Associate Director - Technical Product Manager

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.

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

Understanding the U.S. healthcare environment and its complexities is captivating and stimulating. This team works with several Lilly Value & Access (LVA) organizations to bring operationally excellent solutions and art of the possible ideas together to transform the way we work. In this role, you will work on both transformational and operational activities for several key LVA business areas, with a critical focus on Market Access capabilities including solutions to benefit field personnel, deal developers, and contract developers.

You will focus on driving technology solutions that enable our Value & Access team to collaborate effectively with payers and other healthcare organizations, ensuring equitable access to Lilly products in the market. You will work closely with both technical teams and business stakeholders, ensuring technology solutions align with the goals of payer deal modeling and deal development.  You will encourage innovative concepts and ensure secure, resilient, modernized, and compliant operations for the many critical Tech at Lilly solutions that run Lilly’s premier affiliate.

What You Will Do

Technical Expertise

• Work with cross-functional teams to design and implement technology solutions for payer deal modeling, including integration of AI capabilities for predictive forecasting, analytics, and optimization.

• Partner with engineering teams to implement ETL pipelines, manage databases, and integrate cloud computing solutions.

• Leverage knowledge of US Healthcare, including payers, plans, formularies, rebates, and fees, to ensure solutions meet business and regulatory requirements.

• Be an active, hands-on member of development tasks when required, particularly as it relates to leveraging Generative AI for innovative solutions such as data analysis or process optimization.

• Stay current with emerging technologies and assess their applicability to improve the Value & Access business function.

Strategic Thought-Leadership

• Collaborate with LVA business functions to define and prioritize technology needs that align with market access goals.

• Translate complex business needs into clear product requirements and technical specifications.

• Develop and manage the product roadmap for solutions that support payer deal modeling and deal development processes.

Stakeholder Engagement

• Act as a key liaison between business and technical teams, facilitating effective communication and collaboration.

• Provide training, documentation, and support to end-users to maximize adoption of new solutions.

• Present update to senior leadership on product performance, progress, and future opportunities.

Your Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or higher in computer science, management of information systems or related technical field

• Minimum 5 years’ experience in Information Technology

• Previous hands-on experience with ETL processes and database management (e.g., SQL, Redshift, etc.)

• Strong understanding of cloud computing concepts (e.g., AWS, Azure)

• Previous experience implementing AI capabilities

• Experience data modeling and datalake architectures.

• Previous experience in Project Management, particularly leading large programs in the commercial space.

Preferred Skills

• Previous experience working in IT in the pharmaceutical/healthcare industry

• Familiarity with analytics tools like Power BI and Tableau

• Familiarity with developing in AWS (Glue, Lambda)

• Familiarity with web development including React and Java Script

• Understanding of Agile software development or the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)

What You Should Bring

• Art of the possible mindset and a sense of urgency

• Experience building operationally excellent IT solutions

• Enthusiasm for people, process, technology and innovation

• Strong written and oral communication skills

• A strong learning agility and curious mind that seeks to understand the LVA business processes and strategy

• A passion for scaling AI/ML capabilities to drive business outcomes

Additional Information

• Position located in Indianapolis, IN.

• Position requires in-office attendance a majority of the time.

Organization Overview

Lilly IT builds and maintains capabilities using cutting edge technologies like most prominent tech companies. What differentiates Lilly IT is that we redefine what’s possible through tech to advance our purpose – creating medicines that make life better for people around the world, like data driven drug discovery and connected clinical trials. We hire the best technology professionals from a variety of backgrounds, so they can bring an assortment of knowledge, skills, and diverse thinking to deliver innovative solutions in every area of our business.

Business Units

The Global Business Unit tech team is at the forefront of leveraging data and technology to launch new medicines to market, to raise awareness and to gain access to medicines for appropriate patients. With a deep technical and business understanding, working across working across all therapeutic areas/disease states, we design and implement digital solutions to power our business, creating best-in-class customer engagements that improve patient outcomes and deliver business results.

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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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