Associate Enterprise Meeting Services, International Meetings (m/f/d) (Contractor Position)

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.

Associate Enterprise Meeting Services, International Meetings (m/f/d) (Contractor Position)

Organization Overview

At Lilly , we make a difference for people in the world over by discovering, developing, and delivering medicines that help people live longer, healthier, and more active lives.

One of Lilly´s most important corporate objectives are to improve patient outcomes. A key step in achieving this goal is to improve our relationship with external health care providers and health care organizations ensuring a positive experience across all touchpoints that include Thought leaders, consultants, speakers, external stakeholders, and employees, ensuring that this does not limit Lilly´s understanding of a disease, potential treatments and the patients, Health care provider´s and payer´s needs. Therefore, we must prioritize how we engage with health care providers through every touchpoint to ensure we are meeting the needs of the patients we serve.

Global Business Solutions (GBS) is a global partner that was born in finance and provides unique capabilities that enable Lilly to accelerate the value we bring to patients. It has evolved and expanded into diverse Business Service functions including Lilly Meetings & Congresses.

Enterprise Meeting Services (EMS) is a centralized global meetings and congresses team that offers best in class, compliant and seamless execution of meetings and congresses, utilizing efficient tools and processes to accelerate business requirements and deliver outstanding customer experiences. We take care of all aspects of health care providers and employee meetings and congresses for all business areas such as Marketing, Medical, Sales and others, delivering an end-to-end support that includes strategic project management, consultancy, logistics planning and oversight, contracting, administrative and finance support, vendor management, on-site execution and facilitate transparency publication.

The International Meetings Team delivers strategic project management and implementation of regionally owned events taking place across the International Business Unit and across all functions by ensuring compliance, reliability, and the best quality. Our main focus is on Speaker Trainings, Scientific Exchange, Consultant, Promotional and Health Education Meetings. Our process ensures that we deliver results with integrity, consistency, and quality across the International Business Unit. Our main goal is to provide an unparalleled experience both internally and externally at Lilly.

Your tasks

• Responsibility for all aspects of customer and employee meetings, incl. travel, contracting, meeting & events logistics, etc.
• Responsibility for representing and delivering an excellent customer experience
• Making judgment-based decisions when dealing with complex situations
• Establish and maintain strategic partnerships
• Provide strategic project management
• Identify and collaborate with the local and regional Meeting Planning Companies and delegate the implementation of meeting logistics
• Effectively lead, develop, collaborate, and manage multiple relationships with external partners to positively impact the events

Your profile

• Successful completion of a bachelor’s degree
• Comparable experience (minimum 3 years) obtained in the pharmaceutical or hospitality industry with a dynamic environment and international focus
• Exceptional customer service focus
• Project Management experience
• Able to prioritize and work under pressure, being stress resistant and flexible, and use critical thinking skills
• Organizational skills, organized approach to thinking and working independently, forward-looking, cooperative, and communicative
• Polished and cultured conduct and appearance, absolutely focused on providing a service, pleasant attitude, first-class manners, discretion, loyalty, and team spirit
• Exemplary precision and reliability
• Outstanding computer skills (MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Video Conferencing, etc.)
• Absolute fluency in English, excellent verbal and written skills, and knowledge of any other foreign language are assets
• Willingness to travel up to 30% if required, mainly within Europe, approximately 1–3 times per quarter
• Valid work permit for Austria/EU required

Additional Information

• Location: Austria
• Transparent Compensation: The collective bargaining agreement minimum salary is € 35,490 gross per year. Depending on qualifications and experience, we offer a market-competitive premium above this minimum.

Lilly is dedicated to helping individuals with disabilities to actively engage in the workforce, ensuring equal opportunities when vying for positions. If you require accommodation to submit a resume for a position at Lilly, please use the following link: https://careers.lilly.com/us/en/workplace-accommodation . Please note this link is intended solely for job seekers requesting accommodation in the application process. Any other correspondence will not receive a response.

Lilly does not discriminate on the basis of age, race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, protected veteran status, disability or any other legally protected status.

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Lilly is dedicated to helping individuals with disabilities to actively engage in the workforce, ensuring equal opportunities when vying for positions. If you require accommodation to submit a resume for a position at Lilly, please complete the accommodation request form ( https://careers.lilly.com/us/en/workplace-accommodation ) for further assistance. Please note this is for individuals to request an accommodation as part of the application process and any other correspondence will not receive a response.

Lilly does not discriminate on the basis of age, race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, protected veteran status, disability or any other legally protected status.

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