Associate Director - Product Manager - Enterprise Data

At Lilly, we unite caring with discovery to make life better for people around the world. We are a global healthcare leader headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana. Our employees around the world work to discover and bring life-changing medicines to those who need them, improve the understanding and management of disease, and give back to our communities through philanthropy and volunteerism. We give our best effort to our work, and we put people first. We’re looking for people who are determined to make life better for people around the world.

Join us in building advanced data and analytics capabilities to accelerate our digital and AI transformation, and support Lilly’s evolution into a leader in pharma-tech.

The Enterprise Data Team, part of the Digital Core Organization in Tech@Lilly, collaborates to accelerate business decisions through innovative enterprise data and analytics solutions, and frictionless access to trusted, AI-ready data products. We work globally with our cross-functional Tech@Lilly partners to strategically align their needs with our fully integrated and intuitive data and analytics ecosystem.

We are seeking an experienced and visionary Product Manager to lead data and analytics products within the Tech@Lilly organization. This role is pivotal in driving the strategic direction, development, and delivery of our data and analytics portfolio, ensuring alignment with Eli Lilly’s broader business objectives. The ideal candidate will bring a strong background in product management, data, storytelling, and technology; along with excellent leadership and communication skills.

What You'll Be Doing:

• Leadership and Strategy: Define and execute the strategic vision for data and analytics products, ensuring alignment with company goals. Lead as a Product Manager while fostering a culture of innovation and excellence.
• Product Development and Adoption: Manage the full product lifecycle from ideation to launch and beyond. Collaborate with cross-functional teams (data scientists, engineers, business stakeholders) to define requirements, prioritize features, and ensure timely delivery. Monitor adoption, usage, and make recommendations on product maintenance, refresh, or retirement.
• Product Planning and Execution: Own the execution of Enterprise Data Quarterly PI Planning. Guide and empower the product engineering team to scope, plan, and deliver work using established delivery methodologies (e.g., Agile) and best practices (e.g., reusability).
• Stakeholder Management: Build strong relationships with internal stakeholders and external partners. Communicate product vision, strategy, and progress clearly to ensure alignment and support across the organization.
• Market and Competitive Analysis: Stay informed on industry trends, market dynamics, and the competitive landscape. Conduct research to identify new opportunities, assess demand, and inform product positioning.
• Innovation and Continuous Improvement: Promote a culture of innovation and continuous improvement. Encourage experimentation, exploration of emerging technologies, and adoption of best practices.
• Compliance: Ensure adherence to regulatory requirements, data privacy, and security standards.

What You Should Bring:

• AWS and/or Azure Cloud Foundations certification(s).
• Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) certification(s)
• Experience of design thinking principles and customer experience design
• Leadership Skills: Demonstrated ability to inspire and lead high-performing teams. Strong strategic thinking, problem-solving, and decision-making skills. Capable of facilitating complex discussions and balancing strategic and tactical priorities.
• Communication Skills: Exceptional interpersonal and communication skills. Able to effectively engage and influence stakeholders at all levels. Strong storytelling and presentation abilities to convey complex concepts clearly and compellingly.
• Experience in the pharmaceutical or healthcare industry is highly desirable.
• Analytical Skills: Strong analytical and quantitative capabilities. Able to interpret data, identify trends, and make data-driven decisions. Proficient in data analysis tools and techniques.
• Innovation and Adaptability: Comfortable in a fast-paced, dynamic environment. Demonstrated passion for innovation and continuous learning.

Basic Requirements:

• Education : Bachelor’s in Computer Science, Information Technology, Data Science, Business Administration, or a related field.
• Experience : Minimum of 5 years in product management, with experience on data and analytics products. Experience in leading and delivering complex products in a technology-driven organization.
• Technical Proficiency : Experience in data and analytics technologies, including data warehousing, data lakes, analytics tools, data engineering, AI/ML, and data governance (catalog/marketplace). Familiarity with cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, Google Cloud) and visualization tools (e.g., Tableau, Power BI) is a plus..
• Project Management Skills : Experience managing multiple projects, prioritizing tasks, and meeting deadlines. Experience with Agile methodologies and tools (e.g., Jira, Jira Align) is preferred.
• Compliance Awareness : Knowledge of regulatory, privacy, and security standards relevant to the pharmaceutical industry. Experience implementing data governance practices is a plus.

Location: US, Indianapolis. Travel less than 10% of the time.

Organization Overview

Lilly IT builds and maintains capabilities using cutting edge technologies like most prominent tech companies. What differentiates Lilly IT is that we redefine what’s possible through tech to advance our purpose – creating medicines that make life better for people around the world, like data driven drug discovery and connected clinical trials. We hire the best technology professionals from a variety of backgrounds, so they can bring an assortment of knowledge, skills, and diverse thinking to deliver innovative solutions in every area of our business.

The Global Information and Services Tech team is at the forefront of digitalization to enable and advance the entire company, with increased productivity and best-in-class Customer experiences. This team provides a robust and sustainable infrastructure of hardware, software and services that are critical to enable our global workforce and business to operate and transform. As leaders in technology and understanding business requirements and challenges, this team defines and leads the overall company technology strategy.

Lilly is dedicated to helping individuals with disabilities to actively engage in the workforce, ensuring equal opportunities when vying for positions. If you require accommodation to submit a resume for a position at Lilly, please complete the accommodation request form ( https://careers.lilly.com/us/en/workplace-accommodation ) for further assistance. Please note this is for individuals to request an accommodation as part of the application process and any other correspondence will not receive a response.

Lilly is proud to be an EEO Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of age, race, color, religion, gender identity, sex, gender expression, sexual orientation, genetic information, ancestry, national origin, protected veteran status, disability, or any other legally protected status.

Our employee resource groups (ERGs) offer strong support networks for their members and are open to all employees. Our current groups include: Africa, Middle East, Central Asia Network, Black Employees at Lilly, Chinese Culture Network, Japanese International Leadership Network (JILN), Lilly India Network, Organization of Latinx at Lilly (OLA), PRIDE (LGBTQ Allies), Veterans Leadership Network (VLN), Women’s Initiative for Leading at Lilly (WILL), enAble (for people with disabilities). Learn more about all of our groups.

Actual compensation will depend on a candidate’s education, experience, skills, and geographic location. The anticipated wage for this position is

$123,000 - $180,400

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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