Sr Director - Medical Affairs Analytics Product

At Lilly, we unite caring with discovery to make life better for people around the world. We are a global healthcare leader headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana. Our employees around the world work to discover and bring life-changing medicines to those who need them, improve the understanding and management of disease, and give back to our communities through philanthropy and volunteerism. We give our best effort to our work, and we put people first. We’re looking for people who are determined to make life better for people around the world.Senior Director, Business Insights & Analytics – Medical Affairs Product DeliveryThe Business Insights and Analytics (BI&A) team is a global analytics function focused on driving improved patient and business outcomes through strategic, data-driven insights.Position OverviewThe Senior Director, Business Insights & Analytics – Medical Affairs Product will lead a transformational initiative to create fast, efficient intelligence through Agentic AI to accelerate medical solutions to healthcare providers and reach patients faster. This position is responsible for advancing the Medical Affairs product strategy to enable the core Business Unit integration teams with both data and analytical products that can scale, accelerate and advance the core priorities for the Medical Affairs function.This role sits at the intersection of modern AI innovation and Medical Affairs strategy, directly impacting our ability to close clinical care gaps and advance scientific data dissemination—especially for therapies addressing large unmet needs.You will pioneer Agentic AI adoption across US and International Business Units (IBU) by building tools through intelligent, AI-ready data foundations that enable faster, smarter Medical Affairs decisions. Success means delivering measurable business impact: improved patient outcomes, capacity savings through automation, influence on global strategic decisions, and collaborators who actively cite your team's insights as drivers of their success.Key ResponsibilitiesStrategic Leadership & VisionDevelop and implement comprehensive Medical Affairs Analytics Product strategy using a product-first approach aligned with BI&A and Agentic AI goalsDirect the Medical Affairs analytics product portfolio with end-to-end accountability for insights that accelerate delivery of medical solutions and close clinical care gapsChampion Agentic AI transformation as a strategic differentiator, positioning Lilly as an industry leader in autonomous Medical Affairs analyticsDevelop multi-year product roadmaps balancing AI innovation with regulatory compliance, scientific rigor, and business valueParticipate in strategy development and future-state visioning across BI&A product teamsPartner with Medical Affairs leadership to identify high-impact opportunities where AI-driven insights influence critical decisionsTranslate complex AI capabilities into compelling value propositions for global Medical Affairs participantsAI-Ready Data Foundation & Agentic AI DeploymentProvide strategic leadership on Agentic AI work through close partnership across BI&A functions (Data Engineering, Data Science, Privacy, BU Integration teams, etc) to build a consistent, aligned AI data foundationBuild AI-ready data infrastructure ensuring data quality, lineage, policy as code, governance, and real-time accessibility across RWE, clinical trials, publications, HCP engagement, and medical operations dataDevelop comprehensive semantic layers that translate complex medical data into unified business logic, enabling scalable self-service analytics globally. Ensure common and consistent rules and methodology across functions and teams to remove duplication and/or differences at the semantic layerPartner with Data Science to architect and deploy AI agents that autonomously generate insights, answer medical queries, accelerate evidence synthesis, and enhance decision speedRecommend and implement policy-as-code frameworks to automate governance, carry out regulatory compliance, and embed ethical AI principlesDrive Agentic AI integration into performance dashboards to improve ease of insight identification and reduce time from data to decisionCreate fast, efficient intelligence pipelines delivering insights at the speed required for driven launch excellenceProduct Delivery & Business ImpactEnsure your team delivers scalable, AI-enabled products that solve business problems and are supported by solid evidence grounded in analyticsImprove scalable analytical tools and capabilities across global Medical Affairs solutions to enable strategic investment decisions and optimize resource allocation for maximum patient impactDrive adoption and transformation of BI&A product approach to achieve marked capacity savings, redeploying analytics talent from routine reporting to high-value AI-enabled workEnsure enablement through data and analytics products for enhanced, comprehensive customer identification—improving ability to identify, segment, and engage the right HCPs to ensure Medical Education is optimized to improve patient outcomesSupport scaling of innovation readiness data, analytics, and measurement for breakthrough therapies in high-priority therapeutic areasImplement agile product delivery methodologies (Jira, SAFe)—establishing a consistent planning and prioritization framework that improves transparency, productivity, and focus on highest-value work you're doingDevelop and track success metrics demonstrating tangible business outcomes, decision influence, tool adoption, and collaborator impactCollaborator Partnership & Change LeadershipCultivate trusted advisor relationships with Medical Affairs leadership globally, translating scientific questions into AI-powered analytics solutions with measurable impactEnsure adoption through active tool usage where stakeholders quote the specific impact BI&A delivers—establishing clear lines from insights to decisions to outcomesCommunicate sophistica