Senior Director, Global Medical Capability Excellence Lead

Eli Lilly and Company

Global medical capability leader at Lilly, a pharmaceutical company developing life-changing medicines. Driving governance, capability deployment, process optimization, and new-venture integration.

Posted 8/21/2026full-timeRemote • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $154,500 - $226,600 per yearWebsite

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates expertise in capability development, strategic thinking, and process optimization within the pharmaceutical industry. Proven ability to lead cross-functional teams, communicate effectively with senior stakeholders, and drive initiatives from strategy to execution.

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Capability DevelopmentStrategic ThinkingProcess OptimizationCross-Functional LeadershipStakeholder Engagement

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Hard Skills

Impact MeasurementGovernance FrameworksCapability ImplementationAction Plan DevelopmentOperating Model DesignBusiness Process OptimizationMedical Affairs ExperienceCommunity Building

Soft Skills

Inclusive LeadershipConcise CommunicationStrategic JudgmentTeam Culture Development

Certifications & Qualifications

Bachelor’s DegreeMBA Preferred

Industry Keywords

Pharmaceutical IndustryGMAOStakeholder AlignmentOrganizational ChangeCapability Rollout

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Define and evolve GMAO capability strategy and multi-year roadmap
Establish a framework to assess capability implementation progress and impact
Align priorities across BUs, IBU, and GMAO stakeholders
Lead governance forums for decision-making, prioritization, and performance tracking
Identify improvement priorities and develop action plans
Serve as the point of contact across GMAO capabilities for hubs, affiliates, and global teams
Coordinate global rollout of medical capabilities through governance forums
Ensure execution of capability deep-dives, self-assessments, and follow-up actions
Identify and prioritize capability deployment and advancement initiatives
Lead the Hub Capability Lead community of practice and enable best-practice sharing
Guide training priorities and access to learning resources
Enable BU, US, and IBU teams to establish and optimize processes
Identify cross-team gaps, pain points, and opportunities across capability delivery processes
Design and coordinate operating-model and core-business-process optimization initiatives
Communicate progress, insights, and strategic direction to senior stakeholders
Identify and plan medical tasks from newly acquired ventures according to asset development stage
Assess GMAO capacity for new ventures
Partner with stakeholders to assess organizational change impacts
Develop and execute stakeholder engagement and communication plans
Drive prioritization, trade-off decisions, capability adoption, measurable impact, and roadmap visibility

Requirements

What you’ll need

Bachelor’s Degree
8 years of experience in the pharmaceutical industry
Authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis
Lilly will not provide support for or sponsor work authorization or visas
MBA preferred
Demonstrated ability to think strategically and shape strategic thinking
Demonstrated ability to manage highly complex and sometimes ambiguous tasks
Demonstrated ability to challenge the status quo and influence cross-functionally
Demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional work without being the subject matter expert
Demonstrated ability to communicate concisely with senior stakeholders
Demonstrated ability to drive strategy to execution and action
Demonstrated ability to surface, challenge, and clarify complex matters with strategic judgment and organizational impact
Prior experience in capability development, impact measurement, and process optimization
Prior experience working with affiliates and in medical affairs
Prior experience building communities of practice
Strong inclusive leadership and ability to drive a positive team culture
Ability to navigate Roles and Responsibilities and approach work in a Team Lilly Spirit

Benefits

Comp & perks

Company bonus depending on company and individual performance
Company-sponsored 401(k)
Pension
Vacation benefits
Medical, dental, vision, and prescription drug benefits
Flexible benefits, including healthcare and/or dependent day care flexible spending accounts
Life insurance and death benefits
Certain time off and leave of absence benefits
Well-being benefits, including employee assistance program, fitness benefits, and employee clubs and activities
Employee resource groups and support networks