Associate Director Lead

Primary Responsibilities

Implementation of Field Medical Strategies The MSL Lead / Manager will focus on field medical strategy development in alignment with Clinical Research Physician of the Therapy Area, execution of medical communication plan by the MSLs, including medical omni channel engagements and ensure field implementation is in alignment with Business Unit, Indian Affiliate priorities via review of all assigned Scientific / Medical Experts included in their geographies of operations and will evaluate internal/external feedback regarding team performance

Achieve Operational Effectiveness The MSL Lead / Manager is accountable for overall performance and compliance of the Medical Liaison Team and ensuring alignment with applicable laws, regulations, and guidelines; Global Medical Policies and Procedures.. Responsibilities include working with CRPs & MAPs, IBU Medical Liaison Operations to ensure that appropriate ML training is available, identifying process improvement initiatives, and ensuring appropriate documentation practices are employed. The MSL Lead / Manager will also be responsible for partnering with relevant stakeholder on the design, analysis and communication of voice of the customer results and will encourage sharing of best practices with appropriate reward and recognition programs. Finally, the MSL Lead / Manager will be responsible for providing appropriate leadership in the current competitive and regulatory environment

Effective Development of People The MSL Lead / Manager will have direct supervisory responsibility for the Medical Scientific Liaisons. The MSL Lead / Manager will coach and develop talent to perform to their highest levels. At least Monthly interaction with all direct reports and with other cross functional stakeholders within and outside of medical function is required. Develop and strengthen skills of Medical Liaisons through joint field visits at regular intervals. In addition, attendance at medical meetings involving external clients will be expected to ensure overall effectiveness of the team.. The MSL Lead / Manager will oversee the recruitment strategy and staffing as well as assure the standards of disease area and product knowledge for MLs are maintained. Finally, the MSL Lead / Manager will actively participate in succession planning and talent development

Interface with Business Partners The MSL Lead / Manager is responsible for building and maintaining effective relationships with all appropriate internal business partners to communicate ML team objectives/deliverables (including Brand Team, Medical and Marketing Teams, Health Outcomes, Health Education, Senior Management, and other relevant field personnel). Relationships with external Scientific Experts will be improved by strong collaboration of the MSL Lead / Manager with appropriate Brand and Medical counterparts. Ongoing networking is also essential to discuss therapeutic area strategy and opportunities for strengthening key relationships with external Scientific Experts

Establish and Maintain Effective EXTERNAL Business Partnerships

Scientific Experts: Field visits with MLs and their SEs to build strong relationships with external scientific experts bringing the external knowledge into Lilly and partnering with a broad, diverse group of internal business partners to drive strategic decisions around compounds, specific therapeutic area and the IBU ML function

Compliance and Quality: Create a culture where quality and compliance is expected and integrated into daily tasks and activities performed by individuals in the ML organization . Proactively monitor ML team compliance. Cooperate with investigations, monitoring and audits and drive implementation of the Medical Quality System

Support Business Planning: The MSL Lead / Manager is accountable for creating and managing the business plan data for field medical. This includes identifying the budget & full-time equivalent (FTE) resources needed to implement strategic plans, and communicating data of financial forecasts and personnel changes to financial management

Minimum Qualification Requirements
Experience in professional relationship building and networking

Demonstrated effective presentation and communication skills (both oral and written)

Strong interpersonal skills and demonstrated ability to give constructive feedback

Demonstrated learning agility for acquiring technical knowledg