Role OverviewThe Senior Director, RWD Operations Lead drives the strategy, execution, innovation, and continuous improvement of Lilly's real-world data ecosystem across therapeutic areas and enterprise data assets. This role ensures that RWD pipelines and processes are built, validated, and governed so that raw RWD are systematically evaluated, transformed, standardized, operationalized, and governed into reusable, AI-ready assets that accelerate evidence generation at scale.
What You Will Do
Primary responsibilities include leading technical and data integrity evaluation of raw RWD, collaborating with RWD architect(s) and engineer(s) to translate scientific needs and intent into enterprise RWD infrastructure strategy and specifications, accelerating evidence generation by standardizing and transforming raw data into reusable, analysis-ready assets across different business units, and developing, executing, documenting quality-control frameworks that qualify data completeness and ensure consistent, reliable RWD operations at scale.
Why It Might Be a Fit
This role requires a strong analytical, organizational, and communication skills, a strategic thinker at enterprise level, and the ability to collaborate with RWD architect, engineer, and strategy roles. The ideal candidate will have experience driving alignment and conflict resolution across technical and scientific teams, supporting organizational change, and building operational frameworks.
Requirements
- Masters degree (MS, MPH, PharmD, PhD) in a quantitative, data, or health-related field
- Minimum of 3 years of RWD hands-on experience with: Healthcare data structures (claims, EHR, and multi-modal RWD, including linked clinical-genomic/omics datasets)
- Minimum of 3 years experience of RWD Healthcare coding systems: ICD-10, CPT, NDC, LOINC, RxNorm
- Proficiency in SQL, R, and R-Shiny, including dashboarding and operational tool development
- Familiarity with HEOR, medical, and statistical research workflows, including specification development, data quality assessment, study execution
- Minimum of 2 years of direct people management experience, including leading, coaching, and developing team members
Benefits
- Comprehensive benefit program
- Company bonus
- 401(k) plan
- Pension
- Vacation benefits
- 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
- Time off and leave of absence benefits
- Well-being benefits (e.g., employee assistance program, fitness benefits, and employee clubs and activities)
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