Clinical Research Physician (CRP) - Thoracic Oncology

Employment Type: Full-time

Position Overview

At Lilly, we serve an extraordinary purpose: to make life better for people around the world by discovering, developing, and delivering medicines that help them live longer, healthier, more active lives. Lilly Oncology has been delivering life-changing medicines and support to people living with cancer for over 50 years. Our oncology global medical affairs team seeks to understand, generate, and share key data, science, and insights to improve outcomes for cancer patients.

The Clinical Research Physician (CRP) in Lilly Oncology’s Global Medical Affairs organization will play an integral role in accelerating our impact on patient lives globally. Through the application of scientific and medical training, clinical expertise, and relevant experience, the CRP will support strategic planning, drug development, and commercialization activities, with a primary focus on our thoracic oncology platform.

Primary Responsibilities

The primary responsibility of the Global Medical Affairs CRP is to provide expert medical and scientific support to all aspects of the business, ultimately improving outcomes for those with cancer. This includes support for drugs in development, marketed products, and the disease state. The CRP will take a leadership role in:

• Understanding the therapeutic environment and Healthcare Provider (HCP) needs.
• Generating critical scientific evidence.
• Disseminating scientific data.

Core job responsibilities may include:

Environmental Insights and Customer Engagement

• Understand and anticipate the scientific information needs of customers (oncologists, payers, patients, health care providers).
• Engage external customers through 1:1 meetings, advisory boards, and congress-related activities.
• Build and cultivate key oncology thought leader relationships.
• Contribute to the development of medical strategies to support pre- and post-commercialization activities by working closely with Global Medical Affairs, clinical development, and brand teams.
• Identify and deliver solutions to close oncology clinical care gaps.
• Support internal field training of medical and commercial personnel.
• Develop and maintain appropriate collaborations and relationships with relevant professional societies.
• Stay on the cutting edge of emerging data/science, sharing key trends and data that could inform strategy.

Evidence Generation

• Identify evidence gaps and develop evidence generation proposals to address them.
• Drive scientific disclosure strategy and plans.
• Actively address customer questions in a timely fashion by leading data analyses and new clinical or health outcomes research efforts.
• Collaborate with clinical development to inform drug development plans and clinical trials.
• Participate in investigator identification and selection, in conjunction with clinical development teams.
• Inform collaborative and investigator-initiated research (IIR) plans and publications, as requested.

Scientific Data Dissemination/Exchange

• Understand and actively address the scientific information needs of external customers in accordance with global regulations and policies.

Company Information

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.