Associate Director - Statistical Systems

Eli Lilly

  • Indianapolis, IN
  • $118,500-173,800 per year
  • Permanent
  • Full-time
  • 1 day ago
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, CTF Clinical Results Systems (as part of Clinical Trial Foundations) is an authority and key partner across the business. They will serve as the point to manage the technologies and processes to support information flow and process automation within their teams. They will provide coaching and consultation on the following: technologies, standards, vendor management, inspection readiness, data flow knowledge, and shared findings. They will also provide first line supervision to a team of individuals. This Manager role will have responsibility for Statistical systems (eg Statistical Controlled Environment).Responsibilities:
  • Recruit, retain, develop, and leverage the very best talent available, internally and externally, to meet technical, scientific, and strategic needs
  • Assign, mentor and develop staff such that they provide consistent, positive, strong technical leadership to the entire organization
  • Create an environment where staff feel comfortable speaking up so that a broad range of ideas and thoughts are vetted and explored; where they are fully engaged in our work so that their passion is fully engaged; and where roles and responsibilities are optimized to the individual so that the full range of their talents are brought to bear on critical and relevant work
Operational Management
  • Prioritize work based on strategy and communicate and coordinate resulting decisions with cross-functional leaders
  • Build and leverage relationships with Process Owners, Leadership, clinical development, quality, and IT in order to ensure understanding, agreement and alignment on systems and accompanying business processes
  • Partner with Third Parties to ensure high quality, on-time, on budget deliverables along with constant implementation of process improvements and efficiencies
  • Supervise relevant performance metrics and implement actions as needed
  • Manage budget and reporting activities
  • Maintain inspection readiness
  • Work with Lilly quality organizations to ensure support for vendor qualifications, audits, and inspections
Technology and Process Management
  • Approach new and existing work by assessing and articulating quality and business requirements for the technologies we own
  • Understand business strategies, processes and technology as it relates to clinical development
  • Work to develop procedures, process improvements
  • Implement and maintain the clinical information management and process automation strategy for their area of focus in partnership with business and IT partners
Basic Qualifications:
  • Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience
  • Experience leading large-scale programs and/or initiatives
  • In depth knowledge of data standards, the clinical data flow, and the supporting technology
  • Ability to work in a virtual team environment, with outsourced partners
  • Strong oral and written communication skills
  • Demonstrated ability to build and foster teamwork, and strong ability to work across functions and regions
  • Ability to provide on-going feedback, coaching, and direction
  • Ability to positively manage and resolve conflict
  • Demonstrated leadership and influence skills
  • Demonstrated interpersonal and relationship building skills
  • Demonstrated ability to deliver to timelines
  • Ability to focus on multiple, competing priorities and customers simultaneously
  • Critical thinking skills
  • Ability to adjust rapidly to unexpected business opportunities (flexibility)
  • Ability to proactively identify potential issues and contingency plans.
Additional Skills and Preferences:
  • Knowledge of and experience with discipline-related processes and technology
  • Knowledge of emerging IT capabilities used for clinical trial data management
  • Capacity and workload management expertise
  • Strong leadership skills
  • Outstanding interpersonal skills
  • Demonstrated ability to influence and motivate
  • Excellent oral and written communication skills
  • Ability to positively manage and resolve conflict
  • Strong focus on customer and business results
  • Demonstrated ability to build and foster teamwork
  • Strong ability to work across functions and regions
  • Demonstrated ability to deliver on-time performance
  • Ability to provide on-going feedback, coaching, and direction
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