Director - Real World Data (RWD) Strategy - Immunology

Job Summary

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.

Key Responsibilities

• Create and drive the strategic vision for Immunology RWD utilization across the product lifecycle, from early development through post-marketing and connecting opportunities across functions for maximizing RWD use for patient and Lilly impact.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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).
• Exercise broad knowledge of data partners, procurement pathways, and business value to guide investment decisions.
• Operationalize structured governance for RWD investments, participating in or supporting the RWD Steering Committee and other cross-functional decision-right structures.
• Facilitate RWD trainings and learning sessions to increase RWD literacy and speed to insights.
• Obtain all necessary RWD source documentation prior to contract signage.
• Maintain current RWD information in the RWE business process and knowledge management solution, Pangaea and Data Marketplace.
• Continually seek and implement means of improving processes to reduce cycle time and decrease work effort to maximize the return of the investment (i.e., technology purchases, data strategies, etc.) of the RWE health information assets/domains managed.

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
• Experience in delivering innovative capabilities
• Strong comprehension and communication skills, both written and verbal

Additional 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
• Leadership skills in influencing stakeholders to resolve conflicts