ICEE PRA Associate Director

Location: Sesto Fiorentino

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.

The Role
The Associate Director Pricing, Reimbursement and Access (PRA) for ICEE supports the Senior Director PRA, ICEE in planning and executing market access initiatives that enable successful launches and sustainable access to Lilly's portfolio across ICEE markets. Working closely with PRA colleagues across the Hub, the role translates Global and International access strategies into practical, market-specific plans.

The Associate Director partners with PRA colleagues to prepare negotiation strategies and business cases for assigned markets and products, bringing insight gathering, scenario planning, and learnings from other markets. The role helps colleagues prepare business cases that clearly reflect the negotiation strategy and set out assumptions, risks, financial impact, and leadership asks, to support timely internal approval.

The role is the link between the International BU (IBU) and local PRA teams, and represents the Hub. The Associate Director maintains an overview of the entire portfolio, summarizing key developments, access status, risks, and opportunities for the Senior Director and IBU. The role also organizes launch-readiness workshops, builds sound pricing, timing, and access assumptions into business plans, shares best practices across markets, monitors changes in healthcare policy and reimbursement, and identifies ways to simplify PRA processes in line with the Accelerate Reach and Scale mindset.

Key Responsibilities

Develop and maintain a thorough knowledge of the payer needs in order to identify and anticipate future payer needs, constraints and requirements that impact the therapeutic area.

Act as therapeutic area expert by understanding the treatment pathways, clinical data package & keep up to date to competitors data & access situation

Work very closely with ICEE affiliates on the preparation of PRA documents & tools to secure fast reimbursement & access

Partner with ICEE affiliates in developing plans to mitigate risk and / or capitalize on opportunities

Partner with ICEE Affiliate PRA Leads in implementing reimbursement & access plans

Share best practices with other affiliates within the Hub and IBU

Act as the point of contact for IBU PRA Team in order to represent ICEE Affiliates National PRA needs

Partner with IBU PRA Team for rollout within the ICEE of the PRA strategy, materials, tools+

Qualifications And Experience

Bachelor's degree required; advanced degree in health economics, pharmacy, life sciences, business, or a related field preferred.

6-8+ years of pharmaceutical experience, including at least 3-4 years in pricing, reimbursement, or market access.

Working knowledge of pricing and reimbursement systems in CEE and/or Israel.

Strong analytical and modeling skills (pricing, budget impact, business cases), with the ability to distill complex negotiation strategies and portfolio developments into clear, concise recommendations for senior leadership.

Strong communication, stakeholder management, and influencing skills.

Ability to manage multiple markets and priorities in a matrixed environment.

Fluency in English

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