Director/Sr Director, Injection Physiology & Parenteral Delivery Science

At Lilly, the work is demanding because patients are waiting. We unite caring with discovery to help make life better for people around the world, knowing that every decision, every detail, and every day matters. Headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana, our over 50,000 employees around the globe take on complex challenges to discover and deliver life-changing medicines, strengthen how health is understood and managed, and support the communities we serve. This is hard, urgent, selfless work—but it’s work worth doing. If you’re driven by purpose and ready to bring your best to work that truly matters for patients, we invite you to join us.  Organization Overview At Lilly, we serve an extraordinary purpose. We make a difference for people around the globe by discovering, developing and delivering medicines that help them live longer, healthier, more active lives. Not only do we deliver breakthrough medications, but you also can count on us to develop creative solutions to support communities through philanthropy and volunteerism. The Drug Delivery group at Lilly studies physiological barriers across routes of administration to create novel, patient-centric delivery solutions, serving as a center of excellence in injection physiology, device ideation, novel drug delivery technologies across modalities and routes of administration, nanomedicine and targeted delivery, and connected devices/digital biomarkers.

Overview: Teh Director/Sr Director,  Injection Physiology & Parenteral Delivery Science leads and directs the group's injection physiology and parenteral delivery science team — the scientists and engineers who quantify how injection parameters (flow rate, volume, viscosity, needle geometry, and injection depth) govern local tissue response, injection-site reactions, drug distribution, and systemic exposure across subcutaneous, intradermal, and intramuscular routes, and who build the ex-vivo tissue models, imaging, rheology, and biofluid-dynamics/CFD workflows that enable higher-concentration and higher-volume delivery. We are seeking a hands-on, senior technical leader to set scientific direction for this portfolio while leading, coaching, and developing a team of junior scientists — providing day-to-day technical guidance, prioritization, and mentorship — and operating at the enterprise level: representing Lilly externally with academic, clinical, and regulatory stakeholders and translating injection-physiology understanding into device-design, formulation, and dose-selection decisions across the pipeline. The role carries accountability for growing the team's talent and for translating injection-physiology science from mechanistic understanding into design-control- and clinic-ready delivery solutions.

Lead and direct the injection physiology and parenteral delivery science team: set the scientific vision and multi-year technical strategy, prioritize the portfolio across programs, and provide day-to-day scientific direction to junior scientists and engineers, aligned with the group's portfolio bets and enterprise R&D priorities. Serve as Lilly's internal and external technical authority on injection physiology — including injection biomechanics, tissue deformation and injection-site response, and the flow-rate, volume, and viscosity drivers of injectability and systemic exposure; lead cross-functional teams to translate mechanistic findings into device and formulation decisions, leveraging AI/ML-enabled modeling and data-analysis tools to accelerate technical decision-making. Build and leverage an external network of academic collaborators (e.g., university injection-physiology and computational-modeling programs), CROs, and regulatory bodies (e.g., FDA); represent Lilly's injection physiology work in publications, conferences, and regulatory discussions. Design and oversee preclinical and clinical injection-physiology study strategy — ex-vivo tissue models, imaging,