Associate Director, ExploR&D Consultation Agreements

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🏄 California, Massachusetts – Remote

🏄 California – Remote 🍂 Massachusetts – Remote

💵 $132k - $193.6k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

👔 Director

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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

• Lead end-to-end negotiation of consultation agreements with biotech partners across preclinical and development matters • Move a high volume of agreements through negotiation to signature efficiently • Serve as the primary interface for biotechs engaging ExploR&D through the consultation pathway • Translate scientific scope into commercial terms • Partner with ExploR&D leadership and subject-matter experts to structure consultations aligned with Lilly's R&D capabilities • Draft, redline, and finalize consultation agreements with Legal • Translate technical scope into precise, bounded work plans defining deliverables and responsibilities • Negotiate change orders and amendments as scope, timelines, or deliverables evolve • Communicate with biotech counterparts about contract structure, timelines, and Lilly's engagement model • Maintain deal tracking, pipeline visibility, and cycle-time discipline across the consultation portfolio • Identify and drive process improvements to reduce friction, standardize terms, and shorten time-to-signature • Partner with Finance, Legal, and Compliance to ensure consultations meet governance, risk, and approval standards • Potentially extend scope into alliance management responsibilities over time

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in any field • 7+ years of relevant experience in business development, contracting, or R&D consulting • Authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis • Lilly will not provide support for or sponsor work authorization or visas • Deep R&D fluency across drug discovery and/or development • Demonstrated experience negotiating agreements with external partners in biotech, pharma, or life sciences • Direct experience drafting, redlining, and executing contracts • Strong command of contract terms and structure • Experience managing multiple concurrent contracts with high attention to detail and disciplined follow-through • Experience with the early-stage biotech ecosystem or external innovation • Alliance management experience with biotech companies • Excellent written and verbal communication skills • Ability to distill complex scientific and contractual terms for varied audiences • Comfort operating with ambiguity and building repeatable processes from the ground up • Strong cross-functional collaboration skills across Legal, Finance, and R&D

🏖️ Benefits

• Company bonus depending 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 • Up to 10% travel