At Lilly, we unite caring with discovery to make life better for people around the world. We are a global healthcare leader headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana. Our employees around the world work to discover and bring life-changing medicines to those who need them, improve the understanding and management of disease, and give back to our communities through philanthropy and volunteerism. We give our best effort to our work, and we put people first. We’re looking for people who are determined to make life better for people around the world.
Actual compensation will depend on a candidate’s education, experience, skills, and geographic location. The anticipated wage for this position is
$57,750 - $129,800
We are seeking an experienced Legal Automation team member to join the newly-established Innovation Hub within the Legal function to drive the development and deployment of automation solutions tailored to the function. This key role will focus on designing and implementing advanced workflows and tools to streamline processes, enhance efficiency, and address complex business challenges within the Legal function. The ideal candidate will have deep expertise in automation technologies, a strong understanding of corporate/legal business workflows, and the ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver impactful solutions.
Are you interested in a role that would use your familiarity with integrating automation solutions across enterprise systems and ensuring data integrity? Come join the Lilly team and impact patient solutions today!
What You’ll Do:
- Automation Development & Deployment: Lead the design, development, and deployment of automation workflows to address Legal’s unique use cases.
- Business Process Optimization: Analyze existing workflows and collaborate with Legal collaborators to identify inefficiencies, prioritize opportunities, and implement solutions that improve productivity and reduce manual effort.
- Collaborative Development: Work alongside attorneys, Tech@Lilly, and other members of the Legal Innovation Hub to understand key challenges and deliver tailored solutions.
- Complex and Citizen-Led Automation: Develop scalable, enterprise-grade automations while supporting and enabling citizen-led development efforts within the Legal team.
- Integration Management: Build integrations across systems, ensuring automation solutions are cohesive, reliable, and compliant with data governance standards.
- Technical Leadership: Serve as the primary resource for deploying automation technologies, mentoring business counterparts, and sharing best practices for sustainable solution development.
- Metrics and Impact Assessment: Work closely with the Legal PMO to define and track success metrics for automation projects, delivering dashboards and reports to measure efficiency gains and business value.
How You’ll Succeed:
- Technical Expertise: Leverage a deep understanding of automation and data transformation tools (e.g., UiPath, Automation Anywhere, Alteryx or similar) to design solutions that agree with Legal’s strategic goals.
- Problem Solving: Use creative thinking, collaboration and understanding of Legal stakeholder needs, and advanced technical skills to solve complex business problems and develop reusable automation components.
- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner effectively with Legal, IT, and external vendors to ensure automation solutions meet both technical and business requirements.
- Agility and Scalability: Build solutions that are secure, scalable, able to support business continuity, and resilient, enabling the Legal department to adapt quickly to evolving business needs.
Basic Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree, preferably in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related technical field, with 3+ years of experience in automation development or software engineering.
- Qualified applicants must be authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis. Lilly will not provide support for or sponsor work authorization and/or visas for this role.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Proven experience designing and deploying automation workflows using tools like UiPath, Automation Anywhere, Power Automate, or similar platforms.
- Strong programming skills in at least one language (e.g., Python, JavaScript, VBA) with the ability to adapt to new technologies quickly.
- Experience analyzing business processes, mapping workflows, and designing automation solutions that deliver measurable results.
- Experience working in or with corporate legal departments, with an understanding of legal processes and workflows.
- Proficiency in running automation projects end-to-end, including stakeholder engagement, development, testing, and deployment.
- Knowledge of process mining, RPA+AI use cases, and other advanced technologies to optimize workflows.
Lilly is dedicated to helping individuals with disabilities to actively engage in the workforce, ensuring equal opportunities when vying for positions. If you require accommodation to submit a resume for a position at Lilly, please complete the accommodation request form (https://careers.lilly.com/us/en/workplace-accommodation) for further assistance. Please note this is for individuals to request an accommodation as part of the application process and any other correspondence will not receive a response.
Lilly is an EEO/Affirmative Action Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of age, race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, protected veteran status, disability or any other legally protected status.
Our employee resource groups (ERGs) offer strong support networks for their members and help our company develop talented individuals for future leadership roles. Our current groups include: Africa, Middle East, Central Asia Network, African American Network, Chinese Culture Network, Early Career Professionals, Japanese International Leadership Network (JILN), Lilly India Network, Organization of Latinos at Lilly, PRIDE (LGBTQ + Allies), Veterans Leadership Network, Women’s Network, Working and Living with Disabilities. Learn more about all of our groups.
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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