Senior Director, Patient Advocacy

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.  Centessa Pharmaceuticals, a wholly subsidiary of Eli Lilly and Company is advancing a portfolio of high conviction programs with strong biological validation.  Our asset-centric model offers a unique R&D logic that has been applied by single asset companies to improve productivity. This operating model has minimal centralized infrastructure, reduced hierarchy, and exclusive focus on data driven capital allocation.    Our teams are uniquely incentivized to expeditiously interrogate key scientific hypotheses. We believe the asset-centric model can lead to improved success rates for programs with greater speed and modest costs.   Description of Role   The Senior Director of Patient Advocacy will lead the development and execution of the company's patient advocacy and engagement strategy, ensuring the patient voice is embedded across clinical development, corporate strategy, disease awareness, and future commercialization efforts. Partnering closely with executive leadership, cross-functional teams, and colleagues within our parent organization, this individual will help develop and implement a strategic framework for incorporating patient perspectives into key business, development, and commercialization decisions. The role will build advocacy partnerships, drive patient-centered initiatives, influence decision-making, and advance measurable improvements in patient outcomes, disease awareness, clinical trial engagement, and access.

Build and lead the company's patient advocacy and engagement function, including strategy, operating model, governance, and external engagement frameworks.   Establish and cultivate relationships with patient advocacy organizations, professional societies, caregivers, patient leaders, and rare disease communities.   Develop processes to capture, analyze, and integrate patient insights across research, clinical development, regulatory activities, communications, and future commercialization planning.   Create and execute disease awareness, patient education, and community engagement initiatives that support diagnosis, education, and patient outcomes.   Develop and drive a strategic approach for integrating the patient voice into enterprise decision-making across Centessa and its parent organization, ensuring patient insights meaningfully inform clinical development, regulatory, medical, market access, and future commercial strategies, including clinical trial design, recruitment, retention, and participant experience.   Drive cross-functional collaboration across Medical Affairs, Clinical Development, Regulatory, Communications, Commercial, Market Access, and parent company stakeholders to advance a patient-centric culture and ensure patient perspectives are incorporated into strategic decision-making.   Identify advocacy, policy, and market-shaping opportunities that support both patient and organizational objectives .   Establish metrics, KPIs, and reporting processes to measure advocacy impact and organizational effectiveness.   Manage advocacy-related budgets, grants, and external partnerships while ensuring compliance with industry standards and company policies.

Bachelor's degree required ; advanced degree preferred (e.g., MPH, MHA, PharmD, PhD, or MD).   Minimum 10 years of experience