Senior Director

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Position Overview:

The Executive Director – Global Imaging Portfolio and Project Management, Global Imaging, will report directly to the Global Imaging Platform Leader. This pivotal leadership role is responsible for steering the operational execution of the Lilly Global Imaging Platform. The incumbent will oversee the portfolio management for both nonclinical and clinical imaging functions, fostering innovation and excellence in Imaging Research and Development. By integrating cross-functional capabilities and aligning with corporate objectives, this role will drive transformative advancements in imaging science to support Lilly’s mission of improving lives through groundbreaking medical discoveries.

Responsibilities:

Enable Strategy

• Serves as a strategic partner in organizing and administering Imaging Research and Development (Global Imaging Platform) at Lilly
• Ensures communication across functional areas such as Clinical Development, Medical, Imaging Operations, Imaging R&D, Regulatory, Business Development, and field medical teams; facilitates effective cross functional communication with Lilly Operations, Product R&D manufacturing, Finance, Quality, and Lilly therapeutic business units.
• Acts as a liaison to shared resources at Lilly to advocate for the needs of the imaging research and development organization
• Works with project management and imaging team to ensure appropriate communication with imaging and therapeutic clinical protocol teams
• Helps determine and track deployment of resources to support imaging biomarkers and diagnostic needs of early phase and portfolio-level assets (including but not limited to neuroscience and oncology.)

Deliver Results

• Coordinates delivery of milestones on time, on budget, and within scope, including budget management; Delivers effective reporting and visualization of project milestones and risks
• Ensures that the team, key stakeholders and the broader organization understand key project risks. Drive risk management processes to ensure appropriate plans and actions are in place.  Provide justification for risk mitigation plans and seek approval as needed
• Utilizes fundamental project management capabilities, processes and tools to execute the development plans, monitoring and managing cross functional team performance and metrics with appropriate and timely escalation as necessary to mitigate risks and meet/beat timelines
• Delivers cross-functional results through people by utilizing project management, influence, and communication skills
• Drives documentation and communication of key decisions, actions, and key modifications in time, budget, scope, and risk to key stakeholders
• Develops a robust issues management process for the team
• Facilitates the resolution of issues that impact key project deliverables.
• Develops and drives cross functional efforts for continuous improvement and transformation to support growth, acceleration, and scalability

Team Culture

• Directly supervises and contributes to career development for Avid R&D project management. Ensures productive mentoring. 
• Actively coaches and mentors talent across the Philadelphia site
• Creates an environment that encourages intelligent risk taking within the team and manage risk at the team and portfolio level.
• Ensures that team members actively participate in shared learning events.  Actively identify and share valuable key learning and optimized practices within and across teams 
• Fosters an inclusive environment, strive to champion inclusion efforts across team
• Removes barriers for the team
• Influences implementation plans and strategies of key corporate business processes that affect team processes 

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelors’ degree in Scientific field and/or MBA required.
• Minimum of 10 years working in project management and or clinical development.
• Qualified applicants must be authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis. Lilly will not provide support for or sponsor work authorization and/or visas for this role.

Additional Skills/Preferences:

• Bachelors’ degree in a scientific field preferred
• Clinical research or development experience in imaging, oncology or neuroscience preferred
• Excellent oral and written communication skills; able to communicate clearly and succinctly to all levels within the organization; able to develop credibility in a network that spans a wide variety of functional components and external networks.
• Experience working in a heavily matrixed organization where shared decision making is common; Hands on experience performing project management for a cross-functional project and/or major organizational change initiative.
• Deep understanding and experience with the integrated drug development process, including GMP and GCP concepts
• Ability to understand and integrate translational research strategies into a single consolidated, cohesive product strategy, and then, translate that into an implementable cross-functional plan.
• Ability to influence others without direct authority. Role model of strong interpersonal and teambuilding skills; able to create a shared vision and productively manage conflict between team members with diverse interpersonal styles; able to deliver effective coaching and feedback.
• Strong problem-solving, organizational, and administrative skills; able to anticipate and recognize systemic problems, diagnose root causes, develop contingency plans
• Strong understanding of business fundamentals with the ability to maintain a corporate view of the portfolio.
• Demonstrated ability to provide financial and budget oversight.
• Previous management experience leading a cross-functional team of people to deliver on an objective.
• Able to exercise sound judgment and take and defend tough positions.
• Role model in applying knowledge of effective project management tools and processes (e.g. management of integration, scope, time, cost, quality, human resources, etc.).
• Experience in managing relationships and work plans with external partners
• 20% Travel

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Actual compensation will depend on a candidate’s education, experience, skills, and geographic location.  The anticipated wage for this position is

Full-time equivalent employees also will be eligible for a company bonus (depending, in part, on company and individual performance). In addition, Lilly offers a comprehensive benefit program to eligible employees, including eligibility to participate in a company-sponsored 401(k); pension; vacation benefits; eligibility for medical, dental, vision and prescription drug benefits; flexible benefits (e.g., healthcare and/or dependent day care flexible spending accounts); life insurance and death benefits; certain time off and leave of absence benefits; and well-being benefits (e.g., employee assistance program, fitness benefits, and employee clubs and activities).Lilly reserves the right to amend, modify, or terminate its compensation and benefit programs in its sole discretion and Lilly’s compensation practices and guidelines will apply regarding the details of any promotion or transfer of Lilly employees.

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