ICEE PRA Associate Director

Eli Lilly and Company; Sesto Fiorentino; On-site; EUR 71,000 - 105,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension plan

Healthcare benefits

Well-being benefits

Flex benefits

Job summary

Lilly in Italy seeks an Associate Director Pricing, Reimbursement and Access (PRA) for ICEE to translate global and international access strategies into concrete market plans that enable successful launches and sustained patient access across ICEE markets.

You will partner with PRA peers to prepare negotiation strategies and business cases, summarize portfolio status for leadership, run launch-readiness workshops, and shape pricing, timing and access assumptions in cross-market plans.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required; advanced degree preferred.
• 6-8+ years of pharmaceutical experience, incl. 3-4 years in pricing/reimbursement/market access.
• Knowledge of pricing/reimbursement in CEE and/or Israel.
• Strong analytical, modeling, and portfolio presentation skills.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management.
• Ability to manage multiple markets in a matrixed environment.
• Fluency in English.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain knowledge of payer needs to anticipate requirements.
• Act as therapy area expert by understanding treatment pathways and data.
• Work with ICEE affiliates to prepare PRA documents and tools.
• Partner with ICEE affiliates to mitigate risks and capitalize on opportunities.
• Implement reimbursement and access plans with ICEE affiliate PRA leads.
• Share best practices within the Hub and IBU.
• Represent ICEE PRA needs to IBU and support rollouts of PRA strategy.

Skills

Fluency in English

Analytical skills

Modeling skills

Stakeholder management

Education

Bachelor's degree

Advanced degree in health economics or life sciences

Job description

At Lilly, the work is demanding because patients are waiting. We unite caring with discovery to help make life better for people around the world, knowing that every decision, every detail, and every day matters. Headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana, our over 50,000 employees around the globe take on complex challenges to discover and deliver life‑changing medicines, strengthen how health is understood and managed, and support the communities we serve. This is hard, urgent, selfless work—but it’s work worth doing. If you’re driven by purpose and ready to bring your best to work that truly matters for patients, we invite you to join us.

The Role

The Associate Director Pricing, Reimbursement and Access (PRA) for ICEE supports the Senior Director PRA, ICEE in planning and executing market access initiatives that enable successful launches and sustainable access to Lilly's portfolio across ICEE markets. Working closely with PRA colleagues across the Hub, the role translates Global and International access strategies into practical, market‑specific plans.

The Associate Director partners with PRA colleagues to prepare negotiation strategies and business cases for assigned markets and products, bringing insight gathering, scenario planning, and learnings from other markets. The role helps colleagues prepare business cases that clearly reflect the negotiation strategy and set out assumptions, risks, financial impact, and leadership asks, to support timely internal approval.

The role is the link between the International BU (IBU) and local PRA teams, and represents the Hub. The Associate Director maintains an overview of the entire portfolio, summarizing key developments, access status, risks, and opportunities for the Senior Director and IBU. The role also organizes launch‑readiness workshops, builds sound pricing, timing, and access assumptions into business plans, shares best practices across markets, monitors changes in healthcare policy and reimbursement, and identifies ways to simplify PRA processes in line with the Accelerate Reach and Scale mindset.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain a thorough knowledge of the payer needs in order to identify and anticipate future payer needs, constraints and requirements that impact the therapeutic area.
• Act as therapeutic area expert by understanding the treatment pathways, clinical data package & keep up to date to competitors data & access situation
• Work very closely with ICEE affiliates on the preparation of PRA documents & tools to secure fast reimbursement & access
• Partner with ICEE affiliates in developing plans to mitigate risk and / or capitalize on opportunities
• Partner with ICEE Affiliate PRA Leads in implementing reimbursement & access plans
• Share best practices with other affiliates within the Hub and IBU
• Act as the point of contact for IBU PRA Team in order to represent ICEE Affiliates National PRA needs
• Partner with IBU PRA Team for rollout within the ICEE of the PRA strategy, materials, tools+

Qualifications And Experience

• Bachelor's degree required; advanced degree in health economics, pharmacy, life sciences, business, or a related field preferred.
• 6-8+ years of pharmaceutical experience, including at least 3-4 years in pricing, reimbursement, or market access.
• Working knowledge of pricing and reimbursement systems in CEE and/or Israel.
• Strong analytical and modeling skills (pricing, budget impact, business cases), with the ability to distill complex negotiation strategies and portfolio developments into clear, concise recommendations for senior leadership.
• Strong communication, stakeholder management, and influencing skills.
• Ability to manage multiple markets and priorities in a matrixed environment.
• Fluency in English

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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

€71.250 - €104.500

Full-time equivalent employees may also 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 pension plan; vacation benefits; eligibility for healthcare benefits; flexible benefits (if applicable) 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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