Consumer Marketing Intern

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—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. At Lilly, we’re inspired to make a difference in people’s lives every day – through the discovery of life-changing medicines, better understanding of disease management and support for people living with illness and their families and friends.

You have an opportunity to bring your energy, innovative approach and creativity to help bring important medicines to patients. Our work today – from our research programs to our volunteer initiatives – is a reflection of our heritage of uniting caring with discovery to make life better for people around the world. Our team is focused, open, and collaborative. We aim to provide a start-up culture environment, within the larger umbrella of a global pharmaceutical company.

We will work collaboratively and quickly to innovate in our way of working. You will have broad exposure to different business areas within Lilly and gain a rich experience in the pharma industry.

The successful candidate will support Lilly Canada’s Consumer Marketing team and help bring innovative, breakthrough marketing strategies to life for Lilly medicines. This role focuses on Lilly’s Cardiometabolic Health portfolio and provides exposure to direct-to-consumer (DTC) marketing, digital and media planning, patient experience, creative development, and data analytics. The intern will work closely with the agile, growing Consumer Marketing team to support day-to-day execution of consumer initiatives, working alongside cross-functional teams, global colleagues, and external agencies within a regulated environment.

• Help develop end-to-end consumer marketing strategies to support the launch of new medicines to Canadian patients
• Execute PESO (paid, earned, shared, owned) initiatives across both digital and non-digital channels
• Coordinate with agency partners on media plans, campaign execution, and creative asset development
• Support market research, consumer insights, and data analysis to help identify growth opportunities, measure campaign performance, and inform cross-functional teams
• Collaborate with cross-functional partners, including brand, corporate affairs, digital, B2B, medical, regulatory, and legal teams, and gain exposure to leadership
• Stay on top of industry trends, innovations, and changes while learning to operate in a regulated environment

• Ongoing Master's degree, with interest in consumer marketing in the pharma industry
• Experience and/or education in marketing, brand management, or business administration an asset
• Learning agility, consumer mindset, collaborative approach, and team player attitude
• Ability to manage multiple projects, take initiative, and navigate ambiguity
• Strong communication, analytical, problem-solving, and organizational skills

Number of vacancies: 1

Start and end dates:
January 4th, 2027 to December 23rd, 2027

Potential for an earlier start in December 2026 in a part-time and remote model for proactive onboarding, after which resuming to a full-time hybrid model January 2027. Subject to the needs of the team, and availability.

Supervisor name:
Rui Lin Guo, Associate Director, Consumer Marketing

Salary: 29$/hour

This is a hybrid role – onsite presence at our downtown Toronto office will be at least 10 days per month, determined in collaboration with your manager and based on business needs.

You will be eligible to receive a per diem for each day you work on site.

Interns are eligible for paid vacation and sick days.

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