In July 2010, Cork was chosen as the site for Lilly’s European Shared Services. Operations started in 2011 with a team of 100 initially supporting Finance across more than 40 countries in Europe, Russia, the Middle East, and Africa. Since then, Global Business Solutions (GBS) in Cork has continued to grow and evolve, leveraging its successful business blueprint from Finance and applying it to diverse business operations across the Lilly enterprise.  Today, the team of 1,900 – from over 60 nationalities, speaking over 30 languages – work across the lifecycle of our medicines, centralising, optimising and adding value in key capabilities including: 

• Clinical Development 

• Regulatory 

• Medical & Scientific capabilities 

• Patient Safety 

• Finance & Procurement 

• Supply Chain 

• Global HR 

• Legal 

• Ethics & Compliance 

• Commercial 

• Technology 

A key component of Lilly’s wider productivity and innovation agenda, the success of GBS is underpinned by Lilly’s core values – Excellence, Integrity and Respect for People.