Senior Director-Clinical Design Program Lead, Neuroscience

Lilly • Indianapolis, IN

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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. Clinical Design provides clinical program and trial design leadership and expertise within Eli Lilly – designing novel clinical programs to answer scientific questions, align with the corporate and asset strategies, and enable delivery. The value proposition is achieved by applying design excellence competencies and principles related to value-based research, data-driven decisions, and accelerated delivery. Clinical Design uses internal and external information within and across therapeutic areas to provide modern, innovative solutions to Lilly’s drug development needs. The Senior Director Clinical Design Program Lead role leads a cross-functional team in the development of a high-quality design for a specified asset(s), including different design scenarios, in collaboration with the Asset team. This includes providing to the Asset team transparent costs, timelines, and risks associated with the plan. In addition, the Clinical Design Program Lead is responsible for working with Clinical Capabilities and Clinical Development to enable accelerated delivery. This role integrates clinical design and best drug development practice with therapeutic and phase specific focus and expertise. More about the role:

Requirements

• Bachelor degree, preferably in a scientific or health-related field
• Minimum 5 years of directly related clinical trial or pharmaceutical project management experience

Nice To Haves

• Post-graduate degree (e.g. Pharm D, M.S., or Ph.D.)
• Demonstrated knowledge and experience with project management tools and processes
• Pharmaceutical Industry experience, or similar, of at least three (3) years that provides adequate background relevant to clinical trial design of Ph II to Phase IV studies (e.g., designing clinical programs, trials, and/or protocols, statistical/inferential methods, rating instruments, regulatory standards, safety assessment, investigator/site management, decentralized clinical trials).
• Strong communication skills across diverse platforms and interested parties; adept at influencing and aligning teams to advance business strategies while using interpersonal, organizational, teamwork and negotiation skills
• Ability to anticipate and resolves key technical, operational, or business problems
• Ability to drive solutions affecting results within a business area

Responsibilities

• Lead Clinical Design team in translating therapeutic area and asset team strategy into clear objectives and associated clinical development program and trial optionality. Optionality will address business and customer needs (patient, prescriber, payer, and/or regulator); be in alignment with phase of product lifecycle; and clearly articulate associated tradeoffs in value (data generated, risks created/discharged, cost, and time).
• Represent program and trial design optionality to asset teams and Sr. Leaders to inform prioritization of an option that will be translated into a clinical protocol(s). Adjust optionality in accordance with feedback from leadership.
• Provides insight into impact of study/protocol design features to feasibility, value, patient and investigator burden, and execution speed/efficiency.
• Engages other functions as determined by the asset need (e.g. Safety Committees, Regulatory, Tox/PK/ADME, TTx, Bioethics)
• Applies external benchmark data in conjunction with the Clinical Design Capabilities in the development of clinical plans and clinical trial designs (e.g. reference trials, design analytics, country identification/allocation)
• Understand how design elements influence the ability to deliver on new regulatory expectations (e.g. decentralization of clinical trials, increase racial and ethnic diversity in clinical trials) and clinical capabilities (e.g. value-based, patient accessibility, patient burden).
• Lead the creation of risk profiles to ensure trial design has appropriate risk mitigation to enable robust data delivery
• Collaborates with Clinical Development Sr. Director ensuring design options take into consideration the ability to enable accelerated delivery
• Ensure consistent development and finalization of documents that support the complete trial package (e.g. protocol, functional documents/plans) to enable smooth transition into delivery
• Focus on organizational learning to proactively identify, apply, and share guidelines and takeaways related to program and protocol design within and outside the organization.
• Closely collaborate with asset teams and delivery teams to understand the impact of design on speed to protocol approval and study startup. Identify a opportunities to analyze experience and improve approaches.
• Work closely with counterparts in Clinical Design and therapeutic areas to generate ideas and continue to evolve Lilly standards, tools, and protocols that span drug development.
• Provide coaching within the organization that fosters inclusion and innovation, continual improvement, and an external understanding and awareness
• Model the Lilly leadership behaviors
• Apply innovation and lessons learned in real time.

Benefits

• Full-time equivalent employees also will be eligible for a company bonus (depending, in part, on company and individual performance). In addition, Lilly offers a comprehensive benefit program to eligible employees, including eligibility to participate in a company-sponsored 401(k); pension; vacation benefits; eligibility for medical, dental, vision and prescription drug benefits; flexible benefits (e.g., healthcare and/or dependent day care flexible spending accounts); life insurance and death benefits; certain time off and leave of absence benefits; and well-being benefits (e.g., employee assistance program, fitness benefits, and employee clubs and activities).

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees