Director - Medical Affairs - Neuroscience, Türkiye

Director, Medical Affairs – Neuroscience, Türkiye

Position Summary

The Director, Medical Affairs – Neuroscience provides scientific, medical, and strategic leadership for Lilly’s Neuroscience portfolio in Türkiye. This role is responsible for shaping and executing the local medical strategy in alignment with global and regional objectives, ensuring scientific excellence, patient-centered decision-making, and compliant medical governance across all activities.

As a senior medical leader, this individual serves as a trusted scientific partner to cross-functional teams, healthcare professionals, scientific experts, health authorities, and global medical colleagues. The role ensures that all medical activities are conducted in accordance with local and international regulations, Good Clinical Practice (GCP), Lilly policies and procedures, company standards, and global quality requirements.

Key Responsibilities

Medical Strategy & Business Partnership

• Lead the development and execution of the local medical strategy for the Neuroscience therapeutic area.
• Contribute to product lifecycle management from pre-launch through post-launch, ensuring medical priorities are aligned with business objectives and patient needs.
• Provide strategic medical leadership for commercialization activities, patient journey initiatives, and molecule-level planning.
• Collaborate closely with Global Medical Affairs, Clinical Development, Market Access, Real World Evidence, Regulatory, Commercial, and cross-functional teams.
• Act as a scientific advisor in Pricing, Reimbursement, and Access (PRA) initiatives, supporting value communication and interactions with healthcare stakeholders.
• Support business-to-business and business-to-government collaborations by providing expert scientific and clinical guidance.
• Analyze customer insights and healthcare landscape trends to inform medical strategies and customer engagement activities.

Scientific Leadership & External Engagement

• Serve as a recognized scientific expert for internal and external stakeholders.
• Establish and maintain strong relationships with key opinion leaders, scientific experts, professional societies, healthcare providers, and research organizations.
• Lead scientific exchange activities, including advisory boards, medical education initiatives, symposia, congresses, and scientific meetings.
• Deliver scientific presentations and support the development of publications, abstracts, posters, manuscripts, and educational content.
• Provide expert responses to medical inquiries from healthcare professionals, payers, patients, and other stakeholders in line with compliance requirements.
• Support customer research initiatives and contribute medical insights to improve patient outcomes and healthcare delivery.

Clinical Development & Research

• Partner with global and regional development teams to ensure clinical programs address local medical and scientific needs.
• Support the planning, initiation, execution, and oversight of Phase IIIb and IV studies, and where applicable, early-phase clinical research activities.
• Provide medical leadership for local clinical research initiatives, investigator-sponsored studies, and non-interventional research programs.
• Contribute to protocol development, study feasibility assessments, investigator selection, study startup activities, and scientific oversight throughout trial execution.
• Collaborate with Clinical Research Scientists, Clinical Operations teams, Biostatisticians, Health Outcomes teams, and investigators to drive research excellence.
• Monitor patient safety and ensure adherence to Lilly’s global patient safety standards and pharmacovigilance requirements.

Regulatory & Compliance Support

• Provide medical expertise to support regulatory submissions, labeling initiatives, and health authority interactions.
• Contribute to the preparation of regulatory documentation, scientific responses, and advisory committee activities.
• Partner with Regulatory Affairs, Legal, Development, and Global Patient Safety teams on risk management planning and regulatory strategy.
• Ensure all activities comply with local regulations, international guidelines, Lilly policies, and global quality standards.

Medical Excellence & People Leadership

• Maintain deep expertise in Neuroscience, emerging scientific evidence, competitive landscape developments, and healthcare trends.
• Drive a culture of scientific excellence, innovation, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
• Coach, mentor, and develop team members while fostering a high-performing and inclusive work environment.
• Contribute to talent development, succession planning, recruitment, diversity initiatives, and employee engagement.
• Support budget planning and resource allocation for medical activities.
• Act as an ambassador for Lilly’s values and unwavering commitment to patients.

Basic Qualifications

Education

• Advanced degree in Health Sciences, Medicine, Pharmacy, Life Sciences, or a related field (MD, PharmD, PhD, or equivalent).

Experience

• Significant experience within the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, healthcare, or clinical research industry.
• Strong understanding of drug development, medical affairs, clinical research, and the healthcare environment.
• Demonstrated success in balancing scientific excellence with business priorities.
• Experience leading cross-functional initiatives and influencing diverse stakeholder groups.
• Previous leadership experience within Medical Affairs or a related scientific function is preferred.

Skills

• Outstanding communication, presentation, interpersonal, and stakeholder management skills.
• Strong strategic thinking, analytical problem-solving, and decision-making capabilities.
• Proven ability to influence across functions and levels of the organization.
• High level of scientific curiosity and commitment to continuous learning.

Additional Requirements

• Fluent English, both written and spoken.
• Ability to travel domestically and internationally as required.
• Completion of military service obligation for male candidates.