Senior Director – Counsel, Integrated Patient Safety, Regulatory Legal

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 – Counsel, Integrated Patient Safety, Regulatory Legal

Organization Overview

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. 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.

The Senior Director - Counsel, Integrated Patient Safety will be part of the Regulatory Legal Team (RLT), which is a core strategic partner to the business, providing regulatory legal counsel across the product lifecycle from development through registration, commercialization, and post-market activities. RLT is a collaborative team of lawyers who collectively maintain the core legal expertise for the Company on global regulatory laws, including pharmacovigilance, clinical development and registration, manufacturing and quality, environmental and other areas of law. RLT works in close coordination with Business Unit Legal Teams (BULT), International Business Unit Legal (IBU Legal), IP, Litigation and other legal and risk functions to deliver cohesive, forward-looking guidance that enables innovation while managing legal and regulatory risk. 

Responsibilities

The primary responsibility of this position is to provide strategic, solutions-oriented legal counsel and pharmacovigilance subject matter expertise in support of Lilly’s broad portfolio of products – both in development and marketed. This role will provide strategic counsel to the various pillars of the Global Patient Safety organization, enabling modern pharmacovigilance practices, use of AI to streamline processes, and appropriate governance processes. This role will also partner with colleagues supporting clinical development on matters where patient safety and development activities intersect. This role requires strong judgment and innovative thinking on complex, novel issues while ensuring that Lilly’s pharmacovigilance and clinical development practices are conducted in accordance with applicable laws, regulations, and internal standards. 

Key responsibilities include:

• Pharmacovigilance operations: Serve as the primary legal partner to the pharmacovigilance operations team, providing day-to-day counseling on case management, safety surveillance, safety contracting, vendor oversight, and post-market safety surveillance studies. This requires the ability to translate legal concepts into clear, actionable guidance for business partners operating in a fast-paced, high-volume environment while navigating complex regulatory requirements. 
• Safety governance: Provide legal advice and support to product level safety management teams, including assessment of emerging safety issues, proposed labeling language, and updates.
• Clinical Development Interface: Partner with Regulatory Legal Team and other colleagues on clinical development matters where patient safety considerations intersect, giving pharmacovigilance perspective as needed. 
• AI/automation enablement: Support AI and automation initiatives across Global Patient Safety and Clinical Development by advising on legal and regulatory considerations (including appropriate governance) and helping develop scalable, fit-for-purpose approaches that enable innovation while handling risk.
• PV quality and inspection readiness: Provide legal, regulatory, and GxP compliance counsel on PV Quality matters, including PV risk management, legal support for internal audits, inspection readiness, and response strategy for PV inspections, safety topics related to GCP inspections, and related findings. 
• Emerging regulatory issues & guidance: Maintain strong awareness of evolving pharmacovigilance and clinical development related laws, regulations, and guidance; translate developments into clear implications, recommendations, and action-oriented guidance for collaborators.
• Policy and stakeholder influence: Influence internal and external stakeholders on priority regulatory policy initiatives, in coordination with Global Regulatory Affairs, Policy, and Legal colleagues, to support Lilly’s strategic objectives and protect patient and product integrity.

Basic Requirements

• Bachelor’s and JD Degrees
• Licensed to practice law in one of the US states
• Minimum 5-10 years of overall experience in a law firm or as an in-house lawyer in a device or pharmaceutical company

• Qualified applicants must be authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis. Lilly will not provide support for or sponsor work authorization or visas for this role, including but not limited to

  F-1 CPT, F-1 OPT, F-1 STEM OPT, J-1, H-1B, TN, O-1, E-3, H-1B1, or L-1.

Additional Skills/Preferences

• Prior regulatory agency experience
• Ability to triage, prioritize and effectively counsel a high volume of inputs from a variety of sources
• Highly motivated and collaborative partner with strong interpersonal skills and the ability to work effectively with team members, other lawyers, and members of management across all levels of the Company
• Excellent judgment and meticulous level of attention to detail
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with an ability to influence others, including leadership
• Proven ability to appropriately handle highly confidential information
• Proven dedication to expand knowledge and adapt to a changing, rapid-paced environment
• Proven leadership and effectiveness in working with senior leadership
• Prior experience advising on pharmacovigilance, drug safety, clinical development, or related regulatory matters
• Familiarity with global PV frameworks
• Experience advising on AI/automation governance or digital health initiatives

Other Information

• Remote/hybrid work may be acceptable
• No more than 10-15% travel is expected. The role may involve some travel to Lilly’s global affiliates

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Our employee resource groups (ERGs) offer strong support networks for their members and are open to all employees. Our current groups include: Africa, Middle East, Central Asia Network, Black Employees at Lilly, Chinese Culture Network, Japanese International Leadership Network (JILN), Lilly India Network, Organization of Latinx at Lilly (OLA), PRIDE (LGBTQ+ Allies), Veterans Leadership Network (VLN), Women’s Initiative for Leading at Lilly (WILL), enAble (for people with disabilities). Learn more about all of our groups.

Actual compensation will depend on a candidate’s education, experience, skills, and geographic location. The anticipated wage for this position is

$195,000 - $286,000

Full-time equivalent employees also will be eligible for a company bonus (depending, in part, on company and individual performance). In addition, Lilly offers a comprehensive benefit program to eligible employees, including eligibility to participate in a company-sponsored 401(k); pension; vacation benefits; eligibility for medical, dental, vision and prescription drug benefits; flexible benefits (e.g., healthcare and/or dependent day care flexible spending accounts); life insurance and death benefits; certain time off and leave of absence benefits; and well-being benefits (e.g., employee assistance program, fitness benefits, and employee clubs and activities).Lilly reserves the right to amend, modify, or terminate its compensation and benefit programs in its sole discretion and Lilly’s compensation practices and guidelines will apply regarding the details of any promotion or transfer of Lilly employees.

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