Sr. Director - ExploR&D AI and Automation Transformation,

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.

At JP Morgan 2024, Dave Ricks announced Lilly Catalyze360, our external innovation organization dedication biotech collaboration which is comprised of three pillars: 1) Lilly Ventures, providing capital direct to biotechs and via a fund-of-funds investment strategy; 2) Lilly Gateway Labs, a best-in-class network of biotech incubators; and 3) ExploR&D. 
 

The ExploR&D mission is unleashing Lilly’s world-leading capabilities and know-how to accelerate the science of our collaborators to value inflection, and to patients. Through a unique model that mixes dedicated headcount and flexible use of functional and therapeutic area expertise, we will provide the knowledge and services to enable our collaborator’s programs, ensuring Lilly is networked with the brightest scientific minds around the world, positioning Lilly as a partner of choice for biotechs to fuel our industry-leading pipeline and creating value for the scientific ecosystem. 
 

With the pace of technological disruption accelerating, ExploR&D also affords Lilly an agile way to pilot and deploy new technologies and vendor solutions that can increase the speed and efficiency in the way drugs are discovered and developed, both for our biotech collaborators, and by providing de-risked opportunities to evolve how Lilly and LRL operates. To ensure we deliver an unmatched value proposition to potential biotech collaborators, we are building an AI-enabled digital collaboration ecosystem, an ExploR&D IT enterprise solution that is designed to allow seamless co-creation with our external biotech teams and create speed and efficiency for biotech R&D.
 

The purpose of the ExpoR&D Sr. Director – AI and Automation Transformation, is to lead the AI and Automation strategy, planning, and implementation across the ExploR&D organization. This role will lead the AI and Automation workstream for ExploR&D and will partner closely with ExploR&D Leaders to create a roadmap and measurable value targets, aiming to increase the speed, efficiency and capacity of the organization through AI and automation. This role will be a key leader on the ExploR&D IT Enterprise core team, providing insight and technical contributions to the overall ExploR&D IT Enterprise strategy, ensuring alignment between AI and automation transformation with the enterprise.  The ExploR&D AI and Automation Transformation Sr. Director will report to the Chorus Clinical Operations Associate Vice President.

To learn more about ExploR&D: http://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=023exhA9irY

Job Responsibilities:

• Accelerate the AI transformation agenda by partnering with ExploR&D peers to manage the portfolio of AI and automation transformation projects in clinical settings.

• Work with leaders across Lilly and LRL, as well as within ExploR&D, to identify priority areas where AI and automation can accelerate or create efficiencies in drug discovery and development, and where ExploR&D can help accelerate change.

• Orchestrate, design, and deliver the underlying data foundations that powers AI, reporting insights, other applications, and integrations between ExploR&D Enterprise Systems

• Design and implement scalable data ecosystems that support advanced analytics and machine learning. This includes integrating diverse data sources from clinical trials, real-world data, and other relevant sources.

• Create policies and systems that improve data accessibility for various stakeholders while maintaining compliance with regulatory requirements. Facilitate the development of self-service tools and platforms that empower end-users to extract insights efficiently.

• Regularly coordinate with LRL IT and cybersecurity teams to ensure that data infrastructure meets the highest standards of performance and security.

• Operationalize and manage ML pipelines, server/cluster utilization and loads for server operations

• Plan and prioritize based on work activities, lead group priorities, and address issues that arise in the normal course of business.

• Collaborate with ExploR&D Business and other Tech@Lilly stakeholders to improve ExploR&D’s capacity through AI and automation products and capabilities.

• Reinforce compliance and ethics expectations, develop team objectives, handle performance, provide coaching and feedback, and create pathways for development.

• Ensure effective knowledge management practices are implemented.

• Maintain an external focus to learn from and shape the external environment, ensuring ExploR&D’s competitive advantage. Oversee external partners to extend the team’s capacity.

• Develop persuasive cases and documentation to support and prioritize digital investments, ensuring on-time delivery.

• Partner with various delivery internal organizations to ensure high quality and timely solution delivery.

Basic Requirements:

• Master's in biology or science field in combination with computer science, drug development, or another related field, AND least 5 years of clinical development knowledge and/or experiences.

• Demonstrated history of implementation of AI/ML automation solution in clinical development and operations

• Prior experience in the design and successful implementation of technology platforms, products, and solutions

Additional preferences:

• Prior leadership experience

• Work experience and familiarity in cloud, AI, and/or automation-related technologies.

• 5 to 10 years of formal/informal leadership training experience

• Broad understanding of clinical processes and applications, and/or pharma industry knowledge and experience.

• Validated leadership in business relationship management, facilitating deep integration and strategic development.

• Shown ability to translate business requirements into appropriate systems and processes.

• Demonstrable ability to influence peers and management to drive project and process outcomes.

• Superb communication skills with the ability to remain calm and composed during inspections and effectively conveying our compliance with the quality system.

Additional Information:

• Position requires 10% Travel

• Position preferred to be located in Indianapolis, Indiana, working in a hybrid model

• Core work hours, Monday- Friday, On site minimally in building 28 at LCC, Tuesdays and Thursdays

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