Associate Director- Central Clinical Services

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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

The Clinical Central Services and Innovation (CCSI) organization is responsible for strategically planning and supplying materials, trial support services and innovative capabilities to support the execution of clinical trials globally for all business units across all phases of development. This group is within the Clinical Capabilities organization and partners across functions within the CDDA and PRD to influence trial design and provide solutions to operationalize these trials and enable asset strategies across the portfolio.

The Associate Director of CCSI is passionate about delivering the implementation of clinical capabilities including but not limited to mobile health care, telemedicine, virtual trial orchestration, recruitment & retention, new site models, central services and/or digital devices. This role will also be responsible for vendor management to support the capabilities.

Responsibilities

Central Clinical Services

• Ensure vendors deliver education and lead studies and partner screening and consenting.
• Supervise vendors in initiating and handling all assessment scheduling, logistics, technology, and communication for partners, central raters, investigators, and other study-related entities including MRI centers and infusion centers, where applicable.
• Ensure vendors maintain all study documentation and data entry into applicable technology solutions.
• Contribute to process optimization
• Lead decisions across studies and across vendors that impact operations.
• Make decisions in the best interest of the participant, partner, investigator and/or other site staff to drive improved experiences and optimal efficiency.
• Serves as expert and influences complex business and technical decision and process improvements.
• Supervise the vendor partner day to day operations and provide mentor and training, as vital.
• Provide expertise related to budget processes and identify strategic levers to acquire cost savings and efficiency gains.
• Actively run trial, country and site-level tasks ensuring all study assessments are completed with the highest quality and within protocol parameters.
• Coordinate financial responsibilities including purchase order creation, invoice management, study-specific center payments and payment reconciliation.
• Develop and implement methods, mechanisms, and tools to meet and measure investigator, participant, partner, and vendor satisfaction
• Monitor site contacts (e.g., calls, written communication, etc.) and KPIs (key performance indicators), to ensure CCS is in accordance with Lilly Standards (Patient Safety, Medical Quality, privacy etc.) and external and regulatory requirements.
• Generate, revise and train CCS team on site documents (e.g., operational manual, FAQ document, etc.)
• Influence vendors to develop strong partnerships wit Investigators, and other site staff. Lead internal relationships across the CDDA (Trial Capabilities, Investigator Engagement, Patient Engagement, Clinical Design, Clinical Development, Asset Team, CCSI, CLS, SD&A)
• Lead and be a resource for others on local regulations, laws, and guidance (e.g., FDA, ICH), Quality and Business Systems, and Good Clinical Practices (GCP) to achieve inspection readiness and detect and resolve quality issues.
• Apply problem-solving skills and effectively partner with institutions, investigators, and cross-functional study team to resolve issues ensuring solutions meet regulatory and ICH/GCP requirements.
• Handles ethics review board interactions; interacts with auditors; supports inspections; creates and maintains strong investigator relationship.
• Build, communicate, and implement site and country level risk mitigation and contingency plans.

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in a scientific field or health-related field
• 5 years’ experience in Clinical Trials/Development and good solid understanding of Good Clinical Practice
• 3+ years’ experience in working with and handling CROs or external vendors for the execution of clinical trials
• Remote position, but MUST be local to Indianapolis

Additional Skills and Preferences:

• Demonstrated leadership skills with ability to influence, achieve results through others and lead across the business and across regions/geographies
• Experience in supervision, coaching and mentoring others
• Demonstrated business insight (financial oversight, business development, business planning)
• Proficient in English [Fluency in Spanish is a bonus]
• Knowledge of country regulatory guidelines/requirements for clinical research conduct
• Strong interpersonal skills
• Demonstrated decision-making ability
• Ability to develop and apply creative solutions

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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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