Marketing MBA Intern

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.

Organization Overview

At Lilly, we serve an extraordinary purpose. We make a difference for people around the globe by discovering, developing and delivering medicines that help them live longer, healthier, more active lives. Not only do we deliver breakthrough medications, but you also can count on us to develop creative solutions to support communities through philanthropy and volunteerism.

Responsibilities

Marketing career path at Lilly, you will own a strategic project or brand workstream and lead the decision-making associated with it. Your work will require cross-functional exposure across brand teams, market research, medical, market access and commercial operations. Your project and development will be overseen by executive leadership.

Responsibilities may include

• Generating and executing strategic vision by analyzing current state of affairs and opportunities, presenting assumptions, and recommending a path forward
• Developing customer and market insights that shape brand strategy, positioning and messaging
• Planning, monitoring, and evaluating business results against brand and portfolio objectives
• Creating plans, budgets, and results measurements; allocating resources; reviewing progress; making mid-course corrections
• Partnering across functions to bring launch and lifecycle plans to market

Basic qualifications

• Completed MBA internship at Lilly in summer 2026
• Currently enrolled in an MBA program

Additional Skills/Preferences

• 3 to 7 years of professional work experience prior to business school, ideally including marketing, brand management, consulting, healthcare or biotech
• Entrepreneurial mindset and innovative thinker
• Demonstrated leadership
• Strong learning agility, including the ability to create and implement new ideas
• Critical thinking and problem solving skills
• Strong analytic capability, including comfort with quantitative data and market research
• Demonstrated collaboration and ability to influence without authority
• Flexibility and adaptability
• Ability to align a group around a vision or common goal
• Willingness to challenge the status quo
• Language fluency in English, both written and verbal
• Expected graduation by August 2027

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 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.

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