Alzheimer's Ecosystem Strategist

We are seeking a highly skilled Alzheimer's Ecosystem Strategist to join our team at Lilly. As a key member of our team, you will play a critical role in maximizing opportunities by identifying and removing system barriers, communicating with physicians and local health systems, and fostering collaborative projects between Lilly and healthcare organizations to improve patient outcomes.

The successful candidate will need to be fluid in a changing environment and strategic priorities, with the opportunity to flex their creative muscles to foster collaboration across multiple stakeholders and overcome challenges to deliver innovative treatments.

You will be the interface between our key customers, including healthcare professionals and all relevant functions and management at Lilly. You will work in a strong cross-functional team integrated with Marketing, Medical, RAM, PRA, and Corporate Affairs, and manage the planning and execution of activities in priority accounts for the Alzheimer's area.

Key Responsibilities:

Mapping and Shaping the Ecosystem

• Map and document the ecosystems for diagnosis and therapy in terms of patient flow.
• Actively shape Dx & Tx pathways, including referral pathways, service redesign, and finding solutions addressing capacity constraints.
• Remove barriers to early and accurate diagnosis.
• Execute and manage collaborative working projects in priority healthcare organizations.
• Partner with third parties to design and deliver local solutions and services.

Partnership Development and Management

• Responsible for local partnerships in collaboration with Medical, Marketing, PRA, Corporate Affairs to improve the ecosystem.
• Seek out and prioritize priority partnership/collaboration opportunities, aligned to our brand and therapy expertise.
• Use business information to identify variance in local account performance and collaborate on tactical plans to maximize performance.
• Identify relevant opportunities to mobilize other functions into the account to drive further value (medical, health outcomes, partnership projects, etc.).

Customers

• Establish and grow sustainable and resilient relationships with key organized customers (HCP, local payors, etc.) in the therapeutic area.
• Structured identification of customer needs and insights.
• Work closely with customers individually to develop innovative projects and value-added programs that combine customer needs and patient care improvement.
• Design value-added programs in a scalable way.

Account Management

• Establish and exemplify a cross-functional mindset in the account team.
• Responsible for leading, coordinating, and executing the account planning process with the cross-functional team.
• Scheduling, preparation, and execution of reviews with management and senior management stakeholders.
• Analysis and evaluation of relevant data and derivation of strategic conclusions and action instructions.
• Active participation in Brand Teams.

Skills and Expertise

• Good understanding of developments in the healthcare market and healthcare policy and their impact on clients.
• Deep understanding of structures and processes in the therapeutic area of neuroscience.
• Confidence in dealing and communicating at senior management level both internally and externally.
• Strong business acumen and results orientation with a high degree of initiative, follow-through, and positive mindset.
• Strong ability to holistically penetrate and structure complex organized structures and personnel interrelationships.
• Strong analytical working skills with strong problem-solving abilities.
• Superior ability to navigate and successfully implement complex projects through coordination processes with internal stakeholders.
• Strong lateral leadership skills and ability to engage cross-functional team members including other field and office functions toward a common goal.
• Strongly developed strategic mindset to analyze customer needs and derive conclusions.
• High level of creativity to translate customer insights into value-added programs and solution approaches that align the customer's needs and Lilly's strategic interests in the therapeutic area.
• Outstandingly positive work attitude, open to change, and enjoys new challenges.

Experience

• Minimum 5 years of experience in the pharmaceutical or biomedical or medical device industry with responsibility for hospitals and other organized customer groups or equivalent experience.
• Proven ability for successful lateral leadership of cross-functional teams.
• Proven ability to successfully execute large projects with internal stakeholders and customers from planning to implementation.
• Fluent in written and spoken English.

Qualifications

• Master Degree/Diploma in Pharmacy, Life Sciences, Business Administration, Marketing, or other relevant fields.
• Previous experience in environment shaping.

Additional Preferences:

• Previous experience in Neuroscience.
• Thrives in white space.
• Strong business and scientific acumen.
• Demonstrated critical thinking skills (strategic, analytical, creative problem-solving).
• Great communicator (simplifier).

Lilly does not discriminate on the basis of age, race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, protected veteran status, disability, or any other legally protected status.

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