Associate Director - Statistical Programming

Eli Lilly and Company; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 3,500,000 - 5,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Lilly in Bengaluru is seeking an Associate Director - Statistical Programming to lead the Therapy Area portfolio, develop deep statistical capabilities, and manage a diverse team delivering high-quality clinical studies on schedule. You will partner with global leaders to drive project decisions and ensure compliance with regulatory expectations.

The role emphasizes cross-functional leadership, resource planning, and continuous improvement while advancing therapeutic-area expertise within the

Job description

At Lilly, the work is demanding because patients are waiting. We unite caring with discovery to help make life better for people around the world, knowing that every decision, every detail, and every day matters. Headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana, our over 50,000 employees around the globe take on complex challenges to discover and deliver life-changing medicines, strengthen how health is understood and managed, and support the communities we serve. This is hard, urgent, selfless work—but it’s work worth doing. If you’re driven by purpose and ready to bring your best to work that truly matters for patients, we invite you to join us.

Associate Director - Statistical Programming

About Lilly

At Lilly, everything we do starts with patients. We unite caring with discovery to make life better for people around the world. Headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana, our global team of over 50,000 employees work with urgency and purpose to discover and deliver life-changing medicines, strengthen how health is understood and managed, and support the communities we serve. We bring our best to this work because people depend on it. If you're driven by purpose and determined to make a meaningful difference for patients, we invite you to bring your skill and your commitment to Lilly.

About Lilly Research Labs, Bengaluru

At Lilly in Bengaluru, the research function works directly alongside Lilly's global teams to advance the science behind tomorrow's medicines. Whether through product research and development, computational modelling, data-driven experimentation, or the intelligence that shapes Lilly's external innovation strategy, the work here contributes to the pipeline that will determine which life-changing medicines reach patients across the globe.

Job Description

Portfolio Delivery & Strategy

• Develop comprehensive understanding of the Lilly's Therapeutic areas, Establish, and lead a therapy team/Cross-therapy team, be a scientific thought leader for the group to enable effective and efficient delivery of high-quality clinical studies.
• Effectively and efficiently deliver the Therapy Area portfolio with quality, on-time.
• Participate in strategy development and monitor metrics for on-time delivery of statistical support.
• Assess demand for resources, prioritize work, and resolve issues related to scope of work.
• Coordinate resource allocation and tracking for internal and outsourced projects.
• Communicate and resolve issues related to statistics with appropriate level of customer team personnel.
• Partner with Global leaders in driving project decisions related to clinical data execution options.
• Partner closely with other development and administrative functions to effectively plan, forecast, and manage the resources required to deliver all sanctioned projects.
• Develop deep Therapeutic area expertise within LCCI teams.

Statistical And Analytical Capabilities Development

• Establish deep technical capabilities at LCCI with supervision of direct reports and a total staff comprised of diverse skill set accountable for hands-on statistical activities.
• Develop strategies and build capabilities, and expertise within the team catering to advanced statistical capabilities.

Enterprise Leadership

• Within functional teams, exhibit strong technical know-how, business acumen, strong problem-solving skills and agility to adjust to changing business priorities and needs.
• Represent the Statistics, Data & Analytics organization at appropriate internal and external venues to demonstrate the leadership.
• Maintain awareness of regulatory requirements, particularly those related to the US, EU, Japan, and China, and be connected externally to be considered an external thought leader.
• Be influential as an external thought leader in the area of statistics by being highly connected and driving the changes at the industry level.
• Ensure that activities are performed according to established guidelines, best practices, and in compliance with all laws and regulations.
• Drive continuous improvement of key performance metrics.
• Drive shared learning and process expertise between teams within the organization.

People Management and Development (not applicable for individual contributors)

• Ensure all direct reports have a Performance Management (PM) and Development plan in place.
• Conduct mid-year and final PM reviews to evaluate performance, business results, and impact.
• Provide appropriate input on consensus evaluation for merit increase and promotion activities.
• Contribute to the development of direct reports through administrative direction, coaching, mentoring, and timely feedback.
• Appropriately manage the workload of direct reports.
• Provide input on employee development, talent assessment, and succession planning activities.
• Encourage appropriate rewards for deserving individual/group performance and results.
• Ensure all direct reports follow company policies, procedures, and regulations.
• Recruit, develop, and retain a scientific and operationally capable workforce skilled and knowledgeable in Statistics, Data & Analytics.
• Effectively create and manage an agile organization that continuously meets the needs of a changing portfolio.
• Build an organizational culture that fosters inclusion and innovation.
• Develop staff who demonstrate expertise in drug development, therapeutic area science, project management and cross-functional leadership.
• Develop an organizational talent base that demonstrates judgment-based decision making, and provides leadership in clinical delivery.

At Lilly, caring is not only what we do for patients, it is how we work. We believe the people who dedicate themselves to making medicines better deserve an environment that makes their lives better too, one where they are supported, respected, and given the space to do their best work. This is not just a policy; it is who we are.

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