Senior Associate/Associate, Trial Capabilities – Global Budget Design

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Purpose:

Eli Lilly Cork is made up of a talented diverse team of over 2000 employees across 60 nationalities who deliver innovative solutions that add value across a variety of Business Service functions including Finance, Information Technology, Medical, Clinical Trials and more. Eli Lilly Cork offers a premium workspace across our campus in Little Island, complete with flexible hybrid working options, healthcare, pension and life assurance benefits, subsidised canteen, onsite gym, travel subsidies and on-site parking. Inhouse People Development services, Educational Assistance, and our ‘Live Your BEST Life’

wellbeing initiatives are just some of the holistic benefits that enhance the career experience for our colleagues.

Eli Lilly Cork is committed to diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI). We cater for all dimensions ensuring inclusion of all ethnicities, nationalities, cultural backgrounds, generations, sexuality, visible and invisible disabilities and gender, with four pillars: EnAble, embRACE, LGBTQ+ & Ally and GIN-Gender Inclusion Network. EnAble, our pillar for people with disabilities and those that care for them, partners with the Access Lilly initiative to make our physical and digital environment accessible and inclusive for all. Together they are committed to promoting awareness to create a disability confident culture both at Eli Lilly Cork and beyond.

Come join our team - Be Creative, Be an Innovator, and most of all, Be Yourself!

Come join our team - Be Creative, Be an Innovator, and most of all, Be Yourself!

 “ The mission of the Trial Capabilities Centre Business Operations group is to provide clinical trial site budget and contract negotiations, purchase order creation, and payment support for clinical trial and medical research consulting agreements with institutions, investigators, and consultants located globally.  Our vision is to successfully develop clinical trial and medical research agreements through effective negotiations, timely execution, and accurate payments by way of process optimization while ensuring compliance with Lilly’s policies.

The Senior Associate/Associate – Trial Capabilities – Global Budget Design will provide technical, project and operational expertise to support clinical trial budget creation.

This exciting opportunity will be a linked partnership with our team in the US to support key deliverables related to Global and Country Level investigator grants budgets, as well as initiatives that enable continuous improvement with our key business partners including but not limited to Clinical Development and Design, Trial Capabilities, and the Project Management Organization. You will support robust efforts to inform clinical trial costing and forecasting, and share your operational expertise to support Knowledge Management, Metrics and KPIs, and analytics support to our CTDC- Data Insights team.

The role will report to the Senior Manager Trial Capabilities – Global Budget Design, based in Cork, Ireland. 

Primary Responsibilities:  This job description is intended to provide a general overview of the job requirements at the time it was prepared.  The job requirements of any position may change over time and may include additional responsibilities not specifically described in the job description.  Consult with your supervision regarding your actual job responsibilities and any related duties that may be required for the position.

• Deliver and release of all pertinent documentation including but not limited to the Final Global Target Budget and Country Budgets. Review of Authority to Spend (ATS) documentation for each Investigator Grant Budget
• Adhere to required timeframes for development of GTIB’s and escalate any issues which prevent timeframes from being met.
• Provide operational and tactical support for the Investigator Grants and if required the Clinical Costing and Forecasting Teams
• Maintain if required key updates to supporting documentation, training, tools, and templates used in Budgeting procedures.
• Support efforts related to the transformation of Investigator Grants budget development
• Support completeness of budgets including assumptions documents and cost drivers.
• Collaborate with business partners in a variety of functions to understand costs and significant drivers of value and change as well as diagnose and troubleshoot issues related to systems and reports.
• Maintain departmental collaboration sites to ensure easy transfer of trials between budget associates.
  • Support special projects as needed including those which are functional and cross-functional in nature as required.
  • Actively participate in and ensure integrated success of functional objectives.
  • Seek opportunities to capture and share learning with peers and functions
  • Help with the establishment of metrics and data relating to Investigator Grant Budgets to gain insights and innovations within the TC function
  • Raise issues, escalate concerns, and propose solutions as appropriate

Minimum Qualification Requirements: 

• Bachelors Degree with 3-5 years Industry Experience, preferably in Clinical development and/or Project Management; or Associate Degree with 5-10 years Industry Experience, preferably in Clinical development and/or project management
• Strong acumen in understanding how to leverage data to drive critical decisions
• General understanding of trial design and how it relates to Budgets, Costing and Forecasting
• Ability to build strong relationships, and keenly provide insights on continuous improvement  
• Ability to anticipate and recognize issues, diagnose root causes, and support work intended to foster an environment of continuous learning and improvement
• Ability to leverage critical thinking and problem solving skills to both sustain strong relationships with key business partners and for the identification and delivery of process improvements and identify suggested process improvements
• Demonstrated ability to communicate effectively within and across work groups.
• Strong problem-solving skills. Able to anticipate and recognize real issues, diagnose root causes, validate/confirm, and propose creative alternatives.
• Demonstrated ability to be flexible with work assignments.
• Demonstrated ability to learn quickly and achieve new outcomes as directed.

Other Information/Additional Preferences:  

• Clinical trial operational experience across Therapeutic Areas and Phases
• Preferred experience: Minimum of 1-3 years experience working with drug development costs, and specifically Clinical development

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