Associate Director - DOCTA Operations and Strategy

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The Diabetes, Obesity and Complications Therapeutic Area (DOCTA), is focused on the discovery and early phase clinical development of biologic, small molecule, oligonucleotide, and cell therapies for the treatment of diabetes, obesity, cardiovascular disease and associated metabolic disorders. DOCTA Operations team is seeking someone with a scientific research background and experience in the leadership of internal and external research activities to help achieve our research goals. The successful candidate will lead the establishment of the structural and scientific platforms the team needs to discover and develop therapeutic approaches to treat metabolic diseases. This will be a cross-therapeutic area role encompassing opportunities to impact science in the Boston team as well as in Indianapolis or other areas.

Do you have a background in scientific research principles in a pharmaceutical setting? Are you familiar with the requirements of the drug development process? If so, apply today to join the Lilly team!

Responsibilities:

• Critical thinking and planning related to establishment and/or refinement of workflows and team-based approaches for existing and emerging technologies. Directly lead in the scientific and strategic enablement and maintenance of lab-based and other operational practices to facilitate effective project team and discovery initiatives across DOCTA locations (e.g. Indianapolis, Boston, etc).
• Contribute to the build and maintenance of an innovative laboratory in Boston, including operational support of in vivo lab space.
• Help establish and maintain appropriate workflows suitable to the generation and analysis of next-generation sequencing approaches, improving the contributions of multiple internal partners, core sequencing capabilities and bioinformatics teams.
• Significantly contribute to the successful management and execution of research strategies including external collaborations and/or business development opportunities. This includes influencing internal resource discussions and planning to support the goals of the collaborations and positively impact our pipeline.
• Supervise in vivo vendor relationships across DOCTA teams and support scientists and team in resolving issues with vendors.
• Contribute to the generation of short- and long-term strategic goals, defining successful outcomes and ensuring the effective growth of the DOCTA organization to meet these goals.
• Evaluate and champion external or internal opportunities across DOCTA to ensure department goals are appropriately supported and resourced internally.

Minimum Requirements:

Bachelor’s degree in health-related biology or closely related scientific field with 8 years of laboratory research experience OR Master’s degree with 5 research experience in a related area.

Additional Skills/Preferences:

• Experience with the drug development process, demonstrated contributions either at preclinical or clinical stage, that highlights comprehension of key drivers of drug development.
• Experience in the area of metabolic disease (obesity, diabetes, inflammatory diseases, cardiovascular disease, etc.) is a plus.
• Excellent interpersonal and influence skills including ability to provide advisership and develop teamwork between team members with diverse interpersonal styles, and appropriately network across a wide variety of functional components and/or external vendors/partners.
• Excellent business insight including the ability to use business principles within the team while maintaining a corporate view of the portfolio.
• Demonstrated experience using technologies and workflows for clear objectives, particularly large data efforts such as transcriptomics approaches, high throughput or genetic screening, systems biology approaches, etc. are highly advantageous.

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