Senior Director – Enterprise Pandemic Preparedness and Response

🔥 18 hours ago

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $160.5k - $283.8k / 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

• Own Lilly's enterprise pandemic preparedness and infectious disease response strategy • Establish policies, standards, governance processes, readiness expectations, objectives, metrics, and assessments • Advise executive leadership on emerging infectious disease threats, preparedness investments, and outbreak-related business risks • Develop and continuously improve enterprise-wide pandemic and infectious disease response plans • Prepare strategic briefings, recommendations, and risk assessments for executive leadership, governance committees, and the Board • Oversee global infectious disease surveillance, epidemiological intelligence, and public health advisories • Translate outbreak signals into business-relevant risk assessments and strategic recommendations • Lead assessments of pandemic-related vulnerabilities across facilities, supplier networks, clinical trials, and critical business processes • Provide strategic leadership for continuity planning across manufacturing, supply chain, clinical development, and commercial operations • Establish surge capacity and contingency strategies for critical medicines and vaccines • Advise on clinical trial continuity and patient access during outbreaks • Lead and coordinate enterprise response activities during infectious disease events and public health emergencies • Serve within Lilly's incident command and crisis management structure • Direct cross-functional response teams and mitigation and recovery strategies • Coordinate stakeholder efforts to protect employees and maintain business continuity • Support executive communications and stakeholder engagement • Represent Lilly in industry coalitions, public-private partnerships, professional organizations, and preparedness initiatives • Develop relationships with public health agencies, regulators, academia, NGOs, and industry groups • Establish enterprise preparedness training, simulations, and exercise programs • Lead executive tabletop exercises and enterprise-wide response simulations • Drive after-action reviews and lessons learned • Foster organizational preparedness and resilience

🎯 Requirements

• PhD, PharmD, MD, or equivalent advanced scientific or medical degree in Public Health, Epidemiology, Infectious Disease, Virology, Microbiology, Pharmacy, Medicine, Global Health Security, or related field • 10+ years of progressively responsible experience in public health preparedness, infectious disease management, pharmaceutical operations, emergency management, business continuity, global health security, or related disciplines • Demonstrated success leading enterprise-wide preparedness, crisis management, or risk management programs • Experience advising senior executives on complex risk, preparedness, public health, or operational resilience matters • Ability to influence and lead cross-functional teams without direct reporting authority • Strong understanding of regulatory and public health frameworks relevant to the pharmaceutical industry and public health emergencies • Knowledge of pharmaceutical supply chain, manufacturing, clinical development, and commercial operations • Direct leadership experience responding to major infectious disease outbreaks or pandemics • Experience engaging with FDA, EMA, WHO, CDC, BARDA, CEPI, HHS, or similar organizations • Experience briefing executive committees, boards of directors, or governmental leaders • Certification in emergency management (CEM), FEMA ICS/NIMS, or equivalent preparedness frameworks • Experience with epidemiological modeling, health security analytics, and decision-support tools • Experience working in GxP-regulated manufacturing, clinical development, or vaccine and infectious disease environments

🏖️ Benefits

• Company bonus depending partly on company and individual performance • Company-sponsored 401(k) • Pension • Vacation benefits • Medical, dental, vision, and prescription drug benefits • Healthcare and/or dependent day care flexible spending accounts • Life insurance and death benefits • Time off and leave of absence benefits • Employee assistance program • Fitness benefits • Employee clubs and activities