What it does: Manufactures, develops and distributes pharmaceutical drugs.
Best known for: Being the first company to mass-produce insulin and Jonas Salk's polio vaccine.
The good bits: The company is said to give good incentives to highly-productive teams. Healthcare is also a given to all Lilly employees.
The not so good bits: Employees may work long hours on some days due to the company's goal-oriented work culture.
In 1876, a pharmaceutical chemist and veteran by the name of Colonel Eli Lilly opened his pharmaceutical laboratory in Indianapolis. He used the money he earned from owning and operating a pharmacy to open his own laboratory. In an era where unreliable elixirs from peddlers were used to cure diseases, Col. Lilly wanted to create high-quality medicines that delivered real solutions to health concerns.
Col. Lilly focused on developing an ethical drug market where quality medicines could be purchased only through medical professionals. After his first month in business, his company made $3,447, which only grew to $11,318.73 by the end of 1877. In 1880, Eli Lilly and Company became a corporation and began issuing stock only to family and close friends.
As the company passed on to Col. Lilly's son, Josiah K. Sr., then to his grandsons Eli and J.K. Jr., they maintained the charge of their founder to ‘take what you find here and make it better and better.’ The company then continued to develop advanced medicines and helped many people who needed their products.
In 1906, when San Francisco was struck by an earthquake that caused a great loss to the city, Lilly came and provided for its medicinal needs. During World War I, Lilly and Company set up a field hospital in France. In the 1940s, Lilly developed a way to mass-produce Penicillin-G, the world's first widely-available antibiotic.
Today, after more than 140 years of humanitarian efforts and pharmaceutical advancements, Eli Lilly and Company is still uniting caring and discovery to make life better for people all around the world. Eli Lilly and Company is also known for their products like Cymbalta; used for pain and depression, Alimta; a drug used widely by lung cancer patients, and Humulin; a type of insulin for patients suffering from diabetes.
Lilly operates in India through two business entities.
Since its inception in India in 1993, Eli Lilly and Company (India) Pvt. Ltd. has been committed to developing and marketing pharmaceutical products to treat diabetes, gastric cancer, lung cancer, osteoporosis, rheumatoid arthritis, men's health and growth-hormone deficiency. Lilly India affiliate also comprises operations in neighbouring countries of Nepal, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka.
Lilly opened the Lilly Capability Center India (LCCI) in Bangalore in January 2016. This centre allows Lilly to take advantage of the unique drug development capabilities found in India.
Bangalore has been strategically chosen as a location for this centre due to its concentration of research and development, electronics and software production companies.
A sense of purpose: Lilly through its medicines and information, provides answers to some of the world’s most urgent medical needs. At Lilly, saving and sustaining lives is our ultimate aim. In India, we are driven by a common vision and we are moving strongly and steadily towards it. Here is your opportunity to become a part of this bold vision, contribute to humanity and grow with a growing organization.
At Lilly, the diversity of opportunities runs wide and deep . We believe in creating possibilities for our employees. Not only do we foster opportunities for employees to grow vertically, we actively create possibilities for you to add new skills and grow laterally. Our Short-term Assignments (STAs), International assignments and cross-functional movements are just some of the ways to help our employees explore their areas of interest and hone their skills. Our Internal job posting system gives you a chance to explore new areas before anyone else outside, and take that big leap in your career. We have a history of nurturing and promoting our internal talent and the fact that 85% of our leadership positions are closed internally is a testimony to that.
Lilly is all about helping people live healthy, happy lives. That includes our employees. We believe in compensation that truly expresses appreciation for your contributions and benefits which help you achieve a balance in your life. Our benefits are designed to strengthen your financial well-being, aid you in health matters and encourage you to live a balanced and stress-free life. Our comprehensive life and health insurance plans, rewards and recognition programs and a host of other benefit schemes are designed to make your life better and happier.
At Lilly, we believe in the well-rounded development of our employees. We train you not only for your current job but also for the future. We run several global and local training programs in-house, and partner with external training organizations to help employees reach their full potential.
We can’t be an innovation-driven company with a strong ethical backbone until our employees have the environment to innovate and the freedom to express themselves. Hierarchy to us is just a structure to manage work, not constrain thoughts. We support our employees to speak up for what they feel is right and we encourage supervisors to act with fairness and objectivity. Each of our employees continuously focuses on the following four virtues that we have established for Lilly India: Be wise; Be Courageous; Be Fair; Be in Control. Not everything that constitutes an employment experience can be put in words. We welcome you to be a part of the Lilly India family and actually live the experience that we are so proud of.