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The purpose of the Associate Director - Clinical Trial Design Capabilities- Budgets & Costing role is to drive the costing and forecasting efforts of clinical programs and trials by bringing together internal and external data and information, and in partnership with key business partners in Clinical development, Finance, and Project Management, we aim to drive excellence in clinical trial design, enabling more efficient planning and execution to speed medicines to patients.

Responsibilities:

• Develop strong working relationships with collaborators (i.e., CDDA functional leadership, Clinical Capabilities, Clinical Laboratory Sciences, Procurement, Clinical Development, LRL Finance) to:

• Document and update CDDA resource models used in Prism

• Develop modeled and/or manually generated project forecast and scenario cost estimates for clinical activities

• Maintain accurate costing information and forecasting reports for clinical trials

• Support needed model changes and partner with collaborators to ensure approved resource estimations are reflected accurately and promptly in PRISM for clinical components.

• Partner with key business partners on the development of key messages related to clinical forecast outcomes and troubleshooting clinical cost variances.

• Influence clinical development team members to consider cost effective options and provide optionality to teams based on prior experience and expertise.

• Anticipate changing collaborator needs and adapt to change effectively while considering strategy, technology options, operational implications, and impact on people as it relates to clinical costing and forecasting,

• Provide clinical trial cost breakdown for CDDA leadership cost comparison analysis (eg, Cost Per Patient breakdown)

• Develop/maintain new aggregate level grant cost estimate tools and techniques for forecasting activities in collaboration with CDDA functions

• Lead special projects as needed.

• Partner with the Project Management Systems, Project Management Office etc. teams to drive improvement to systems and reporting of clinical components (Prism).

• Proactively establish, implement, and monitor business processes to deliver accurate and prompt clinical cost information.

• Support alignment between Clinical Development, project management and clinical cost services provided by understanding and managing linkages within Vault Clinical and other systems as appropriate.

• Proactively identify impact of issues/changes on the process, people, and points of integration for clinical cost components.

• Partner with CDDA for maintenance and update of clinical forecasting processes documented in cDOS.

Basic Qualification:

• Bachelor's degree

• Minimum 4 years of experience working in drug development and /or clinical research

• At least 2 years of experience in investigator grant costing and forecasting clinical trial costs

Additional Skills/Preferences:

• Prior experience in drug development costs, specifically Exploratory Medicine and Clinical Research

• Strong preference for capacity planning, forecast estimation and/or drug development experience in Clinical functional areas

• Strong project management experience

• Knowledge of PRISM, Vault Clinical, eCTS and similar

• Ability to influence without authority (i.e. through informal or formal leadership and strong communication) value management for programs, projects, products, and trials across the Lilly portfolio

• Ability to build strong relationships and influence across multiple levels in an organization

• Ability to anticipate and recognize issues, diagnose root causes, propose creative alternatives, implement change, measure results, share findings, and create and implement standard methodologies

• Ability to learn quickly and adapt to work assignments flexibly

• Ability to understand the vision and strategy and align tactics accordingly

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