Senior Director - Global Diagnostics Scientific Affairs

Job Description

Employment Type: Full time

Position Overview

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.

Organization Overview

At Lilly, we serve an extraordinary purpose. We make a difference for people around the globe by discovering, developing and delivering medicines that help them live longer, healthier, more active lives. Not only do we deliver breakthrough medications, but you also can count on us to develop creative solutions to support communities through philanthropy and volunteerism.

Role Overview

The Director - Global Diagnostic Scientific Affairs will leverage their deep lab medicine, pathology, and diagnostic industry knowledge and scientific acumen to create clear strategic plans for addressing barriers to diagnostic accuracy and availability across the globe. In addition, this leader will function as the lab medicine expert for the enterprise, supporting diagnostic integration into training, evidence generation planning, and global diagnostic Key Opinion Leader and conference prioritization.

Responsibilities

• Function as the subject matter expert on lab medicine across enterprise; centralized expertise on pre-analytical, analytical, and post-analytical lab processes for enterprise.
• Deliver a global diagnostic accuracy strategy including, but not limited to, diagnostic standardization, EQA Involvement, concordance studies, and early pathology/lab training curricula, where appropriate.
• Deliver a global diagnostic availability strategy including, but not limited to, creating regional diagnostic centers-of-excellence, and supporting test availability, where appropriate.
• Organize and support the centralized process and management for diagnostic guideline body submissions, (e.g., CAP, ADLM, IFCC).
• Organize and deliver input into the companion diagnostic partner selection process in diagnostic development.
• Collect and maintain a cross-business unit view of labs/markets and their adoption of testing, technology, etc. to inform strategy and companion diagnostic partner selection.
• Collect and disseminate insight on macro trends in diagnostic technology and support decisions on collaboration partners.
• Guide business units in pathology and lab medicine key external expert selection for inclusion in insight generation.
• Provide supportive diagnostic training to Lilly teams to upskill the organization.
• Ensure best practices are faithfully cross-pollinated and integrated across business units for diagnostic-relevant Lilly sponsored studies and collaborative research.
• Develop and maintain strong understanding of the clinical and anatomic pathology laboratory and its applications and relevance to Lilly portfolio.

Basic Requirements/Qualifications

• Ph.D., or other relevant doctorate
• 5 years of clinical or pharmaceutical industry experience

Additional Skills and Preferences

• 8+ years relevant diagnostic medical affairs experience
• Deep understanding of lab medicine
• Outcomes Focus: Demonstrated both a bias for action and focus on results.
• Problem Solving: Demonstrated ability to appropriately diagnose business problems and create and implement appropriate solutions.
• Measurement Orientation: Demonstrated ability and propensity to use data, measurement and analytics to diagnose problems and to evaluate the actual effect of changes implemented.
• Deep curiosity and drive to solve complex problems and create impactful solutions.
• Teamwork orientation, interpersonal astuteness, and able to work within a matrix.
• Ability to collaborate and influence across teams.