Deirdre Bourke, Country Lead at Eli Lilly’s Irish affiliate, highlights the strategic importance of Ireland to Lilly’s global operations, their exciting upcoming pipeline, the challenges and opportunities she foresees for Lilly in Ireland, and her own professional transition from managing Lilly’s diabetes portfolio to Lilly’s overall commercial activities in Ireland.
Can you provide an overview of Eli Lilly’s commercial operations in Ireland?
Globally, Lilly promote and bring products to market in the three areas of diabetes, biomedicines and oncology. As Country Lead, I manage Lilly’s sales and marketing arm in Ireland.
"In addition to the commercial arm, we have a manufacturing facility in Kinsale, Cork, which was established in 1978 and represents Lilly’s largest manufacturing site globally."
