Associate Director - Pricing

Eli Lilly Eli Lilly · Pharma · ON

Associate Director of Pricing at Eli Lilly Canada, responsible for developing and optimizing pricing and access strategies for the company's pharmaceutical portfolio. This role involves analyzing market data, informing reimbursement decisions, coordinating contracting, and managing regulatory compliance with PMPRB. The position requires significant pharmaceutical industry experience, strong analytical and communication skills, and the ability to influence without authority. While not directly building AI, the role leverages AI tools to automate work and requires understanding of AI's impact on business strategy.

What you'd actually do

  1. Collaborate with Marketing, Market Access and Finance to provide critical quantitative inputs for pricing strategies
  2. Develop analyses to inform public and private payer reimbursement decisions
  3. Provide guidance to Market Access team on business cases and negotiation strategies
  4. Lead the internal launch price approval process
  5. Coordinate contracting process for Group Purchasing Organizations

Skills

Required

  • Bachelors’ Degree or equivalent
  • Significant pharmaceutical industry experience
  • Min. 5 years of experience in market access and/or related functions
  • Critical thinking
  • Innovative thinking
  • Strong business acumen
  • Excellent quantitative technical ability
  • Highly capable in Microsoft Excel
  • Attention to detail
  • Strong written and oral communication skills
  • Proven problem solving skills
  • Bias for action
  • Proven ability to influence without authority
  • Demonstrated ability to coach and train towards excellence

Nice to have

  • MBA or MSc in Finance
  • Health sciences background
  • Action-oriented
  • Managing complex projects in a fast-paced environment
  • Understanding of PMPRB regulations
  • Health technology assessment
  • Health economic methodologies
  • Canadian market access environment
  • Bilingual (English / French)

What the JD emphasized

  • Significant pharmaceutical industry experience
  • Min. 5 years of experience in market access and/or related functions
  • Understanding of PMPRB regulations, health technology assessment, health economic methodologies, and Canadian market access environment