Senior Director, Counsel – Litigation, Legal Policy and Strategy

🕒 September 3

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $199.5k - $321.2k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

⚖️ Legal Counsel / General Counsel

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Eli Lilly and Company

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10,000+ employees

💊 Pharmaceuticals

🏥 Healthcare

🧬 Biotechnology

💰 $6.5M Post-IPO Debt - Eli Lilly on 2024-02

Pharmaceuticals • Healthcare • Biotechnology

Eli Lilly and Company is a multinational pharmaceutical company that researches, develops, manufactures, and markets prescription medicines across multiple therapeutic areas including diabetes, oncology, immunology, neuroscience, and pain. Headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana, Lilly is known for its extensive R&D, clinical development, and global commercialization of biologic and small-molecule drugs. The company focuses on drug discovery, clinical trials, regulatory approvals, and large-scale pharmaceutical manufacturing and distribution.

📋 Description

• Develop and execute strategy and advise senior leadership and the business on litigation, policy engagement, and advocacy affecting the pharmaceutical industry • Identify and assess affirmative litigation and advocacy opportunities advancing Lilly’s policy objectives • Provide litigation counsel to Government Affairs, Communications, Regulatory Affairs, and Lilly Value and Access • Draft and review communications, comment letters, and related materials • Manage litigation, government investigations, and disputes from strategy through resolution • Lead and manage outside counsel, including budgets • Coordinate internal efforts to deliver results within approved budgets • Engage government agencies, state attorneys general, trade associations, industry, and external policy and counsel networks • Build and maintain relationships across Lilly’s legal and business functions • Monitor and analyze litigation, enforcement, and policy developments affecting drug pricing, access, and reimbursement • Report to the Associate Vice President, Assistant General Counsel – Litigation, Legal Policy & Strategy

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree and J.D. • Active license to practice law • Clerkship on a federal court of appeals • Minimum of 8 years of experience as a practicing attorney • Experience managing complex litigation and developing and executing strategy at a global company and/or top law firm • Proven success in complex litigation at trial and appellate levels, including discovery, dispositive motions, trial, briefing, and arguing appeals • Experience litigating constitutional claims, statutory and regulatory challenges, and APA matters • Experience engaging on complex policy issues and mastering complex new subject matter quickly • Strong client-service orientation and executive presence • Strong interpersonal, collaboration, judgment, and communication skills • Ability to handle highly confidential information • Authorized to work in the United States full-time; Lilly will not sponsor work authorization or visas • Preferred: experience with class actions, Medicare, Medicaid, 340B, AKS, False Claims Act, pharmaceutical or highly regulated industries, artificial intelligence and emerging technology

🏖️ Benefits

• Company bonus depending in part on company and individual performance • Company-sponsored 401(k) • Pension • Vacation benefits • Medical, dental, vision, and prescription drug benefits • Flexible benefits, including healthcare and/or dependent day care flexible spending accounts • Life insurance and death benefits • Time off and leave of absence benefits • Well-being benefits, including employee assistance program, fitness benefits, and employee clubs and activities