Associate/ Sr Associate, External Partnering (Clinical/Nonclinical), ExploR&D External Innovation

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.

Eli Lilly Cork is made up of a dedicated, diverse team of over 2000 employees across 60 nationalities who deliver innovative solutions that contribute across a variety of Business Service functions, including Finance, Information Technology, Medical, Clinical Trials and more. Eli Lilly Cork offers a premium workspace across our campus in Little Island, complete with flexible hybrid working options, healthcare, pension and life assurance benefits, subsidised canteen, onsite gym, travel subsidies and on-site parking. Inhouse People Development services, Educational Assistance, and our ‘Live Your BEST Life’

wellbeing initiatives are just some of the comprehensive benefits that enhance the career experience for our colleagues.

Eli Lilly Cork is committed to diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI). We cater for all dimensions ensuring inclusion of all ethnicities, nationalities, cultural backgrounds, generations, sexuality, visible and invisible disabilities and gender, with four pillars: EnAble, embRACE, LGBTQ+ & Ally and GIN-Gender Inclusion Network. EnAble, our pillar for people with disabilities and those that care for them, partners with the Access Lilly initiative to make our physical and digital environment accessible and inclusive for all. Together they are committed to promoting awareness to create a disability confident culture both at Eli Lilly Cork and beyond.

Come join our team - Be Creative, Be an Innovator, and most of all, Be Yourself!

This is a 15-month Fixed Term Contract.

Overview of the role

Lilly Catalyze360 is our external innovation organisation dedicated to biotech collaboration, which is comprised of three pillars: Lilly Ventures, providing capital directly to biotechs and via a fund-of-funds investment strategy; Lilly Gateway Labs, a best-in-class network of biotech incubators; and ExploR&D.

Within ExploR&D, our mission is to fuel Lilly’s world-leading capabilities and know-how to accelerate the science of our biotech collaborators to value inflexion and to patients. Through a unique model that mixes dedicated headcount and flexible use of functional and therapeutic area expertise, we will provide the knowledge and services to enable our collaborators’ programs. Through our work, we ensure Lilly is networked with the brightest scientific minds around the world to continue to make Lilly smarter, bring value for Lilly and the entire scientific ecosystem, and position Lilly as a partner of choice for biotechs to fuel our industry-leading pipeline with best external innovation. With the pace of technological disruption accelerating, ExploR&D also affords Lilly an agile way to pilot and deploy new technologies and vendor solutions that can increase the speed and efficiency in the way drugs are discovered and developed, both for our biotech collaborators, and by providing de-risked opportunities to evolve how Lilly and LRL operate.

The Associate/ Sr Associate, External Partnering (Clinical/Nonclinical), ExploR&D External Innovation will report to the ExploR&D Sr. Director in Cork, with a dotted line to ExploR&D Head of External Partnering and Translational Biology, who is based in the US.

Core Responsibilities

Facilitating and Supporting ExploR&D External Partnering Collaborations and Deal Portfolio Delivery :

• Support ExploR&D External Partnering through planning, execution and oversight, including identification and removal of internal barriers for external partnering, deal teams and external partners.​
• Manage and deliver on multiple projects of varying complexity to maintain the flow of external innovation opportunities – manage and track on data, deliverables and timelines across a variety of programs, partners and platforms.​
• Lead in the review of processes and systems in the tracking and advancement of ExploR&D front-end opportunities.​
• Identify needs for process improvement, design and implement efficient methods to improve systems management. ​
• Exhibit high-level PPM technical skills with relevant tools and software platforms to advance process improvement and increase efficiency and success ​
• Liaise with Project Management Office (PMO), Resource Modeling and Forecasting (RMF) and Portfolio Operations and Business Planning (POBP) and PMSC teams to identify, share, and incorporate standard methodologies into future processes, tools and training to support both External and Internal R&D​
• Lead cross-functional workstreams to deliver on opportunity and deal commitments​
• Execute with proficiency in self-management and organisational skills; able to self-manage time and workload, set personal and team priorities and adjust as needed.​
• Demonstrate strong interpersonal and teambuilding skills; develop effective teamwork between team members and external partners with diverse styles.​
• Exhibit curiosity, creative problem solving and efficient and timely delivery of commitments.​

People :

• Consistently demonstrate the four Team Lilly behaviours of Include, Innovate, Accelerate and Deliver​
• Contribute to the development of others by being an active source of PPM coaching and feedback to coworkers in both the front-end deal team as well as implementation phase project managers.​
• Share learning in broadly attended forums to advance skills, process compliance and effectiveness of the ExploR&D team.

Minimum job requirements (e.g., educational background, work history, etc.):

• Bachelor’s degree in a scientific or health sciences field, PhD preferred.
• Minimum of 1 year industry-related experience, preferred: 3+ years of experience in the pharmaceutical industry, drug development, or project management and/or product development
• Skilled at managing alliance/vendor relationships
• Demonstrated communication/interpersonal skills and ability to connect and influence at various levels across fields, both externally and internally.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills 
• Ensures effective cross-functional communication with internal and external experts.
• Highly desirable: Experience partnering with external collaborators in the design of partnered external innovation deals..

Lilly is dedicated to helping individuals with disabilities to actively engage in the workforce, ensuring equal opportunities when vying for positions. If you require accommodation to submit a resume for a position at Lilly, please complete the accommodation request form (https://careers.lilly.com/us/en/workplace-accommodation) for further assistance. Please note this is for individuals to request an accommodation as part of the application process and any other correspondence will not receive a response.

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.