Responsibilities

• Serves as the primary communications partner and senior writer for a defined portfolio of Executive Committee members — developing and stewarding their authentic voice across all formats and channels, ensuring each leader’s voice, where they show up, and how they are positioned serves Lilly as a whole.
• Produces high-quality executive content across all formats — including speeches, remarks, thought leadership, LinkedIn posts, video scripts, briefing documents, and talking points — serving as the senior content resource for the function alongside the AVP.
• Leads development of long-form thought leadership content, event remarks, and appearance preparation for portfolio executives — ensuring each piece is grounded in the executive’s voice and connected to Lilly’s enterprise narrative.
• Leads a proactive content calendar in partnership with the AVP — anticipating upcoming moments, planning content in advance, and ensuring the function is never reactive when proactive is possible.
• Builds and maintains executive briefing documents, media preparation materials, and talking points in advance of high-stakes moments — equipping leaders to communicate with confidence and consistency.
• Collaborates with the AVP on executive positioning strategy and storyline-to-executive mapping — starting with what executives need to achieve on behalf of Lilly, then driving the deployment plan in partnership with Workforce Engagement, SI&O, and others to ensure the right voice reaches the right audience at the right moment.
• Ensures all executive content ladders to Lilly’s enterprise narrative and core storylines — maintaining coherence across voices, formats, and audiences, whether content is produced internally or by agency partners.
• Serves as the function’s primary point of coordination for agency writing relationships — briefing partners, reviewing output against voice and narrative standards, and ensuring quality and consistency across all externally produced executive content.
• Leads CoE infrastructure development — including voice guides, editorial standards, playbook development, and shared frameworks that equip communicators across the leadership team to support their executives consistently and with quality; works in close partnership with the Senior Associate, Executive Engagement on the governance rhythms and operational infrastructure that bring this work to life.
• Leverages AI-assisted content workflows to accelerate drafting, news synthesis, briefing preparation, and content adaptation — maintaining quality while increasing output capacity across the team.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in communications, journalism, English, marketing, or a related field.
• 8+ years of experience in executive communications, corporate communications, or a closely related field, with demonstrated experience supporting C-suite or senior leadership communications.
• 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.

Preferred

• Additional Skills / Preference
• Pharmaceutical, healthcare, or regulated industry experience preferred; not required.