Enterprise Meeting Services - Manager

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.

Organization Overview:

At Lilly, we make a difference for people in the world over by discovering, developing, and delivering medicines that help people live longer, healthier, and more active lives.

One of Lilly´s most important corporate objectives are to improve patient outcomes. A key step in achieving this goal is to improve our relationship with external health care providers and health care organizations ensuring a positive experience across all touchpoints that include Thought leaders, consultants, speakers, external stakeholders, and employees, ensuring that this does not limit Lilly´s understanding of a disease, potential treatments and the patients, Health care provider´s and payer´s needs. Therefore, we must prioritize how we engage with health care providers through every touchpoint to ensure we are meeting the needs of the patients we serve.

Responsibilities:

· Comply with Global Standards on meetings and events interactions with external parties and all other relevant Lilly policies and procedures. Be responsive for audit readiness and compliance requests.

· Understand meeting program and needs of meeting owners and Thought Leader relationship owners and consult by providing project management expertise and direction to ensure fulfillment of meeting expectations.

· Support the meeting program through different systems and tools focused on meeting planning & contracting process. Initiate and facilitate optimization opportunities connected with processes, systems, and people.

· Establish and maintain internal strategic partnerships with compliance, finance, procurement, and other functions that can facilitate cross functional work.

· Effectively lead, collaborate, and manage multiple relationships with external partners to positively impact customer experience.

Basic Requirements:

· Bachelor degree - MBA preferred

· Fluent English needed - Verbal and written communication skills

· Knowledge and expertise using systems, applications or devices as MS Office 365, SAP, others

· Minimum of 3 years in Meeting Management experience

- Ideally pharmaceutical industry experience.

Additional Skills/Preferences:

· Requires business and/or technical knowledge developed through education or experience using discipline and understanding of key business drivers. Overtime should be able to improve processes, products, and services.

· Be able to create impact at different levels: immediate peers and across teams.

· May lead small to medium projects with small to moderate risk. Effective and agile communications skills are needed.

· Requires analysis of possible solutions to solve and anticipate a range of day-to-day problems including standard and non-standard requests. Be able to provide support on solving issues, within a team or multiple teams over time

Additional Information:

· Travel 10%

· Position location (remote - Italy HUB): the process is open for all candidates across Italy HUB countries

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 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.

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