Lilly Posted August 18, 2026

Senior Advisor, Clinical Research

Shanghai, Shanghai, China FULL_TIME
Clinical Research Principal
Notify me about similar jobs
This position is no longer accepting applications.

Lilly has closed or removed this posting -- see current similar openings below.

View the original listing (may no longer be live).

About this opportunity

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.

Provide medical expertise in clinical strategy, execution, and enhancing customer scientific interactions with Eli Lilly.

Collaborate with global teams (or lead, for China-led multi-country studies) on clinical development strategy, Phase I-IV trials, and non-trial activities, ensuring high-quality study planning, execution, and reporting of China data.

Partner with regulatory affairs in health authority communications for Clinical Trial Permission (CTP) and New Drug Application (NDA) processes.

Lead efforts in defining the patient journey, identifying evidence gaps, and developing integrated evidence generation plans and medical strategies while serving as a patient advocate and medical expert.

Support brand commercialization and local business plans by contributing to strategic planning for marketed brands.

Provide clinical insights for payer partnerships, negotiation strategies, and dossier preparation to demonstrate product value.

Strategically plan and execute medical meetings, real-world studies, data analyses, and publications (abstracts, posters, manuscripts) while ensuring compliance.

Build and maintain relationships with external scientific experts, thought leaders, and the broader medical community.

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.

#WeAreLilly

Job details

Seniority
Principal
Function
Clinical Research
Therapeutic area
Not listed
Location
Shanghai, Shanghai, China
Employment type
FULL_TIME

How this role compares

Computed from every other active Clinical Research role in our database, not just this employer's listings.

We currently track 23 comparable Principal Clinical Research roles across 8 biopharma companies.

23Comparable roles tracked
19Currently active
8Companies hiring similar roles
12Countries represented

Salary context

5 of 23 peers report a salary range (USD, annualized)

Peers share this role's job function and a matching or adjacent seniority level -- not necessarily the same therapeutic area or country.

This roleSubject Not listed on this posting
Lowest disclosed · Senior Clinical Research Associate - Shockwave Medical · Johnson & Johnson $106,000/yr – $170,200/yr
Highest disclosed · Director - Clinical Research Scientist · Lilly $177,000/yr – $338,800/yr
Peer group range $138,100 – $257,900 (median $155,000)

Where these roles are based

Top locations among the 23 comparable roles

United States7
China5
United Kingdom2
Germany1
Saudi Arabia1
Poland1

+ 6 more countries

Seniority mix

23 of 23 peers have a known seniority level

Senior21
Director2

Therapeutic area mix

0 of 23 peers have a known therapeutic area; the rest are genuinely unlabeled, not hidden

No peers with a known therapeutic area yet.

Currently open similar roles

This posting is closed, but here are live openings closest to it -- ranked by similarity, not by how well you'd qualify for them.

50%similar
Johnson & Johnson Shanghai, China Senior
Same function Adjacent seniority Same country
50%similar
AbbVie Shanghai, Shanghai Senior
Same function Adjacent seniority Same country
50%similar
AbbVie Senior
Same function Adjacent seniority Same country

Open in 3 locations

Guangzhou, ChinaBucharest, RomaniaSeoul, South Korea
50%similar
AbbVie Shanghai, Shanghai Senior
Same function Adjacent seniority Same country
50%similar
Novartis Shanghai (Shanghai), China Senior
Same function Adjacent seniority Same country
35%similar
Roche Beijing, Beijing, China's Mainland Senior
Same function Adjacent seniority

Notify me about similar jobs

Get an email when we spot other openings like this one – same job function, comparable seniority, roles you'd actually want to see.

How we calculate "similar"

No black box, no LLM guesswork: a deterministic score built from four normalized attributes. Here's this role's own peer group at different match levels, so you can see the mechanism, not just the result.

Every comparison starts from the same 100-point budget: 25 for working in the same function, 40 for the same therapeutic area, 20 for the same or adjacent seniority, 15 for the same country. A dimension we can't confirm on both sides contributes nothing, never a guess, never a free pass.

50%
Senior Clinical Research Clinician
Johnson & Johnson · Shanghai, China · Senior
Function Therapeutic area Adjacent seniority Country
50%
Senior Clinical Research Associate
AbbVie · Guangzhou, Guangdong Province · Senior
Function Therapeutic area Adjacent seniority Country
35%
Sr. Clinical Research Lead
Roche · Beijing, Beijing, China's Mainland · Senior
Function Therapeutic area Adjacent seniority Country
35%
Senior Clinical Research Associate
AbbVie · Seoul, Seoul · Senior
Function Therapeutic area Adjacent seniority Country
Unmatched or unknown dimensions score exactly the same: 0 points, never a partial guess. A role we know almost nothing about beyond its function bottoms out at 25%; it never inflates to 100% just because there's little to compare against. Seniority uses a defined ladder (Associate → Manager → Associate Director → Senior → Principal → Director → Senior Director → Executive/VP) so "Director" and "Senior Director" count as adjacent, but "Director" and "Executive/VP" do not.