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.
Value, Evidence and Outcomes (VEO)- LCCI – Senior Director
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 39,000 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. Lilly Capabilities Center India (LCCI) is an important part of Lilly’s strategy of leveraging and integrating global talent towards delivering timely medicines to patients in need. 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.
Purpose:
The demand for high quality health economic and outcomes research (HEOR) and real-world evidence (RWE) to support drug development, health technology assessment/access decisions, product differentiation, and clinical decision making continues to increase. The purpose of the Lilly Value, Evidence, and Outcomes (VEO) team is to accelerate equitable patient access and transform healthcare delivery through the design, execution and communication of bold, high impact science. We are looking for talented, energetic, creative, diverse, influential, and collaborative team members to join the VEO function and Team Lilly.
The purpose of the VEO- LCCI Senior Director role is to provide strategic leadership for the LCCI-VEO teams (including Therapeutic Area teams, Economic Modelling, Project Management, and RWE Analysts); to develop the long term vision and strategy for the VEO LCCI team (in partnership with VEO leadership), to drive completion of projects, and to define, build, and lead an inclusive, high performing team while providing administrative direction, leadership, process expertise and influence to members of the broader VEO organization. The Senior Director will also be responsible for managing the daily operations of the teams through capacity planning, timely delivery of high quality work, capabilities building, and personnel management. This includes recruiting and training team members, ensuring staff performance and career development; providing project and business planning/management; and coordinating cross-functional communication and collaboration with VEO global and international groups. The Senior Director will supervise and work closely with the people leaders supporting LCCI-VEO team to set strategic goals and ensure alignment with Lilly and global VEO objectives. In addition, the Senior Director is responsible for budget and resource management, asset protection, coaching and mentoring, staff development, performance management, project planning/management, knowledge sharing, regulatory compliance, strategy implementation and execution, and process improvements. The Senior Director is also responsible for building relationships with key business partners (e.g., VEO Leadership, RDMC [Research, Development and Medical Capabilities] Leadership and LCCI Leadership. The Senior Director will be a member of the VEO, RDMC, and LCCI leadership teams.
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.
- Personnel Management & Organizational Leadership
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Health Outcomes
Capabilities
- Establish deep technical capabilities at LCCI with supervision of people leaders and a total staff comprised of diverse skill set accountable for hands-on Health Outcomes activities
- Use industry knowledge, industry network, and technology knowledge to stay current with respect to the rapidly changing ecosystem of tools/technology to set up a highly trained team and to build strategies catered to next generation capabilities.
- Drive innovation and science into the organization by identifying the right talent and technology opportunities to standardize/automate processes to free up time for more innovative work
- Be on the fore front to evaluate and adopt novel software/tools and evolving technologies that support and accelerate our strategy
- Engage, inspire, and motivate the team and its individual members to lead and deliver high impact business results
- Provide day-to-day coaching and performance management of personnel
- Provide technical leadership in developing future Health Outcomes (HO) leaders
- Provide leadership in recruiting, coaching, and mentoring LCCI talent and integrating them into global teams
- Recruit, develop, and retain a scientific and operationally capable workforce, skilled and knowledgeable in HO
- Measure and report performance & drive continuous improvement of key performance metrics
- Develop and implement a strategy for continuously exploring talent at LCCI, and integrate and leverage LCCI capabilities to drive global transformation
- Effectively create and manage an agile organization that continuously meets the needs of a changing portfolio
- Build an organizational culture that fosters inclusion and innovation.
- Develop staff who demonstrate expertise in drug development, therapeutic area science, project management and cross-functional leadership
- Develop an organizational talent base that demonstrates judgment-based decision making, and provides leadership in HEOR
- Retain, motivate, and aggressively develop key talent and future leadership
- Collaborate effectively with VEO leadership across the matrix to deliver on organizational goals
- Drive shared learning and process expertise between teams within the organization
- Ensure compliance to appropriate internal and external standards and policies
Execution
- Participate in strategy development and monitor metrics for on-time delivery of VEO projects.
- Partner closely with VEO leaders, and other functions as appropriate, to assess demand and effectively plan, forecast, and manage the resources required to deliver all sanctioned projects. Also, partner with them in driving project decisions related to portfolio execution options, including an integrated functional sourcing approach as appropriate.
- Prioritize and allocate resources to accomplish objectives, and track resource utilization and resolve issues related to scope of work
- Develop comprehensive understanding for self and LCCI teams regarding Lilly’s Therapeutic areas, VEO Regions and COEs.
- Establish and lead a multi-capability team while being a scientific thought leader for the group to enable effective and efficient delivery of high-quality clinical outcomes with aggressive metrics.
- Drive timely execution of HO Deliverables & strategies in partnership with Global VEO / International HTA functional leaders
- Accountable for development of annual business plan for LCCI VEO team, alignment of the business Leaders in Global VEO / International HTA on those plans, and ad hoc change control representation
- Collaborate with Global VEO & International HTA leaders to optimize knowledge sharing and collaboration across the Global HTA community
- Proactively identify gaps in information and plans for appropriate analysis and actions, and identify training for future analytical skills
- Collaborate with Global VEO / International HTA teams to assess and mitigate risks
Operations
- Ensure there is alignment of business planning and Operations, coordinating across and developing synergies with therapeutic areas, phases of development, and geographies
- Ensure appropriate, necessary, and effective metrics development, review/analysis, reporting, and issue resolution to drive business and operational changes
- Communicate with business partners on progress of deliverables and risk mitigation strategies developed and implemented
- Drive efficiency and continuous improvements and to more efficiently and productively support therapeutic area and Business Unit aligned deliverables
- Initiate and drive initiatives critical to productivity and high quality delivery
- Enterprise Leadership
- Within functional and cross-functional teams, exhibit strong technical know-how, business acumen, strong problem-solving skills and agility to adjust to changing business priorities and needs
- Represent the VEO organization at appropriate internal and external venues to demonstrate the leadership
- Maintain awareness of payer requirements, particularly those related to the US, EU, Japan, and China, and be connected externally to be considered an external thought leader
- Be influential as an external thought leader in the area of HEOR and RWE by being highly connected and driving the changes at the industry level through relevant organizations like Asia ISPOR.
- Ensure that activities are performed according to established guidelines, best practices, and in compliance with all laws and regulations
- Drive continuous improvement of key performance metrics
- Drive shared learning and process expertise between teams within the organization
Minimum Qualification Requirements:
- Doctoral (e.g. PhD, DrPH, ScD, MD, DO, MBBS), Master’s or PharmD degree in a scientific or quantitative discipline
- Minimum of 15 years of pharmaceutical industry experience, preferably in Health Economics (HE) / HO or related field (e.g. epidemiology, biostatistics, etc.)
- Minimum of 10 years of previous successful supervisory and leadership experience over large teams (e.g. more than 50)
- Minimum of 5+ years successfully working in and with global/ international organizations
- Demonstrated mastery of written English with experience in medical, scientific or technical fields; professional verbal skills in English
- Broad knowledge of the drug development process which includes industry requirements, quality expectations, and practices
Other Information/Additional Preferences:
Additional Preferences:
- Cognitive abilities including verbal reasoning, attention to detail, critical thinking, and analytical ability
- Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to be flexible in varying environments and with multiple customer groups
- Highly self-motivated and capable of working in a fully diverse (virtual) team
- Therapeutic area or other medical and scientific-specific knowledge and experience
- Previous expertise in health outomes research or similar function
- Ability to work well across cultures and time zones
- Demonstrated people management skills
- Strong project management skills
- Exceptional team building and relationship building skills
- Demonstrated ability to influence across boundaries
- Demonstrated ability to think and operate creatively and strategically
- Strong communication skills
- An active member of scientific societies such as ISPOR, AP-ISPOR, HTAi, etc.
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