Director - Real World Data (RWD) Strategy - Immunology

About the role

The Director, RWD Strategy serves as Lilly's enterprise champion for RWD in Immunology, translating the rapidly evolving external data landscape into a coherent, high-impact internal strategy that accelerates drug development, strengthens regulatory submissions, and maximizes the scientific and commercial return on Lilly's RWD investments.

Responsibilities

• Create a systematic framework for quantifying the value delivered by RWD investments — in terms of regulatory impact, commercial value, publications, clinical development acceleration, or avoided costs.
• Define and track enterprise RWD performance KPIs to measure impact, improve decision-making, and optimize RWD investments.
• Maintain a deep understanding of external landscape for RWD, knowledge of Lilly licensed RWD, and manage the inventory of RWD.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with key Lilly stakeholders to identify data gaps, redundancies and opportunities where RWD can inform decision making to avoid redundancy and improve ROI.
• Lead the identification, evaluation, acquisition and cross-BU coordination of fit-for-purpose, high-value Immunology RWD sources (e.g., Pharmetrics, Truveta), aligned with scientific and business needs that match RWD sources to research questions.
• Evaluate and operationalize federated learning partnerships, synthetic data use cases, and privacy-enhancing computation methods, in collaboration with Tech@Lilly and external data partners.
• Lead the development, communication, and adherence to RWD health information standards, tools and technology and processes for RWE generation, with a particular focus on leveraging RWD/E in regulatory decision.
• Develop strategy for integrating SDOH, patient-reported outcomes, digital/wearable biomarker, imaging, -omics data into Lilly's RWD infrastructure, with particular attention to health equity and diverse population representation in evidence generation.
• Drive greater value to the portfolio by delivering innovative RWD solutions (e.g. new applications of RWD), evaluating non-traditional sources of RWD and enabling and applying new RWD capabilities (e.g. tokenization of data).
• Operationalize structured governance for RWD investments, participating in or supporting the RWD Steering Committee and other cross-functional decision-right structures.
• Ensure teams can appropriately interpret source capabilities, limitations, and fit-for-purpose considerations.

Qualifications

• Advanced degree (PharmD, MD, PhD, MS, MSN, MPH) in a quantitative or health related field
• Extensive experience (5+ years) working hands on with a wide range of RWD sources including selecting, evaluating or using RWD sources and healthcare data structure (claims, EMR, registry, multi-modal RWD – RNA, DNA, proteomics, imaging).
• Experience and knowledge with key applications of RWD partners, tools (e.g. tokenization, regulatory use cases, etc) and procurement processes to identify and facilitate generation of bespoke unique to Lilly RWD sets (e.g., Truveta + Lilly Direct data – GiftHealth).
• Demonstrated knowledge of drug development across the product lifecycle, commercial awareness, business acumen, and customer focus.
• Previous experience with broad and deep range of RWD partners and tools including matching sources to research questions across therapeutic areas and knowledge of procurement and business value to present ROI to teams.
• Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills.
• Ability to navigate assessment and optimal usage of RWD through AI.
• Experience developing or executing global or enterprise RWD strategy.

Skills & Preferences

• Demonstrated ability to influence decision-making and network effectively to achieve cross-functional alignment.
• Strong analytic skills (e.g. ability to program in SAS, R, Python, etc).
• Experience in delivering innovative capabilities.
• Demonstrate leadership skills in influencing stakeholders to resolve conflicts.
• Strong comprehension and communication skills, both written and verbal.

Pay

$165,000 - $316,800

Schedule

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).