Associate Vice President, External Innovation - Immunology

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.

** Purpose*
* External Innovation is a critical growth lever for Lilly's portfolio strategy and long-term company success. The identification, rigorous evaluation, and disciplined advancement of external opportunities represent a substantial and growing investment across the enterprise - one that materially shapes Lilly's ability to deliver breakthrough medicines to patients.

The AVP, External Innovation, Immunology owns external innovation strategy across the full Immunology portfolio - covering all indications of interest within Immunology, plus accountability for whitespace and adjacency expansion in immunology-related areas. This role sets external innovation strategy with senior management, supervises and leads partnering projects end-to-end from opportunity identification through deal completion, ensures timely execution of the external innovation agenda for Immunology, as evidenced by high value deals and significant portfolio impact, and may originate new strategic areas for Lilly.

This role will be an active driver of the Immunology portfolio, and will be the single point of contact with Corporate Business Development (CBD), Business Unit, and other senior Lilly Research Labs leadership for Immunology External Innovation activities. This role also leads and develops the broader External Innovation team for Immunology. This role requires strong technical/scientific judgment, genuine business acumen, ability to lead people and portfolio, and the ability to set and influence strategy at the most senior levels of the company.

** Key Responsibilities*
* This role's responsibilities center on three core areas - Search, Evaluate, and Advance our portfolios through external innovation and collaboration - together with leadership responsibility for the broader Immunology External Innovation team.

+ Cover all indications of interest within Immunology, including accountability for whitespace and adjacency development in immunology-related areas. Infectious Disease is not in scope for this role.

+ Own and develop therapeutic area (TA) external portfolio and innovation strategy for Immunology - originating new areas and interacting independently with senior management and a broad range of stakeholders (e.g. TA scientific leaders, New Product Planning/Commercial, PRA, Finance, Corporate Business Development, Catalyze
360) to combine deep scientific knowledge with strategic insight.

+ Own delivery of external innovation priorities and deals for Immunology. Stay at the forefront of external innovation and bring new approaches into Lilly.

+ Help define and frame landscapes; build the investment thesis and necessary concept sheets, competitive frame, and go/no-go criteria from scratch.

+ Identify and search external innovation and/or collaboration opportunities including but not limited to portfolios and platforms; identify partners and lead early assessment of opportunities and triage.

+ Lead and be responsible for initial technical evaluations, including leveraging TA-specific and cross-functional expertise where appropriate. Own in-depth scientific due diligence…