Associate Director, Talent Analytics & Assessment Science

100 Eli Lilly and Company; Indianapolis (IN); Hybrid; USD 132,000 - 194,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k) plan

Pension

Medical, dental, vision benefits

Flexible benefits program

Life insurance

Well-being benefits

Job summary

Lilly is seeking a seasoned professional in industrial-organizational psychology to own enterprise listening strategies and the science behind Lilly’s talent assessment approaches. You will oversee validation, adverse‑impact analyses, and analytics to translate listening data into actionable leadership narratives.

Remote options are considered with a strong preference for Indianapolis onsite involvement; up to 10% travel may be required.

Qualifications

• Master’s degree in I-O psychology or closely related field.
• 5+ years in psychometrics, assessment/selection science, and validation methodology.
• Experience owning or leading enterprise employee listening or survey programs.
• Working knowledge of statistics and analytics methods for impact analysis and evaluation.

Responsibilities

• Own and evolve the enterprise employee listening strategy and survey design.
• Lead validation and adverse-impact analyses for assessment tools.
• Conduct impact analysis linking listening and talent management to workforce outcomes.
• Lead change management for new listening and analytics capabilities.

Skills

Psychometrics

Assessment science

Validation methodology

Statistics

Stakeholder management

AI in HR

Survey analytics

Storytelling

Education

Master’s degree in industrial-organizational psychology

Tools

Power BI

Qualtrics

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.

Position Overview

This role brings scientific rigor to how Lilly listens to its workforce, assesses talent, and makes data‑informed people decisions. It is a three‑part role: own the enterprise employee listening strategy; lead the science behind Lilly’s assessment approaches across talent management; and apply focused analytics — impact, evaluation, and fairness — that turn listening and assessment data into action.

Responsibilities

Employee Listening Strategy

• Own and evolve Lilly’s enterprise employee listening strategy, including Pulse, Leadership Compass, lifecycle, and ad hoc surveys
• Define new methodologies for listening leveraging AI and other data insights
• Define survey architecture and question design in partnership with survey methodology and HR stakeholders
• Connect listening outputs to enterprise frameworks (e.g. Team Lilly) and translate results into suggested actions and leadership narratives
• Set standards for anonymity, suppression thresholds, and ethical use of employee voice data
• Identify gaps in listening coverage and recommend new channels or methods (always‑on, lifecycle, focus groups)

Assessment Science (Talent Acquisition & Development)

• Collaborate with Talent leaders to shape and steward the assessment strategy across the talent lifecycle, spanning selection and development
• On the selection side: guide design, validation, and implementation of hiring assessments; conduct job analyses; and ensure legal and professional defensibility
• On the development side: provide consultation on 360‑degree feedback, and leadership and high‑potential assessment approaches that inform development, succession, and enterprise capability building
• Lead validation and adverse‑impact analyses for assessment and selection tools — including sampling plans, criterion‑ and content‑validation studies, and disparate‑impact testing — ensuring instruments are scientifically sound, legally defensible, and compliant with professional and regulatory standards

Analytics, Evaluation & Responsible Use

• Conduct impact analysis connecting listening, assessment, and talent management program data to workforce outcomes (including but not limited to retention, engagement, performance, quality‑of‑hire)
• Collaborate with talent management leaders on talent analytics projects
• Build team and organizational effectiveness diagnostics
• Design and execute program evaluations to measure whether HR interventions and listening‑driven actions achieved intended results
• Apply survey analytics methods — composite scoring, favorability trends, driver analysis, segmentation — to employee listening data
• Partner with people analytics on bias and fairness reviews of AI/ML‑enabled people analytics outputs and act on findings
• Serve as the function’s lead for workforce and talent insight storytelling — translating complex, multi‑source analyses into clear, narrative‑led recommendations and executive‑ready visualizations for senior leaders
• Partner with HR business partners to develop ready‑to‑use Pulse and Leadership Compass analytics for their business areas
• Partner with the broader people analytics team on methodology, while retaining ownership of listening, assessment, and evaluation‑specific analysis rather than broad predictive‑modeling work
• Lead change management efforts for new listening and analytics capabilities

Basic Qualifications

• Master’s degree in industrial‑organizational psychology, organizational behaviour, or a closely related field.
• 5+ years experience in psychometrics, assessment/selection science, and validation methodology, including experience independently owning and defending a validation study and an adverse‑impact analysis, regardless of degree.
• Experience owning or leading an enterprise employee listening or survey program.
• Working knowledge of statistics and analytics methods sufficient to perform impact analysis, program evaluation, and survey analytics independently

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 or visas for this role, including but not limited to F‑1 CPT, F‑1 OPT, F‑1 STEM OPT, J‑1, H‑1B, TN, O‑1, E‑3, H‑1B1, or L‑1.

Additional Skills / Preferences

• Demonstrated business acumen, including focus on business impact, working to accelerated timelines, and making defensible recommendations from real world data
• Strong stakeholder‑management, influence, and communication skills, including experience presenting to HR and business leadership
• Ability to operate as a connector across strategy, analytics, and technical teams without direct authority over all of them
• Experience applying AI in HR‑related work, effectively using in appropriate circumstances and avoiding when not suitable
• Experience evaluating AI/ML outputs for bias, fairness, or reliability concerns
• Experience building AI enabled analytics products
• Experience with survey platforms and analytics tooling (Power BI, Qualtrics, or equivalent)
• Experience partnering across talent management and HR in a large, complex organization

Other Information

While remote candidates will be considered, there is a strong preference for this role to be based in Indianapolis, Indiana with onsite expectations at least 3 days per week.

US working hours are required, with flexibility to adjust schedule as needed to collaborate with global colleagues.

Up to 10% business travel.

Lilly is proud to be an EEO Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of age, race, color, religion, gender identity, sex, gender expression, sexual orientation, genetic information, ancestry, 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 are open to all employees. Our current groups include: Africa, Middle East, Central Asia (AMECA), Black Employees at Lilly (BE@Lilly), Chinese Culture Network (CCN), EnAble, Evolve, Lilly Indian Network (LIN), Organization of Latinx at Lilly (OLA), Pride (LGBTQ+ Allies), Veterans Leadership Network (VLN) and Women’s Initiative for Leading at Lilly (WILL).

Actual compensation will depend on a candidate’s education, experience, skills, and geographic location. The anticipated wage for this position is $132,000 - $193,600 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.

#WeAreLilly At Lilly we strive to ensure our employees are part of a team that cares about them and our shared purpose of making life better for those around the world. How do we do this? We continue to look for ways to include, innovate, accelerate and deliver while maintaining integrity, excellence and respect for people. We hope that you seek to join us on our journey as we create medicine and deliver improved outcomes for patients across the globe! #WeAreLilly