Lilly Posted August 5, 2026

Sr Director, Clinical Operations, China ExploR&D

Shanghai, Shanghai, China FULL_TIME
Clinical Development Senior Director

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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...

Job details

Seniority
Senior Director
Function
Clinical Development
Therapeutic area
Not listed
Location
Shanghai, Shanghai, China
Employment type
FULL_TIME

How this role compares

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

We currently track 194 comparable Senior Director Clinical Development roles across 26 biopharma companies.

194Comparable roles tracked
164Currently active
26Companies hiring similar roles
15Countries represented

Salary context

104 of 194 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 · Clinical Research Director (P4-P5) · Lilly $101,379/yr – $181,067/yr
Highest disclosed · Global Clinical Head- Executive Director · AstraZeneca $331,874/yr – $497,810/yr
Peer group range $141,223 – $414,842 (median $299,750)

Where these roles are based

Top locations among the 194 comparable roles

United States153
Spain10
United Kingdom9
India4
Poland4
Ireland2

+ 9 more countries

Seniority mix

194 of 194 peers have a known seniority level

Director141
Executive/VP33
Senior Director20

Therapeutic area mix

94 of 194 peers have a known therapeutic area; the rest are genuinely unlabeled, not hidden

Oncology39
Immunology18
Respiratory10
Neuroscience9
Cardiovascular / CVRM9
Vaccines & Infectious Disease3
Ophthalmology3
Gastroenterology1
Dermatology & Aesthetics1
Rare Disease1

Similar opportunities

The closest matches from our peer group, ranked by how similar they are, not how well you'd qualify for them -- treat this as market context, not a guaranteed shortlist; a weak match is labeled as one below.

60%similar
Lilly Shanghai, Shanghai, China Senior Director
Same function Same seniority Same country
45%similar
Lilly Stamford, Connecticut, United States of America Senior Director
Same function Same seniority
45%similar
Lilly Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America Senior Director
Same function Same seniority
45%similar
Merck Rahway, New Jersey, United States of America Senior Director
Same function Same seniority
45%similar
Mylan Inc. United States Remote Office, United States Senior Director
Same function Same seniority
45%similar
Amgen Inc. Remote, United States Senior Director
Same function Same seniority

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.

60%
Sr. Director-Clinical Research Physician Sub-team Leader
Lilly · Shanghai, Shanghai, China · Senior Director
Function Therapeutic area Seniority Country
45%
Senior Director, Clinical Research, Atherosclerosis
Merck · Rahway, New Jersey, United States of America · Senior Director
Function Therapeutic area Seniority Country
45%
Sr Director, GMASE Portfolio Execution- Oncology
GlaxoSmithKline LLC · Home Worker, United States · Senior Director
Function Therapeutic area Seniority Country
45%
Sr Director, Early Clinical Development, Neuroscience
E.R. Squibb & Sons,L.L.C. · Cambridge Crossing, United States · Senior Director
Function Therapeutic area 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.