Associate - Trial Management Systems - 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.

Overview:

At Lilly, we serve an extraordinary purpose. We make a difference for people around the globe by discovering, developing and delivering medicines that help them live longer, healthier, more active lives. Not only do we deliver breakthrough medications, but you also can count on us to develop creative solutions to support communities through philanthropy and volunteerism.

Clinical Trial Foundations as part of Clinical Design, Delivery & Analytics (CDDA) provides leadership in the strategy and development of contemporary clinical trial processes, technologies, information, and capabilities and in shaping external policy and guidance to speed the delivery of medicines to patients globally. The Associate, Sr. Associate, Manager, Clinical Trial Foundations will serve as the business subject matter expert for the systems within the clinical development.  These roles will be responsible for executing business projects and maintaining capabilities on system processes, integrations and improvements.  These roles are responsible for collaborating with other functional areas within Clinical Design, Delivery & Analytics (CDDA) and Tech@Lilly to execute implementation.  These roles will also partner with our vendors who are delivering these capabilities.

Primary Responsibilities:    

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Clinical Systems and Capability Expertise

• Manage clinical technology projects that span across multiple functions, vendors, and external organizations pertinent to the area of focus.
• Ensure process and/or technology interfaces are optimized across all affected areas.
• Provide business case analysis as needed.
• Define, measure and achieve proficiency with new tools/technology and processes applicable to focus area.
• Support internal audits and external inspections.
• Provide knowledge of technologies and how they can enable processes across clinical development
• Continually seek and implement means of improving processes to reduce cycle time and decrease work effort.

Project Management

• Resolve operational issues that arise and apply shared learnings across functions and to external partners
• Create best practices to be shared cross functionally.
• Perform root cause analysis and apply knowledge to current and future projects.
• Partner with various business and therapeutic areas as appropriate to deliver the portfolio.
• Develop, track and maintain metrics for area of focus.
• Partner with LRL Financial and Procurement to manage budgets, invoice processing, work orders and contracts related to projects.
• Coordinate system testing
• Create training and job aides for system releases

Partnership

• Proactively identify, anticipates, monitor and communicates global customer needs and requirements that are related to process and/or technology.
• Partner and/or strengthen relationships between key providers or customers within clinical development and IT.
• Partner with vendors to facilitate a good customer experience.
• Actively participate in shared learnings across the team.

Minimum Qualification Requirements:  

• Bachelor’s degree OR 3 yrs experience in medical, quality, clinical drug development, Or clinical information flow with expertise in related processes and evolving technologies as in CDDA, IDS, and/or Quality.

Other Information/Additional Preferences:  

• Strong interpersonal and leadership skills.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Project management skills.
• Technical knowledge to develop requirements and/or study project deliverables (i.e. SAS, .xml).
• Vendor management/oversight skills.
• Technical/System experience.Indianapolis Based Position.

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