Partner with product development to advance treatments for metabolic disease including diabetes and obesity. Develop therapeutic area strategies to guide product development. Bring insights from customers, market trends and competitive activities to inform therapeutic and asset strategies. Evaluate business development opportunities. Coach a team of New Product Planning professionals to advance Lilly's pipeline.

Partner with product development to advance treatments for metabolic disease including diabetes and obesity. Develop therapeutic area strategies to guide product development. Bring insights from customers, market trends and competitive activities to inform therapeutic and asset strategies. Evaluate business development opportunities. Coach a team of New Product Planning professionals to advance Lilly's pipeline.

Responsible for all insulin product sales for international markets including Europe, China, Japan, Emerging Markets and Australia. Lead launch planning for new insulin products in key markets around the world. Provide input into global brand strategy for insulin products including products in development. Build capabilities into new communication channels that support our business goals. Evaluate business cases for launches, market expansion, business development, etc. Work in a cross functional environment across all parts of the value chain.

Work with all major countries and regions within the Emerging Markets Business Unit to develop and implement plans to achieve commercial goals for Diabetes business. Partner with corporate office functions to support country needs. I have enjoyed the opportunity to work with people in many different countries and across multiple products within the Lilly Diabetes Portfolio. Responsibilities include review and approve country brand plans, training, coaching, consulting, problem solving and developing solutions to address needs within the Diabetes business. Direct experience with many countries including China, Japan, Germany, France, UK, Italy, Spain, Mexico, Brazil, Argentina, India, Australia, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Algeria, UAE, Turkey, Russia, and many smaller countries.

Work with regional Vice President to achieve performance targets across Japan, Australia, Canada and all of Europe. Lead cross regional capability improvement across commericial functions. Work with individual country teams to address business challenges. Experience in alliance management.

Led the development of strategic life cycle plans for insulin products. Marketing lead on multiple cross functional product development teams for diabetes products and devices. Worked with multiple external strategic and development partnerships. Brand development lead for multiple diabetes products.

Inaugural Six Sigma Black Belt at Canadian office. Led a wide variety of improvement project teams across multiple functions within the company including sales, marketing, regulatory, clinical operations, finance and others. Continue to apply Six Sigma methodology, skills and tools developed in this role to subsequent roles.

Led an team of 130+ sales managers and sales representatives promoting a broad product line including Mental Health, Men's Health, Women's Health and Diabetes. Customer groups included private clinics, hospitals, pharmacy, pharmacy chain groups and others. Strong experience in both product launches and growing established products.

Led the product team for endorcine disorders including diabetes and growth disorders. Consistently met performance targets for established products as well as launched new indications and line extensions. Recognized among global countries for strong brand plans and brand results. Grew overall market share while managing product deletions and competitive pressures.