Associate Director – Clinical AI and Automation Transformation - Clinical Capabilities - Eli Lilly and Company

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.

Are you ready to be at the forefront of pharmaceutical innovation and make a tangible difference in patients' lives? Join us as we use technology to revolutionize drug development!

In collaboration with Lilly Research Labs, Tech at Lilly strives to pioneer drug development for the cognitive era. We believe that using data, insights, personalized experiences and technical innovation will bring differentiated products, services and experiences to patients, investigators, and regulators.

The promise of the Lilly clinical portfolio has never been greater. To fully deliver the portfolio, Lilly must successfully execute the clinical trials that will generate the knowledge of these new therapies and how they can best be used to help patients.

What You Will Be Doing:

The Associate Director – Clinical AI and Automation Transformation – Clinical Capabilities role will lead the innovative use of technology to improve experiences, drive business efficiencies, ensure portfolio delivery and resiliency while developing a pipeline of technical talent. This role will partner with clinical leaders and tech on strategies, develop capabilities and lead teams of people to deliver with a focus on clinical result collection.

How You Will Succeed:

• Deliver the clinical transformation using AI and Automation with a focus on people development, prioritization, issue identification and resolution, and portfolio delivery.

• Help to transform how technology leads to optimal study designs, improved data collection, transformed clinical operations data flow efficiency and resiliency, improved operational stability, and ultimately improve the impact of technology across clinical development.

• Deliver Lilly’s clinical pipeline with security, resiliency and a focus on speed. Transform operational efficiency to achieve 3NME.

• Provide leadership and guidance to coach, empower, and lead team members and organizations to their optimum performance.

• Responsible for building a pipeline of diverse engineers to support growing the organization and development teams.

• Drive the agenda for continuous education to maintain the competitive advantage of our talent.

What You Should Bring:

• Shown experience influencing internal partners to drive global change initiatives.

• Demonstrated results from technology and process redesign to drive large scale automation.

• Demonstrated excellence in mentoring and motivating individuals and teams to drive optimum performance.

• Strong leadership, interpersonal and communication skills

• Ability to influence broadly across organizations and work effectively across levels.

• Experience leading organizational change initiatives.

• Experience leading people through a new fast-paced transformation agenda.

• Knowledge of emerging IT capabilities used for clinical research.

• Consistent track record of successful execution of complex initiatives.

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in technology related field

• 7+ years of experience in leading innovative technology capabilities and teams

• 5+ years of experience leading transformation at the intersection of technology and life science

• Experience in delivering and sustaining solutions throughout software development lifecycle: design, engineering, construct, testing, deployment, and support of software solutions, platforms, services, and capabilities.

Additional Information:

• Hybrid position - located in Indianapolis, IN (relocation required)

• Some travel maybe required

Organization Overview:

Lilly IT builds and maintains capabilities using cutting edge technologies like most prominent tech companies. What differentiates Lilly IT is that we redefine what’s possible through tech to advance our purpose – creating medicines that make life better for people around the world, like data driven drug discovery and connected clinical trials. We hire the best technology professionals from a variety of backgrounds, so they can bring an assortment of knowledge, skills, and diverse thinking to deliver innovative solutions in every area of our business.

Research Tech unites science with technology to accelerate the Research and Development of medicines and to deliver therapeutic innovations. The team leverages technology and platforms to streamline scientific experimentation to help Researchers follow the science, to understand the disease and identify potential therapies. They are at the forefront of advanced analytics to enable data driven drug discovery, to innovate so Scientists can rapidly analyze and accelerate the discovery of new medicines.

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