Job Description
Associate Director Clinical Delivery Program Lead
Join Eli Lilly Cork's Talented Team
We are a global healthcare leader headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana, united by our passion to make life better for people around the world.
About the Job
The Associate Director Clinical Delivery Program Lead is a key role in our organization, responsible for leading the creation and execution of clinical development plans at a molecule level.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead the development of clinical asset strategies for phase 1, leveraging quality decision-making principles.
- Understand assigned therapeutic areas, including trial designs, risks, execution challenges, and best practices.
- Provide consultation to project teams for clinical and regulatory documents, such as study protocols, Investigator Brochures, and risk profiles.
- Stay informed and familiar with current body of knowledge of relevant disease states, competitors, and industry trends and best practices.
- Maintain knowledge of operational requirements to effectively plan exploratory and biopharmaceutics clinical development studies and submissions.
Clinical Project Management:
- Lead and have expertise in the implementation and integration of clinical project management processes and tools.
- Work with Third Party Organizations to execute defined clinical strategies, overseeing key trial deliverables.
- Develop and maintain up-to-date clinical plan timelines and process maps, ensuring communication of progress to the broader molecule team.
- Partner with financial organizations, cross-functional partners, and geographies to develop and manage overall clinical budgets for molecule-level book of work.
Clinical Operations:
- Accountable and responsible for oversight of clinical trial operations and delivery of clinical project milestones on time and on budget.
- Create and manage implementation timelines and clinical trial activities.
- Involved in selection process and management of vendors, providing day-to-day oversight for operational deliverables.
- Serve as central point of contact for global clinical team, resolving clinical implementation issues, leading risk assessments, and contingency planning.
Communication and Team Management:
- Influence and work with quality mindset across clinical team, documenting key decisions, actions, and key modifications in clinical scope, resources, and timeline.
- Manage key partnerships and interactions/integration with clinical team, including leadership in governance forums.
- Effectively and reliably communicate and influence at all levels across organization, clear and concise information to enable decision-making by team and stakeholders.
Leadership:
- Collaborate effectively with colleagues at all levels, able to work with and deliver through others.
- Skilled at working through ambiguity and effective problem-solving/solution-oriented skills to help develop and evaluate molecule-level strategies.
- Successful in persuasion, influence, and negotiation skills in a matrix environment.
- Foster spirit of learning agility, strategic thinking, and ability to think differently to incorporate new learning.
Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree in a science-related field from an accredited college or university.
- 3 years' experience in the pharmaceutical industry with direct experience of managing clinical studies, ideally in exploratory and biopharmaceutics clinical development (5+ years preferred).
About Eli Lilly Cork:
Eli Lilly Cork is a talented and diverse team of over 1,600 employees across 38 nationalities, delivering innovative solutions across various Business Service functions.
We offer a premium workspace, flexible hybrid working options, healthcare, pension, and life assurance benefits, subsidised canteen, onsite gym, travel subsidies, and on-site parking.
We are committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion, catering for all dimensions, ensuring inclusion of all ethnicities, nationalities, cultural backgrounds, generations, sexuality, visible and invisible disabilities, and gender.