Executive Director - Healthcare Improvement Hub – Enterprise (Global) Implementation Science Specialist; Physician (MD

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The translation of scientific evidence into real-world clinical practice remains one of the most persistent challenges in healthcare. Many effective treatments take too long to be integrated into routine care, and system-level barriers — rather than a lack of evidence — are often the primary obstacle.

The Global Healthcare Improvement (HCI) Hub serves as Lilly's enterprise center of excellence for Healthcare Improvement, supporting the design, execution, evaluation, and scale-up of healthcare improvement initiatives across business units and geographies. Within this context, the Enterprise Implementation Science Specialist is a strategic leader who combines Business Unit-facing HCI leadership with deep expertise in implementation science.

This role has two interconnected responsibilities: (1) serve as the HCI Lead for an assigned Business Unit, leading the strategy, execution, management, and scale-up of the HCI portfolio in close partnership with BU Medical Affairs and other key stakeholders; and (2) advance implementation science as an enterprise capability, helping Lilly apply fit-for-purpose implementation science methods to strengthen the design, evaluation, adoption, sustainability, and scale of healthcare improvement initiatives and selected evidence-generation efforts where implementation science adds value.

Business Unit HCI Leadership

• Serve as the HCI Lead for an assigned Business Unit, partnering closely with BU Medical Affairs and other relevant stakeholders to identify priority customer and care gaps aligned to BU strategy and healthcare system need.
• Lead the strategy, design, implementation, management, and scale-up of collaborative non-grant healthcare improvement initiatives for the assigned BU.
• Support the impact of grant-supported HCI initiatives by identifying opportunities for scale-up, broader dissemination, publication, and practical application where appropriate.
• Ensure HCI initiatives are designed with clear objectives, meaningful implementation and outcome measures, and a focus on measurable impact for patients, providers, and healthcare systems.
• Partner with BU leaders to ensure HCI priorities, investments, and external engagement are aligned with BU strategy, governance, and funding processes.
• Help identify where healthcare improvement approaches are most likely to create meaningful change in care delivery, patient outcomes, provider behavior, or healthcare system performance.

Enterprise Implementation Science Leadership

• Serve as a subject matter expert in implementation science across the enterprise, advancing awareness and understanding of implementation science as a practical tool to improve adoption, scale, sustainability, and real-world uptake of evidence-based innovations.
• Advise internal teams on the fit-for-purpose use of implementation science frameworks, methods, measures, and study designs.
• Partner with HEOR, Clinical Development, Medical Affairs, and other relevant functions to identify where implementation science can strengthen HCI initiatives, real-world research, post-launch learning, or other applied evidence-generation efforts.
• Help create repeatable tools, frameworks, guidance, and approaches that enable teams to incorporate implementation science more consistently over time.
• Build internal capability in implementation science through consultation, coaching, education, and collaborative problem-solving.

Scientific Rigor, Evaluation, and Learning

• Strengthen the methodological rigor of HCI initiatives by advising on implementation design, evaluation strategies, implementation outcomes, sustainability planning, and dissemination approaches.
• Apply appropriate implementation science and healthcare improvement methods to ensure initiatives generate actionable learning and are grounded in sound theory and practical relevance.
• Support robust evaluation approaches across both collaborative and grant-supported HCI efforts, as appropriate.
• Help distinguish when an initiative requires practical implementation support, a formal evaluation strategy, publication planning, or engagement from additional expert functions.
• Translate learning from HCI and implementation science efforts into scalable approaches, internal playbooks, and external dissemination opportunities.

Cross-functional Partnership and Influence

• Act as a strategic connector between the HCI Hub and functions such as BU Medical Affairs, HEOR, Clinical Development, Design, and other enterprise teams.
• Influence without authority to align stakeholders around where and how implementation science can strengthen healthcare improvement and selected evidence-generation efforts.
• Support affiliates and cross-functional teams in applying HCI and implementation science approaches in ways that reflect local priorities, context, and healthcare system realities.
• Contribute to the HCI Hub's center-of-excellence model, including development of standards, capability-building resources, playbooks, and quality approaches.
• Communicate the value, rationale, progress, and impact of HCI and implementation science efforts clearly to senior leaders and key stakeholders.

Dissemination, Scale-up, and Sustainability

• Support dissemination of key findings and learning through publications, abstracts, posters, presentations, tools, and internal knowledge-sharing.
• Help ensure HCI initiatives and implementation science efforts are designed with sustainability, reproducibility, and scale in mind.
• Contribute to partnerships with external healthcare systems, academic institutions, professional societies, and other organizations where appropriate to strengthen learning and impact.
• Help identify opportunities for broader scale-up of successful HCI initiatives and associated tools, insights, and evidence.

Operational Excellence

• Ensure projects and initiatives are managed with discipline around scope, timelines, budget, governance, and compliance.
• Anticipate and proactively manage risks to initiative design, execution, evaluation, and sustainability.
• Contribute to continuous improvement of HCI Hub processes, reporting, technology, compliance frameworks, and implementation science-related tools and capabilities.
• Apply resources thoughtfully to maximize enterprise learning, practical value, and healthcare impact.

Role Scope Clarification:

• This role is not a standalone HEOR or Clinical Development role and does not independently own broad evidence-generation agendas outside appropriate partnership and governance.
• This role does not independently set Business Unit priorities; work is conducted in close partnership with BU Medical Affairs and aligned to BU strategy, governance, and funding.
• This role does not replace the responsibilities of HEOR, Clinical Development, Design Hub, or other scientific functions. Rather, it brings implementation science expertise to strengthen healthcare improvement and selected research efforts where appropriate.
• While the role may contribute expertise at different points in the evidence lifecycle, its primary focus is on healthcare improvement, implementation, adoption, scale-up, and sustainability, not end-to-end asset development leadership.
• This role sits in the HCI Hub because its primary mission is to improve the rigor, relevance, impact, and scalability of healthcare improvement work across Lilly.

Minimum Qualification Requirements:

• Medical Doctor must be board eligible or certified in a medical specialty relevant to the role or have completed the comparable level of post-medical school clinical training relevant to the country of hiring. U.S. trained physicians must have achieved board eligibility or certification. Foreign medical graduates in U.S. based jobs, who are not U.S. board eligible or certified may be hired directly for employment in the U.S. at the discretion of the Chief Medical Officer.
• Non-U.S. trained physicians must have completed education and training at a medical school that meets the requirements of the Liaison Committee on Medical Education (LCME).  For the recognized list of foreign medical schools and the disapproved list, see http://www.in.gov/pla/professions/medical-physicians-and-osteopathic-physicians-home/medical-licensing-information/#Approved_Disapproved_Foreign_Medical_Schools
• 8+ years of progressive experience in implementation science, health services research, healthcare improvement, quality improvement, real-world evidence, or a closely related field.
• Demonstrated experience applying implementation science methodologies to healthcare delivery, evidence translation, healthcare improvement, or applied research in real-world settings.
• Strong track record of leading complex cross-functional initiatives involving internal and external stakeholders.
• Demonstrated ability to translate scientific or methodological expertise into practical strategy, implementation, and measurable outcomes.
• Experience working within or in direct partnership with healthcare systems, provider organizations, public health organizations, academic institutions, or the life sciences industry

Other Information/Additional Preferences:

• Formal training or significant applied experience in implementation science.
• Experience working across Medical Affairs, HEOR, Clinical Development, healthcare systems, or public health settings.
• Familiarity with healthcare improvement and quality improvement approaches, including IHI frameworks and related methodologies that complement implementation science.
• Experience supporting evaluation design, implementation outcomes, and dissemination of findings in peer-reviewed or professional forums.
• Demonstrated ability to think and act globally, with a customer focus and a solutions orientation across diverse geographies and healthcare systems.
• Experience in compliance-driven environments, including pharmaceutical industry regulations and healthcare institution governance.
• Location is flexible in desired geography.
• Domestic and international travel and flexible working hours may be necessary (approximately 20%).

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Actual compensation will depend on a candidate’s education, experience, skills, and geographic location.  The anticipated wage for this position is

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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