Gulf Insights & Analytics Lead — AI Strategy

Eli Lilly and Company; Dubai; On-site; AED 350,000 - 550,000; Full time

Job summary

Lilly is seeking a senior analytics leader for the Gulf affiliate in the UAE to drive data-driven decisions and an AI-enabled engagement model across HCPs and consumers. You will own the analytics roadmap, lead market research, and ensure governance across UAE, Kuwait, and Qatar.

This is a high-impact role requiring senior stakeholder influence and expertise in modern data ecosystems. The role emphasizes data quality, privacy, and actionable insights to shape commercial decisions and engagement

Qualifications

• 8+ years in analytics, insights or data-driven commercial roles.
• Experience influencing senior stakeholders without direct authority.
• Fluency in modern data ecosystems: analytics platforms, data governance, AI/ML, personalization and next-best-action, CRM and digital engagement platforms.
• Comfort working with imperfect and incomplete data, and the judgement to know when it's good enough to act on.
• Experience in consumer products, FinTech, e-commerce, consulting or another data-mature sector is highly valued.

Responsibilities

• Lead advanced analytics and predictive work and translate it into recommendations leaders can act on.
• Own the Gulf affiliate's data and analytics roadmap.
• Partner with our technology organization and global teams to specify requirements, govern definitions and data quality, and progressively connect customer, engagement and commercial data into something the business trusts.
• Lead the market research function and the affiliate's insight agenda, anchored in the questions that actually matter to the business.
• Identify, prioritize and scale AI use cases with real commercial value, including personalization of engagements, next-best-action, forecasting and engagement optimization.
• Data governance and compliance as part of the build, not a check at the end, including UAE PDPL requirements and cross-border transfer constraints.
• Measurement and team leadership: establish a consistent framework for measuring engagement and investments.
• Produce a single agreed performance view for the Gulf leadership team, with definitions the business has signed up to...
• Deliver a prioritized data and analytics roadmap, agreed with the technology team, with the first tranche delivered.
• HCP engagement and aggregated consumer activation views for obesity to inform engagement planning.
• AI and advanced analytics use cases live and influencing commercial decisions.
• Rebuild the market research agenda around the affiliate's key strategic questions with measurable improvements.
• Data privacy and governance standards documented and operating across all three markets.

Skills

Analytics leadership

Stakeholder management

Data governance

AI/ML applications

CRM & digital engagement

Data-driven decision making

Tools

Analytics platforms

CRM systems

AI/ML tooling

Job description

Lilly is seeking a senior analytics leader for the Gulf affiliate in the UAE to drive data-driven decisions and an AI-enabled engagement model across HCPs and consumers. You will own the analytics roadmap, lead market research, and ensure governance across UAE, Kuwait, and Qatar.

This is a high-impact role requiring senior stakeholder influence and expertise in modern data ecosystems. The role emphasizes data quality, privacy, and actionable insights to shape commercial decisions and engagement