Sr. Director – Global Scientific Communications- Systems and Solutions

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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.

Scientific data and information are core assets of Lilly Medical. Providing balanced, objective, and accurate information to regulators, the scientific community, health care professionals, payers, and patients in a consistent and timely fashion across the entire drug development lifecycle is fundamental to Lilly.

The Senior Director, GSC Systems and Solutions is accountable for business operations oversight, including ensuring reliable metrics to drive actions and decisions, coordinating the functional business plan, and leading implementation of the functional vendor strategy. The role is also responsible for serving as the program manager of the GSC automation and technology agenda and manages the GSC systems.

Primary Responsibilities: This job description is intended to provide a general overview of the job requirements at the time it was prepared. The job requirements of any position may change over time and may include additional responsibilities not specifically described in the job description. Consult with your supervision regarding your actual job responsibilities and any related duties that may be required for the position.

Business Operations and Transformation Oversight

• Coordinates functional business plan and LRL/company reporting obligations for the function.
• Ensures GSC has current data and tools to forecast and track budget and capacity to enable efficient and agile resource allocation to deliver the portfolio of work.
• Coordinates analysis of business process measurements to continuously improve efficiency, process performance, and to advise innovation and continuous improvement strategies across the function.
• Provide program management for the GSC automation and technology agenda, ensuring appropriate project management for each initiative, including budget/resources, timelines, risks, and measurement plans are integrated across the agenda, consistently reviewed, and reported to leadership, project teams, and stakeholders.
• Lead vendor engagement, functional oversight, and resource allocation for the GSC function.

GSC System Management

• Accountable for system ownership, stewardship, and security, ensuring stability and sustainability, and driving improvements to address future business needs.
• Ensures the appropriate access and security processes are in place, maintained, and evolving in alignment with Protect Lilly framework and applicable policies and procedures.
• Reports data accuracy and timeliness to GSC leadership, recommending corrective actions to increase the quality of data vital to drive efficiency and increased productivity in the function globally.
• Responsible for monitoring and continually improving system performance through the collection and analysis of key metrics, feedback from internal business partners and team members, and engaging with professional organizations.
• Drives continuous improvement in technology and process solutions that enable integrated data and analytics capabilities to impact productivity, efficiency gains, and user experience.

People Management and Development

• Recruit, develop, and retain a strategic and operationally capable talent skilled and knowledgeable in technology applied to scientific communications processes and capabilities.
• Build an organizational culture that fosters behaviors to be bold, fast, and clear and embeds diversity, equity, and inclusion.
• Coach for performance elevation

Minimum Qualification Requirements:

• Bachelor’s Degree
• 5 years’ experience in medical communications, clinical research or pharmaceutical drug development process.
• Demonstrated experience in Project Management or Lean Six Sigma

Other Information/Additional Preferences:

• Prior management experience
• Bachelor’s or Advanced degree (PharmD, PhD, MBA) in a healthcare or scientific field
• Experience with business systems (e.g. PRISM), scientific content generation technology
• Demonstrated ability to engage and leverage third party vendors to support flexible capacity allocation.
• Strong knowledge of the creation and delivery of regulatory, publication, commercialization and/or healthcare communication plans

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Actual compensation will depend on a candidate’s education, experience, skills, and geographic location. The anticipated wage for this position is
$151,500 – $244,200

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).Lilly reserves the right to amend, modify, or terminate its compensation and benefit programs in its sole discretion and Lilly’s compensation practices and guidelines will apply regarding the details of any promotion or transfer of Lilly employees.

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