Job Description

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 35,000 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\xe2\x80\x99re looking for people who are determined to make life better for people around the world.

LCCI Associate/Senior Associate Project Manager \xe2\x80\x93 Medical Affairs

Purpose:

Scientific data and information are core assets of Lilly. Providing balanced, objective, and accurate information to regulators, the scientific community, health care professionals, payers, and patients in a consistent and timely fashion across the entire drug development lifecycle is fundamental to Lilly.

As healthcare providers are deluged with data and are making choices in an increasingly complex and stressed health system, Lilly Medical Affairs strives to provide clear, credible answers that will set Lilly apart from its competitors. Medical Affairs\xe2\x80\x99 mission is to make Lilly the preferred pharmaceutical partner in the healthcare community globally by leveraging its medical expertise to drive patient-centric answers and solutions. Medical Affairs (MA) brings deep medical expertise to healthcare providers and payers. MA focuses on answering their questions with customized clinical and real-world evidence that can make the difference on if and how they use Lilly products. Additionally, MA brings clinical insights from customers back to the company to inform new product development and lifecycle planning. MA also supports patients with educational tools to help them manage their illness and with assistance to access our medicines for those facing tough financial situations. The MA content development team will be key in maintaining and creating content to support Medical Affairs activities such as:

Slide Updates

Internal Training Slides

Manuscript Slides

Data Slides

Newsletters/ bulletin

QR Compendium

Affiliate Regional Slides

HCP & patient education material

Advisory board slides

Competitive landscape slides

Image sourcing, image redraws

Lexicon

MQAD (Medical Questions Analysis Document)

Primary Responsibilities

1. Deliver Effective Results

Facilitate LCCI MA delivery of project milestones with quality, on time, on planned savings, and within scope to meet or exceed team goals.

Help the staff to meet or exceed overall project goals (update of milestones and completion of studies)

Ensure that cost, timeline, and scope are in place on the team to monitor and control performance.

Partner with scientific writers, editors, and creative designers to ensure achievement of key project deliverables in alignment with the agreed project plan

Highlight quickly and effectively any challenges to the achievement of the project deliverables and ensure any changes to scope/timelines are communicated to leadership and timely captured.

Proactively deliver results through good project management practices and effective communication skills.

Conduct effective and timely project data updates into appropriate databases liaising closely with MA Operations to ensure accurate data input.

Participate and deliver tasks related to annual business planning process in close partnership with the respective team leaders and group leaders at LCCI MA.

Support the monitoring and documentation of deliverables/milestones as well as metric reporting associated with team performance to share with Leadership and other functions.

Lead the application and integration of key project management processes and tools across teams and/or subsets of teams to deliver asset and portfolio value with quality on time, on budget and within scope.

Effectively manage upward and cross-functional communication, anticipate and resolve issues with the team, with asset and portfolio in mind

Ensure documentation of key team/asset information and decisions and ensure project management systems are up to date.

Create, manage, and track project vehicles, including, but not limited to:

Project schedules

Detailed project plans

Project scope statements

Cost estimates

Resource plans

Risk and issue logs

Status reports

Conduct Root Cause Analysis (RCA) and Corrective Action and Preventive Action (CAPA) as required

Implement effective risk management and mitigation strategies to ensure good health of projects and engagements with the business partners

Effective collaborate with the global and local teams to implement best project management practices

Create and lead the development of SOPs, job aids, and best practice documents that help in increasing productivity and efficiency

2. Organizational and Operational Effectiveness

Partner with LCCI scientific writers, group leaders, team leaders, and MA Communication PMs to proactively resolve process-related issues.

Adhere to MQS/Global Medical/Compliance standards, policies, and procedures, as well as to time entry, and applicable quality reviews and audits

Implement, apply, integrate, and optimize standard project management processes and tools

Establish, maintain, and use LCCI SharePoint site or other tools to promote communication to cross-functional and global MA stakeholders.

Ensure shared learning, process improvement, and identification and incorporation of best practices into future iterations of processes, tools, training, or guidance.

Build effective and interactive dashboard templates and tools for effective metric collection and accurate reporting

Proactively suggest process optimization initiatives and lead the change

3. Leadership and Influence

Supports the execution of both \xe2\x80\x9cright to operate\xe2\x80\x9d activities and day-to-day job fulfillment necessities (e.g., business planning, BCM) as specified by Leadership.

Seek opportunities to capture and share learning cross-functionally and participate in processes improvement efforts to improve LCCI MA\xe2\x80\x99s project management and business processes including six sigma projects and special initiatives.

Identify and bring forth ideas for continual process improvement to team and function

Actively manage relationships with internal business partners to ensure a positive and productive working environment.

Minimum Qualification Requirements

Degree or equivalent work experience.

Knowledge of Lilly Quality Systems (SEQS, LQS, MQS) or experience with Quality Systems.

Strong interpersonal, team working, and leadership skills. Able to adapt to diverse interpersonal styles.

Strong attention to detail demonstrating accuracy in tracking and reporting data

Strong customer focus.

Good problem-solving skills

Ability to anticipate and recognize problems, diagnose root causes, and take corrective actions to prevent recurrence

Strong oral and written communication skills; able to communicate clearly, timely, and succinctly.

Strong self-management and organizational skills; able to manage workload and adjust personal priorities as needed.

Flexibility to adjust quickly and effectively to frequent change and altered priorities.

Strong computer skills including Outlook, OneNote, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, SharePoint, MS Forms, GoogleSheets, etc.

Good understanding of analytical and reporting tools such as Power BI, Power Apps, Tableau etc.

Proficiency in using excels for data collection and reporting including Macros, Pivots, VLOOKUP etc.

Other Information/Additional Preferences

Work experience in the pharmaceutical industry; knowledge of drug development and/or Medical Affairs.

Knowledge Medical Affairs specific procedures, references, job aids.

Knowledge of project management skills, tools, and processes in areas such as timeline and cost.

Expected to use predictive analytics to analyze the data and make it in presentable format to the leadership

Proficiency in a variety of PC applications and databases including Microsoft Project, SAP (primarily project systems), Visio, pivot tables, scorecard visuals.

Other Information

Minimal international travel required.

Eli Lilly and Company, Lilly USA, LLC and our wholly owned subsidiaries (collectively \xe2\x80\x9cLilly\xe2\x80\x9d) are committed to help individuals with disabilities to participate in the workforce and ensure equal opportunity to compete for jobs. If you require an accommodation to submit a resume for positions at Lilly, please email Lilly Human Resources ( Lilly_Recruiting_Compliance@lists.lilly.com ) for further assistance. Please note This email address is intended for use only to request an accommodation as part of the application process. Any other correspondence will not receive a response.

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