Senior Director – Counsel– Alliance Management and Transactions (R&D), Infectious Disease & Vaccines

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.  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. Organization Overview Lilly has established a newly formed Infectious Disease and Vaccines business, bringing together novel science, high-stakes regulatory environments, and significant opportunity for patients around the world. This role sits within the Legal team and will serve as a dedicated alliance management and transactions partner for this emerging franchise, working in close coordination with Regulatory Legal, Business Unit Legal, IP, Litigation, and other legal and risk functions to deliver cohesive, forward-looking guidance that enables innovation while managing legal and business risk.

Are you seeking a career that makes a difference in the world? We are seeking an experienced attorney to join our Legal team at Lilly, supporting Lilly's growing Infectious Disease and Vaccines portfolio. We're interested in a versatile, team-oriented candidate who desires to work in a dynamic environment with broad responsibility and influence, and who is energized by the opportunity to help build legal support for an emerging, fast-growing therapeutic area. This multidisciplinary position requires that you demonstrate your deep legal and business sense and problem-solving skills, with an understanding of R&D and commercial contracting for the life sciences industry — particularly within the infectious disease and vaccines space — to help advance the development of medicines and vaccines for patients across the world. This position provides the opportunity to work cross functionally within the legal and business functions, including Alliance Management, R&D, Business Unit Legal, Regulatory Legal, IP, Privacy, Litigation, Compliance, Marketing, Procurement, Investor Relations and Public Affairs. This position will focus on: Alliance and Transaction Management: This position will have responsibility for post-execution management of license, collaboration, M&A and other agreement legal support for Lilly's infectious disease and vaccines portfolio, including newly acquired assets and platforms. The Alliance, Transactions and R&D Legal Counsel will be a key partner in providing strategic legal and business advice for the Alliance Management function and other functions leading on-going contractual relationships across this emerging franchise. R&D and Commercial Transactions: Responsibilities of this role will include preparing, reviewing, and negotiating a wide variety of complex R&D and commercial agreements supporting infectious disease and vaccine programs. This role will also provide counsel in substantive transactional areas relevant to vaccines and infectious disease, such as government and BARDA-related contracting considerations and CRADAs and other public-private collaboration structures. The ideal candidate will have experience negotiating R&D and commercial service agreements, clinical and non-clinical research agreements (e.g., sponsored, collaborative, real world evidence, and quality), as