Eli Lilly and Company · 21 hours ago
Senior Director - Patient Engagement; Recruitment, Diversity & Retention
Indianapolis, IN
Full-time
Onsite
Director/Executive
$156K/yr - $253K/yr
10+ years expEli Lilly and Company is a global healthcare leader headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana, focused on improving the lives of people around the world. The Senior Director of Patient Engagement is responsible for developing and implementing innovative recruitment and retention strategies for clinical trials, ensuring patient engagement and optimizing trial participation.
BiotechnologyHealth CareMedicalPharmaceutical
Responsibilities
Accountable for collaborating with internal & external geographic leaders to understand the global healthcare environment and pathways people follow to receive care
Accountable for developing global strategies to reach and engage people, patients, trusted intermediaries, and physicians to develop clinical trial pathways for representative populations accelerating enrollment of the portfolio
Accountable for setting clear strategic global recruitment & retention goals, deliverables and associated timelines that will be systematically supervised for performance via defined metrics and measures
Accountable for collaborating with functional leaders to ensure appropriate prioritization and delivery of work products that increase access of clinical trials to diverse populations, accelerate enrollment, and maximize retention of trial participants
Accountable for supervising and assessing external innovation to ensure capabilities remain dynamic relative to the industry. They will partner with patient engagement capabilities to supervise delivery and provide critical insights to rapidly iterate and improve patient engagement
Responsible for leading with an agile mentality, driving efficiencies, shared learning, and influencing applicable trial design and delivery strategies across the CDDA
Ensure activities are driven consistent with established guidelines, procedures and in compliance with all appropriate regulations globally
Identify and drive procedures and shared learning across the Patient Engagement organization, CDDA and broadly in LRL
Enable a culture of continuous improvement to drive efficiency through process optimization, data utilization, technology and automation, innovation, people experience and capabilities, and shared learning
Demonstrate high learning agility with ability to anticipate and solve business needs with innovative solutions and self-motivated to achieve high quality results in a fast paces environment
Accountable for collaborating with functional leaders to understand the patient recruitment and retention capabilities in countries in which we conduct clinical trials and incorporate applicable capabilities to optimize portfolio delivery
Engage in the global drug development community to ensure external learnings are incorporated into continuous improvement efforts
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's degree in a scientific or health related field (or equivalent degree)
10 years experience in the pharmaceutical industry with drug development experience, and clinical research experience
Preferred
Post-graduate degree, e.g., Pharm D, M.S., M.B.A. or Ph.D
Experience leading through ground-breaking change
Demonstrated ability to influence team members and extended team members
Prior project management experience and/or experience leading multi-disciplinary teams
Demonstrated ability to take strategic knowledge and effectively influence the direction of daily operations
Solid understanding of quality systems
Project management experience and results oriented experience
Deliver strong customer experiences
Travel required (10-25%)
Benefits
Company bonus
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
Well-being benefits (e.g., employee assistance program, fitness benefits, and employee clubs and activities)
Company
Eli Lilly and Company
We're a medicine company turning science into healing to make life better for people around the world.
10001+ employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$6.5M2024-02-12Post Ipo Debt· $6.5M
1978-01-13IPO
Leadership Team
David Ricks
Chair, CEO
Lucas Montarce
Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
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