Associate Director – Global Communications Intelligence

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 Associate Director, Communications Insights & Analytics turns measurement frameworks, dashboards, and AI-enabled analytics into the insights, foresight, and evidence-based recommendations the function relies on to make sharper decisions. It's a rare opportunity to put data to work for a purpose-driven company focused on making life better — helping Lilly understand what's resonating with the people it serves. Reporting to the Senior Director, Global Communications Intelligence, the Associate Director runs the measurement program day to day — conducting the analyses, building the dashboards, and producing the executive-ready insights across messaging, channels, audience engagement, and reputation.

Operating at the intersection of creativity and analytics, this is a hands‑on role for an analyst and builder who pairs deep analytical rigor with a storyteller's instinct for what the data means and why it matters — running the measurement program, surfacing insights, and using AI tools for automated reporting and analysis.

• Operationalize measurement strategies, key metric frameworks, and reporting standards across Global Communications, ensuring consistent, high-quality execution against established governance.
• Build, maintain, and continuously improve dashboards and data systems (for example, Meltwater) that deliver actionable intelligence for strategy creation, content development, and performance measurement.
• Conduct ongoing analysis across, channels, audiences and reputation, translating performance data into clear recommendations that optimize creative output.
• Support advanced signal detection and predictive analytics (such as anomaly detection and trend forecasting) to surface emerging issues, crises, and trends before they intensify.
• Apply AI driven tools and platforms to modernize analytical workflows, capture efficiencies, and enhance creative capabilities—serving as a hands‑on power user and internal champion for adoption.
• Produce executive‑ready insights, reports, and narratives that inform strategy and drive understanding of key audiences—who we need to reach, where they are, what they trust, and how to engage them.
• Partner with the Marketing social media team on shared listening and analytics, and collaborate with enterprise analytics partners such as Business Insights & Analytics and Market Research teams.
• Strengthen data literacy across the function, ensuring insights drive decisions across all communications functions.

• Bachelor's degree in a relevant field such as Communications, Marketing, Data Science, Statistics, or Business Analytics
• 7 years of experience in communications, marketing, or business intelligence, with a strong focus on data analytics, measurement, and insights, ideally within a global, matrixed organization; pharma, healthcare, or other regulated industry experience is a plus.

• Demonstrated experience building and maintaining dashboards, measurement programs, and reporting systems that connect communications activities to business…