Senior Director – Business Insights & Analytics, Business Integration

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.

Position Overview

The Senior Director – Business Insights & Analytics, Business Integration lead will be part of a growing and dynamic team of analytics professionals whose main goal is to help business partners achieve their goals through data and analytics enablement. This role focuses on measurement, intelligence, and AI-enabled product development in support of an assigned business area. Responsibilities broadly include scaling measurement frameworks, unlocking intelligence from relevant data, and delivering actionable recommendations grounded in advanced analytics.

This position manages complex analytics projects in collaboration with BI&A Product Teams, business unit and affiliate leadership, marketing, commercial operations, and external agency or vendor partners as applicable. Support typically includes a pod located at Lilly Bangalore as well as direct reports. This role reports into the Business Insights & Analytics AVP of Global Consumer and HCP Media Analytics.

Responsibilities

• Maintain and scale utilization of analytics data products for the assigned business unit, therapeutic area, or affiliate, ensuring relevance across business partners.
• Train and upskill the broader organization on measurement frameworks and analytics best practices.
• Champion Agentic AI transformation as a strategic differentiator, positioning Lilly as an industry leader in business analytics.
• Manage foundational relationships with internal partners and, where applicable, external agency, vendor, and data partners.
• Challenge the status quo and drive solutions that help Lilly deliver on its accelerate, reach, and scale goals.
• Scale and automate data products required to support measurement and reporting for the assigned business area.
• Bring thought leadership to measurement strategies in ambiguous and rapidly evolving spaces.
• Partner with data engineering and data science to accelerate creation of intelligence tools (e.g., Databricks) that enable faster, smarter decisions.
• Lead the end-to-end analytics learning agenda for assigned business partners; analysis, reporting, insights, and recommendations that accelerate scaling of solutions that improve outcomes.
• Define both the long-term analytics roadmap and near-term sprint plans through an agile planning process, anchored to critical metrics that link to business value.
• Implement agile product delivery methodologies (e.g., Jira, SAFe) establishing a consistent planning and prioritization framework that improves transparency, productivity, and focus on highest-value deliverables.
• Develop and track success metrics demonstrating tangible business outcomes, decision influence, tool adoption, and stakeholder impact.
• Ensure analytics projects follow all privacy and legal requirements, including any third-party and data use agreements.
• Provide direction and expertise on business rules required for thorough analyses.
• Triage analytics requests and determine how to proceed (internal capacity vs. external vendor), matching capacity to capability.
• Partner closely across geographies (including Lilly Bangalore) to ensure teams work as one toward shared deliverables.
• Provide leadership, technical guidance, developmental support, and career planning for teams and individuals.

Individual Skills

• Experienced in navigating matrixed organizations.
• Comfort and skill operating in ambiguity.
• Hands-on experience designing and refining prompts for LLMs, with a strong grasp of AI model behavior, capabilities, and limitations in real-world applications.
• Strong collaborator with cross-functional teams across business, technical, and creative functions.
• Experienced in facilitating agile cadence, handling backlog and release planning, tracking team metrics, and removing blockers.
• Problem solver with the ability to lead development of new solutions.
• Strong leader, collaborator, teammate, and individual contributor.
• Excellent communication and storytelling skills with business partners.
• Skilled in building relationships across functions and geographies.
• Passion for challenging the status quo and driving consistent, iterative improvements.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree
• Minimum 8 years of analytical experience
• 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 Preferences

• Advanced degree with 3+ years of relevant experience
• Strong analytical skills coupled with business acumen and the ability to think strategically in an ambiguous environment.
• Consistent track record leading and delivering complex, multi-functional projects.
• Broad awareness and working knowledge of advanced analytics areas (AI, ML, NLP, predictive analytics).
• Experience managing and scaling technical teams in enterprise environments, preferably with international or multi-business-unit scope.
• Substantial analytics experience and understanding of complexities in specialty markets, analytics techniques, and the global pharmaceutical business.
• Experience working with third-party data.
• Ability to rally resources to achieve project and business results.
• High level of motivation and a willingness to find creative solutions to challenging situations.
• Superb communication (written and verbal), interpersonal influencing, and prioritization skills with attention to detail.
• Proficiency in Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and AI productivity tools (e.g., Claude).
• Demonstrated ability to apply Compliance Policies and Procedures (CPP), Good Promotional Practices (GPP), and related federal marketing and promotional laws and regulations in unstructured and fluid situations.
• Demonstrated ability to implement business rules and policies in a constructive but principled manner.

Additional Information

10 – 20% travel depending on business need.

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

$169,500 - $248,600

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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