Senior Director, Investigator Engagement - Neuroscience TA Lead

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Purpose:

The Senior Director, Investigator Engagement – Neuroscience Therapeutic Area Lead is a strategic global leadership role responsible for developing and implementing the investigator selection and enrollment strategy across the clinical development portfolio within the Neuroscience space. With a focus on driving both global consistency and local customization, this role partners closely with IE field leadership, cross-functional partners, asset teams and other key stakeholders to ensure the successful delivery of high-quality, on-time enrollment globally.

With accountability to embed deep field connectivity into strategic planning, this leader will collate, interpret, and apply critical insights from field-teams combined with centralized data intelligence to inform optimized trial design, geographic placement, and appropriate selection and execution of enrollment capabilities.

Focused on patient-centered and tailored investigator engagement approaches through an intelligence-driven approach, the Senior Director ensures Investigator Engagement strategies are grounded in extending and broadening patient reach and are aligned with scientific and operational goals enabling faster, more inclusive enrollment and best in class investigator relationships across the lifecycle of the clinical portfolio.

Primary Responsibilities:

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1. Strategic Ownership of Investigator Engagement and Enrollment

• Lead the development and execution of a forward-looking, data-informed investigator and site strategy across the TA portfolio.
• Identify priority investigators based on historical performance, scientific expertise, and patient access.
• Establish a scalable, repeatable model for Investigator selection, engagement, and enrollment acceleration across assets and geographies.

2. Collating Global Insights to Optimize Design and Delivery

• Collect and synthesize critical insights from field-based teams, investigators, and sites across all geographies.
• Interpret global field intelligence to influence clinical trial design elements (e.g. inclusion/exclusion criteria, visit burden), optimize geographic placement, and improve execution of enrollment strategies.
• Leverage these insights to help shape trial designs to be feasible, and competitive in the real-world clinical environment.
• Use insights to pressure-test enrollment assumptions and refine inclusion/exclusion criteria, visit schedules, and competitive positioning.
• Contribute insights on clinical paradigms, competitive landscape, and evolving investigator needs to influence study design and operational delivery.
• Ensure investigator strategies are aligned with key milestones (e.g. submissions, inspections, publications).

3. Collaboration with CD, PE and Asset Teams

• Serve as the enrollment strategy lead with clinical development teams, ensuring alignment between TA priorities, trial design, patient engagement priorities making data informed decisions
• Partner with Clinical Development, Medical Affairs and clinical capabilities partners to deliver on goals.
• Share TA-specific intelligence and enrollment trends to shape key protocol decisions and proactively address feasibility challenges.
• Ensure strategic alignment between investigator/site plans and asset milestones (e.g., FPV, LPI, submissions).

4. Operational Leadership and Performance Management

• Monitor site and portfolio-level enrollment performance; identify at-risk studies and drive timely mitigation.
• Identify and support implementation of innovative models (e.g. Site networks, preferred partners, digital recruitment integrations and pre-assessed candidates

5. External Collaboration

• Help cultivate long-term relationships with key global investigators and strategic sites to enhance scientific collaboration and mutual value.
• Champion diversity, equity, and inclusion in investigator selection to ensure broader representation of patients and communities.
• Lead the strategic use of CROs and external vendors to align with enrollment goals, ensuring accountability, performance transparency, and integration of vendor capabilities.

6. Leadership, Culture, and Quality

• Role model enterprise leadership behaviors, fostering a high-performing, inclusive, and inspection-ready culture.
• Ensure compliance with GCP, internal standards, and evolving regulatory expectations in all investigator and site interactions.
• Promote a culture of proactive enrollment planning, operational rigor, and continuous improvement.
• Mentor and develop future leaders across the organization through influence and coaching.

Minimum Qualification Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in a scientific or health related field (or equivalent degree)
• 10+ year’s experience in the pharmaceutical industry with drug development experience, and clinical research experience. 
• Qualified candidates must be legally authorized to be employed in the country.  Lilly does not anticipate providing sponsorship for employment visa status (e.g., H-1B, or TN status) for this employment position

Other Information/Additional Preferences:

• Post-graduate degree, e.g., Pharm D, M.S., M.B.A. or Ph.D.
• Experience leading through transformational change
• Demonstrated ability to influence team members and extended team members
• Strong interpersonal and excellent communication (written and verbal), organizational and negotiation skills
• Prior project management experience and/or experience leading multi-disciplinary teams
• Demonstrated ability to take strategic knowledge and effectively influence the direction of daily operations
• Demonstrated critical thinking skills
• Prior experience managing complex/cross-functional projects
• Broad understanding of pharmaceutical, global drug development process
• Strong knowledge of quality systems
• Project management experience and results oriented experience
• Deliver strong customer experiences

Job Location:

• Strong preference for Indianapolis based but will consider remoted based

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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

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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