Associate Director - eSource Capabilities

Eli Lilly and Company•Indianapolis, IN

21h•Onsite

About The Position

At Lilly, we unite caring with discovery to make life better for people around the world. We are a global healthcare leader headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana. Our employees around the world work to discover and bring life-changing medicines to those who need them, improve the understanding and management of disease, and give back to our communities through philanthropy and volunteerism. We give our best effort to our work, and we put people first. We’re looking for people who are determined to make life better for people around the world. The Associate Director, Clinical Trial Foundations (CTF), will serve as the subject matter expert for clinical systems supporting clinical development. In this role, you will define and execute implementation plans to deliver on the system strategies, integrations and improvements. The Associate Director is responsible for collaborating with business partners to enable development, implementation and support of streamlined, clear and compliant systems to support clinical development. This role will also work closely with external parties including vendors, industry authorities and related organizations to optimize Lilly’s capabilities to support business and customer-focused, efficient clinical development. This role will specifically be focused in the eSource technologies space, including, but not limited to the future state strategy, innovation, and development of direct data capture capabilities, ingesting electronic medical records, and other technologies supporting the digitization of patient source data from investigator sites.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in a scientific or health related field
Minimum 3 years’ experience in medical, quality, clinical drug development, or clinical information flow
Qualified candidates must be legally authorized to be employed in the United States. Lilly does not anticipate providing sponsorship for employment visa status (e.g., H-1B or TN status) for this employment position

Nice To Haves

Experience in clinical development systems as well as current and evolving technologies to support clinical development
Knowledge and/or experience in project management and organizational change with Lilly staff and external parties including vendors, industry experts and related organizations
Good interpersonal and leadership skills
Excellent oral and written communication skills
Strong business insight
Demonstrated strength in logical thought, problem solving ability and critical thinking
Ability to communicate and influence across functional boundaries
Ability and experience in positively handling and resolving conflict
Flexibility in approach; able to adjust to unexpected business opportunities while also being a catalyst for change
Knowledge of regulatory and quality requirements governing clinical development

Responsibilities

Understand business strategies, processes and technology as it relates to clinical development
Serve as domain expert to ensure data, process and/or technology interfaces are optimized across other clinical information systems that are integrated with these systems
Support internal audits and external inspections
Define, lead and execute implementation plans to deliver on technology strategies and improvements
Develop critical success factors for pilots/projects and monitor progress to ensure clear criteria exists to enable decision making
Identify, monitor and communicate global customer (internal and external) needs/requirements related to process and/or technology performance and improvements
Lead organizational change, communication planning and training initiatives
Provide guidance and consulting into forecasting expenses
Identify project implementation and system execution risks and raise issues appropriately
Lead progress reporting activities and system metrics to leadership, process owners and end users
Partner with process owners, leadership, Quality and Information Technology to ensure capable, integrated and efficient system usage across the portfolio
Actively participate in shared learning across the team
Work with vendors to improve customer experience and efficiencies

Benefits

company bonus (depending, in part, on company and individual performance)
company-sponsored 401(k)
pension
vacation benefits
medical benefits
dental benefits
vision benefits
prescription drug benefits
flexible benefits (e.g., healthcare and/or dependent day care flexible spending accounts)
life insurance
death benefits
certain time off and leave of absence benefits
well-being benefits (e.g., employee assistance program, fitness benefits, and employee clubs and activities)