Medical Affairs Professional

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.

Responsibilities

In this role, you will put General Practitioners (GPs) at the center, as GPs play a pivotal role in the care of people living with cardiometabolic health conditions. Your main responsibility will be to strengthen collaboration within the cardiometabolic health cross‑functional team by aligning strategic and medical content, ensuring GPs are engaged as true partners—actively involving them in medical projects, gathering their insights, and supporting their continuous education.

You will lead specific projects from concept to completion, keeping the broader team informed on progress and objectives along the way. Beyond GP engagement, you will also support pharmacist engagement and patient‑centered education initiatives.

In addition, you will disseminate local scientific data by presenting at Lilly‑organized meetings, independent national and regional conferences, and internal staff meetings.

You also provide expert medical support to all aspects of the local business, to ultimately enhance the customers’ experience in interacting with the company, contribute to the development and review of promotional material, training of the sales force.

Business/customer support (pre and post launch support)

• In-depth product knowledge and knowledge of therapeutic area and the treatment armamentarium
• Understand and anticipate the scientific information needs of all local/regional customers
• Contribute to the development of medical strategies to support brand commercialization activities by working closely with the global Medical Affairs and brand teams, Global and local Real‑World Evidence (RWE), Corporate Affairs and Clinical Trial Management personnel
• Contribute actively on an ongoing basis to the strategic planning for currently marketed brands
• By offering scientific and creative input, contribute to the development, review, and approval of promotional materials for the brand team
• Support training for sales representatives, and other medical representatives
• Become familiar with market evolution and potential influence on the medical interventions for the product

Scientific Data Dissemination/Exchange

• Knowledge of and compliance with local laws and global policies with respect to data dissemination and interactions with external health care professionals
• Address the unsolicited scientific information needs of HCPs (if they cannot be answered by Medinfo service)
• Data sharing and contribution to educational meetings by providing topics/content, do the speaker briefings or being a speaker
• Organize advisory board meetings
• Development of slide sets and publications (abstracts, posters, manuscripts)
• Establish and maintain appropriate collaborations and relationships with scientific experts and thought leaders
• Develop and maintain appropriate collaborations and relationships with relevant professional societies
• Provide congress support (for example, availability to answer questions at exhibits, provide oral and poster presentations, staff medical booth, meet thought leaders, and participate in customer events)

Clinical Research

• Review strategic alignment of local Investigator Initiated Trial (IIT) proposals and guide in submission of the proposal
• Identify data gaps and generate RWE for getting or maintaining local access

Scientific/Technical Expertise and continued development

• Be aware of current trends and projections for clinical practice and access in the therapeutic area(s) relevant to the products, both near term (1‑2 years) and longer term (3‑5 years).
• Critically read and evaluate the relevant medical literature; know the status and data from competitive products, and keep updated with medical and other scientific developments relevant to the product
• Attend, contribute and participate in medical congresses/scientific symposia

General Responsibilities

• Medical leadership to foster collaboration and optimize productivity between the cross‑functional CMH team
• Follow‑up of the project budget
• Actively set and meet individual professional de