Clinical Data Associate

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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

$63,000 - $140,800

At Lilly, we serve an extraordinary purpose. For more than 140 years, we have worked tirelessly to discover medicines that make life better. These discoveries start in Lilly Research Laboratories, where our scientists work to create new medicines that will help solve our world’s greatest health challenges.

Purpose

This role is responsible for trial level clinical data strategy including database structure, content and meaning, acquisition, storage, retrieval, interchange, delivery and representation. This requires an in depth understanding of data collection, data flow management, data quality, data technology, dataset delivery, archiving and data standards. This role will collaborate with key study partners to define, implement, and deliver clinical data management packages. This role is responsible for providing trial leadership and ownership for a particular trial, set of trials, or programs.

Primary Responsibilities

Portfolio Strategy, Planning and Delivery

• Define Lilly business requirements for the study/program for vendors to deliver
• Ensure that data management timeline and results are delivered to scope, cost, and time objectives
• Perform project monitoring and quality oversight of sourcing providers for end-to-end data management activities – from study set up through trial execution through dataset delivery
• Ensure vendor performance for the program-level flow of data, including across niche vendors and niche data sources (pharmacokinetic, immunogenicity, biomarker)
• Drives data flow design through consultation, review, and approval of vendor work. Ensures the data flow design is aligned with the project hypothesis
• Approve key outputs and results (i.e. Data Quality Delivery Plan, Data lock Plan, Project Plan, database, and observed datasets)
• Define and approve data quality and submission outputs and results
  
  
  

Project Management

• Ensure that data acquisition, database design, and observed dataset requirements are reflective of specific protocol objectives
• Specifies the data collection tools and technology platforms for the trial/program
• Drive standards decisions, implementation and compliance for the study/program
• Help create scope scenarios and negotiate outcomes with study teams while taking into account the cost and value of scenarios
• Facilitate/assimilate integration of disparate data sources into datasets for decision making
• Use therapeutic knowledge and possess a deep understanding of the technology used to review data to ensure database deliverables are consistent and accurate
• Effectively apply knowledge of applicable internal, external and regulatory requirements/expectations (MQA, CSQ, MHRA, FDA, ICH, GCP, PhRMA, Privacy knowledge, etc.) to data deliverables
  
  
  

Communication

• Act as primary communication point for all data management activities related to a clinical study.
• Report out status of data management milestones and data quality.
• Partner with external data vendors: understand specifications to import multiple types of data, work with technical groups to ensure timely loads of external data sets into the sponsor's database.
• Demonstrate excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to represent the Data and Analytics organization and influence stakeholders to drive data-driven decisions.
• Partner with cross-functional team members to ensure trial success through robust oversight/review.
  
  
  

Process Improvement

• Continually seek and implement means of improving processes to reduce cycle time and decrease work effort
• Represent data sciences’ processes in multi-functional initiatives.
• Actively engage in shared learning across the Data and Analytics organization.
• Work with partners to increase vendor/partner efficiencies
  
  
  

Minimum Qualification Requirements

• Master’s degree in a scientific field such as Informatics/Analytics, Life Sciences, Statistics, Information Technology, Epidemiology, Computer Sciences (or Bachelor’s degree plus 5 or more years of experience in clinical data management or areas that closely intersect with clinical data management e.g., statistics, data analytics, information technology, health outcomes, etc...)
• Qualified candidates must be legally authorized to be employed in the United States. Lilly does not anticipate providing sponsorship for employment visa status (e.g., H-1B or TN status) for this employment position
  
  
  

Other Information/Additional Preferences

• Demonstrated ability to set and implement plans to improve complex clinical data management processes and capabilities
• Demonstrated ability to effectively partner/influence a remote team and drive a technical project to deliver results
• Experience with application of clinical data management skills such as data flow, data quality & integrity, data interchange, data mining, and data representation principles
• Demonstrated ability to lead development of creative data solutions to address clinical development challenges
• Passionate about improving technological solutions using new technologies
• Society of Clinical Data Management certification
• Working knowledge of programming languages & Industry tools such as Tableau, PowerBI, Python, SAS, ‘R’ and Shiny for reporting, metrics and visualizations along with P-SQL, T-SQL for DBMS.
• Experience with the following:
• Articulating the flow of data (structure and format) from patient to analysis and apply this knowledge to data solutions
• Utilization of clinical/drug development knowledge and an ability to collaborate closely effectively with study team members (i.e. Statistics, PK, Operations, Medical)
• Strong therapeutic/scientific knowledge in the field of research
• Knowledge of medical terminology
• Domestic and International travel may be required
• Ability to balance multiple activities, prioritize and manage ambiguity
• Demonstrated exemplary teamwork/interpersonal skills
• Demonstrated problem solving, attention to detail and result oriented behaviors in a fast-paced environment.
  
  
  

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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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