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Organization Overview:
Does bringing some of the largest transformational changes to clinical research in two decades excite you? Does working in a collaborative team gaining direct experience delivering solutions for patients who are waiting on our medical advancements sound interesting? On the Clinical Design Technology at Lilly team, we work as one team partnering with Clinical Trial Foundations, Clinical Systems, and the Clinical Design Hub delivering cost-effective science through the development of novel and innovative clinical trial designs and technology solutions. Our business outcomes are focused on speeding drug development and providing the best experience for providers and patients.
Purpose and Responsibilities:
As the clinical design & operations product lead you will work with outstanding and passionate leaders across Clinical Design, Operations, Results, and Development to implement a strategy for highly creative and bold efforts. As the role of clinical technology evolves to now include digital design, remote activity management, investigational software, digital endpoints, and novel measurement tools, you will coordinate lots of fast evolving, moving parts and help integrate them back into the overall vision to ensure we are focused on the outcomes most important to our patients and providers. You will partner across our teams to develop business case proposals and progress those proposals through planning, building, implementation, and value realization. You will work alongside Quality and Regulatory to identify and mitigate risks as you are discussing the technical trade-offs in clinical development to bring our innovations to patients. A successful candidate for the role will have a strong technical curiosity for crafting delightful patient and site experiences in the clinical research setting with our next generation of medicines.
Implementing Strategy & Drive Commitments (35%)
Partner with business partners to define detailed business and technical requirements to ensure alignment with intended business and patient outcomes.
Provide the hands-on technical depth/expertise to support internal developers and vendor teams in deliver project outcomes
Develop and maintain metrics to monitor project value delivery as well as scale-up readiness
Contribute to the technical strategy across clinical design & operations, imparting and ensuring support of the technical needs of business partners
Agile Portfolio and Product Delivery (35%)
Run Agile product deliveries that involve multi-functional teams. Multi-task and provide servant leadership for scrum teams to delivery prioritized work items.
Ensure Agile product development activities align with technical specifications, and that teams rely on data to create the best research and development concepts and products.
Lead multi-functional software development projects to achieve team goals, including planning, dependency mapping, product road-mapping, and technical problem solving.
External Innovation and Influence (15%)
Collaborate with external organizations to bring industry-standard methodology back into the Lilly and forge new business developments to accelerate technical innovation.
Better integrate clinical standards, device standards, and technical standards across our quality management systems.
Personal Development & Personal Projects (15%)
You will have the opportunity to invest 15% of your time in personal development and/or a personal project of your choice (e.g. Clinical Development Special Project, Clinical Design Special Project, Usability Research, etc.)
Basic Requirements: BA/BS degree in a technical field
3+ years of technical program management experience.
ScrumMaster Certification or ability to achieve CSM within 6 months
Additional Skills/Preferences:Consistent track-record of effective technical project management skills: project planning, status reporting, timeline estimation, issue management, meeting facilitation, process documentation, and priorities alignment
Business case development experience including Net Present Value (NPV) analysis and justification
Prior experience with Request for Proposals and vendor evaluations
Ability to identify high value tasks and work independently
Great teammate and creative problem solver with strong communication abilities
Experience with tools such as Jira, MS Project, or HP ALM
A high level of intellectual curiosity, external perspective, and innovation interest
Comfortable working on early-stage projects in an environment with ambiguity and change
Ability to contribute to technical discussions, especially in the systems architecture and validation domains, and exercise technical and product judgment to independently resolve project issues
Experience developing and delivering highly sophisticated patient technology.
Additional Information:The position is located at Lilly Corporate Center in Indianapolis, IN - Relocation required
Travel may be required periodically
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