Associate Director - Regional Clinical Research Lead

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We’re looking for people who are determined to make life better for people around the world.

The Regional Clinical Research Lead (rCRL) leads the execution of clinical trials across a country/region/ globally for complex and high priority programs to enable global clinical trial delivery. The rCRL anticipates, mitigates and resolves risks to ensure timely delivery of clinical trial enrollment across the country / region(s) / globe. The rCRL is responsible to identify and execute process improvement opportunities using their understanding of cross functional interdependencies to enable end to end delivery of clinical programs.

This rCRL role is based in and responsible for the United States region with a focus on Cardiometabolic Health (CMH) therapeutic areas.

• Accountable to gather the insights and represent the geographical complexity and leads the coordinated effort for delivery of large, complex and high priority programs within countries / regions / globally
• Leverage deep expertise in regional trial execution to represent Investigator Engagement in cross functional clinical trial forums. Recognized as a Leader in Clinical Development, influencing study design and delivery and leads initiatives to drive improvements and deliver the portfolio
• Anticipate, mitigate and resolve complex and key operational risks, driving to enable timely delivery of clinical trial enrollment commitments and database locks across a country/region or portfolio
• Regional Leadership for inspection preparation and management. Proactively identify and drive for inspection readiness at all times.
• Leverage deep scientific and disease expertise within a TA (s), understand regional and local treatment paradigms and patient access mechanisms to influence platform/protocol decisions to enable reliable enrollment and implementation.
• Use insights from a broad range of sources including vendor oversight, best practices and metrics to identify and deliver functional process improvements.
• Utilize strategic knowledge of the Lilly portfolio and priorities to lead targeted prospecting and anticipate future needs for Investigator engagement.

• Leads CRLs in comprehensive Investigator management activities, including Investigator identification, qualification and selection, enrollment readiness, planning and execution through to database lock and close out for complex trials and portfolios across a country/region. Ownership for key hospitals / institutions / networks
• Independently detects and leads potential opportunities to accelerate trial enrollment across a country/region/ globally. Proactively identifies risks and implements mitigations to ensure Investigator performance and Clinical Trial delivery
• Leverages deep scientific, therapeutic area, and institutional/regional expertise to engage in scientific discussions with the investigator and institution personnel within a country / region
• Owns strategic institutional/ Investigator relationships to optimize the delivery of clinical trial programs, including across therapeutic areas where applicable

• Lead across portfolio / program to establish and develop strong professional relationships to expand/maintain clinical research partnership opportunities
• Understand cross functional interdependencies and identify opportunities for collaboration and process improvement, enabling end to end delivery of clinical programs
• Drive required interactions between external and internal partners (inclusive of affiliate and regional interactions and initiatives as applicable)
• Identify long and short-term customer, competitive and environmental trends and…