Eli Lilly

Thought Leader Liaison - Retina, Lilly Regenerative Medicine

Eli Lilly$154K — $248K *
US-AnywhereRemote in United States
Pharmaceuticals & Biotech
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree
  • 5+ years of ophthalmology or retina experience, preferably in commercial, marketing, or sales
  • Valid driver's license and acceptable driving record
  • Ability to travel approximately 50%
  • Advanced degree (preferred) in MBA, MPH, or related field

Responsibilities

  • Build and maintain relationships with KOLs to gather insights on healthcare dynamics and payer policies
  • Conduct field engagements to gather practice-level insights and develop engagement plans
  • Translate KOL insights into commercial strategy and messaging with the LRM team
  • Track evolving site-of-care and reimbursement dynamics affecting retina practices
  • Represent Lilly at retina congresses and synthesize competitive landscape post-events
  • Maintain awareness of emerging retina thought leaders and evolving treatment standards
  • Collaborate cross-functionally to ensure compliance and aligned KOL engagement

Benefits

  • Comprehensive benefit program including medical, dental, and vision
  • 401(k) and pension eligibility
  • Vacation and paid time off benefits
  • Flexible spending accounts for healthcare and dependent care
  • Employee assistance program and wellness benefits
  • Participation in employee clubs and activities
Full Job Description
About the Role

The Thought Leader Liaison (TLL), Retina is a field-based commercial strategist and trusted advisor who embeds the voice of retina specialists and thought leaders into Lilly's commercial decisions for the retina portfolio - beginning with wet age-related macular degeneration (wet AMD) and extending to additional retina assets as the pipeline matures. The TLL translates external expert and market perspective into strategic direction across brand planning, launch readiness, and access strategy. This role sits within the Commercial Lilly Regenerative Medicine organization.

Core Competencies

  • Shape Strategy - Integrate thought leader and market perspectives into commercial strategy, influencing brand planning, launch readiness, and long-term franchise direction.
  • Build Partnerships - Cultivate trusted, long-term relationships within the retina community across academic and community settings in the US and Globally.
  • Translate Insights - Create exceptional insight generation with the ability to uncover unmet needs, practice challenges, competitive perceptions and evolving physician attitudes then taking those insights and developing actionable commercial intelligence for brand and access strategy.
  • Navigate Access & Practice Dynamics - Surface healthcare system, site-of-care, and payer-policy factors shaping practice decision-making and patient access.
  • Safeguard Credibility - Uphold scientific rigor, compliance, and ethical standards in all external engagement.


Responsibilities

KOL Relationship Management & Insight Generation
  • Build and maintain relationships with emerging and existing KOLs to support insights generation on topics relevant to commercial strategy, including but not limited to healthcare system dynamics and payer policies impacting practice decision making and patient access.
  • Conduct regular field-based engagements to gather practice-level, competitive, and market-access insights to understand their priorities and role(s) within the broader retina community, and then develop individualized engagement plans. Synthesize insights into structured input for brand and franchise business planning.

Commercial Strategy & Market Shaping
  • Partner with the LRM commercial team to translate KOL and market insight into strategy, messaging, and launch planning.
  • Track and report on evolving site-of-care, reimbursement, and payer-policy dynamics affecting retina practice patterns.
  • Support pre-launch and launch readiness for wet AMD and, in the future, for pipeline retina assets.

Congress & External Landscape
  • Represent Lilly at priority retina congresses and conferences; coordinate a cross-functional approach to deliver a post-meeting synthesis of the competitive and scientific landscape.
  • Maintain a current view of current and emerging retina thought leaders and evolving standards of care, e.g., by attending podium presentations, scientific sessions, and external forums to understand emerging data, competitive developments, and evolving physician perspectives to inform commercial strategy.

Cross-Functional Collaboration & Compliance
  • Partner cross-functionally with Medical, Market Access, Marketing, Corporate Affairs, Operations and Compliance to ensure aligned, compliant engagement.
  • Complete required training; adhere to all compliance, legal, and regulatory guidelines governing commercial-KOL interactions.


Basic Qualifications
  • Bachelor's degree
  • 5+ years of ophthalmology or retina experience with specific experience in commercial, marketing, or sales strongly preferred.
  • Valid driver's license and acceptable driving record.
  • Ability to travel approximately 50%.


Preferred Qualifications
  • Advanced degree (MBA, MPH, or related).
  • Prior TLL, marketing, or launch experience in retina/ophthalmology or another specialty market.
  • Established relationships with deep retina/ophthalmology expertise and credibility with a strong understanding of the disease state, treatment landscape, emerging science, clinical data and evolving standard of care.
  • Solid understanding of the US payer and reimbursement landscape for retina therapies (e.g., site-of-care, buy-and-bill dynamics).
  • Strong communication, influence, and cross-functional collaboration skills


Additional Information
  • Travel: Est. 30-50%
  • Based near a major airport

Actual compensation will depend on a candidate's education, experience, skills, and geographic location. The anticipated wage for this position is
$154,500 - $248,600

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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