decisions, not just how it executes projects, positioning modeling and AI as a core strategic differentiator for…