Position SummaryThe Solution Manager provides strategic leadership across a portfolio of commercial, third-party, and internally built software solutions supporting Clinical Data Management, operating with full autonomy across vendor strategy, solution architecture guidance, stakeholder alignment, and enterprise configuration governance. At the P4 level, the role makes decisions that impact the function, drives solutions across the data management area, and influences complex technical and business issues. It holds Product Owner accountability for internally built capabilities-integrations, APIs, RPA, agentic workflows, agents, and data products-while maintaining vendor governance for commercial platforms. Consistent with Lilly's technology direction, the role is technically hands-on and deeply AI-skilled, driving responsible adoption of AI and agentic capabilities across the data management ecosystem.
Key Responsibilities - Own portfolio strategy and lifecycle for Clinical Data Management across commercial platforms and internally built capabilities, ensuring sustained business value.
- Serve as accountable Product Owner for internally built capabilities, owning backlog, prioritization, sprint ceremonies, and stakeholder demos, with working knowledge of the underlying technologies.
- Lead vendor and platform strategy, including make-vs.-buy decisions, QBR governance, vendor rationalization, and contract strategy with procurement and legal.
- Drive responsible adoption of AI, agentic workflows, and intelligent automation, ensuring readiness, compliance, and measurable impact.
- Define and govern configuration and release management-platform setup, environment standards, promotion controls, CI/CD, deployment governance, and rollback-combining hands-on configuration with deep technical expertise.
- Drive Agile delivery with engineering and platform teams to ship high-value data capabilities on time and at quality.
- Lead build-vs.-configure-vs.-buy decisions, weighing extensibility, integration feasibility, and total cost of ownership.
- Ensure compliance for regulated solutions, including GxP validation strategy, data integrity, quality planning, and change control.
- Establish performance and value frameworks-KPIs, adoption metrics, and executive-level reporting.
- Influence complex regulatory, business, and technical issues and represent solution management in governance forums.
Basic Qualifications - High School Diploma or Equivalent..
- Experience in clinical development, Good Clinical Practice (GCP), or a regulated (GxP) environment within pharmaceutical, biotech, or healthcare, including validation and change control processes.
- Experience in solution, product, or platform management with accountability for complex portfolios spanning commercial and internally built capabilities.
- Proven ownership of solution lifecycle and Agile/SAFe delivery with Product Owner responsibilities (backlog, prioritization, acceptance criteria, demos).
- Hands-on experience leveraging AI in day-to-day delivery, including evaluating and applying AI/ML and agentic capabilities.
- Technical depth in enterprise data platforms and integration technologies, including hands-on configuration and the ability to guide engineering teams.
- Experience defining and executing vendor strategy, including make-vs.-buy and ongoing governance.
- Experience establishing configuration and release management, including environment governance and CI/CD alignment.
- Strong executive stakeholder management and the ability to represent technology in governance forums.
Preferred Qualifications - Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Life Sciences, Business, or a related field.
- Familiarity with clinical data management platforms and their configuration, extensibility, and integration patterns.
- Hands-on experience with internally built capabilities-APIs, integrations, RPA, agentic workflows, agents, and data products.
- Proficiency with DevOps and configuration tooling such as Azure DevOps or GitLab.
- Understanding of modern architecture patterns-cloud, API management, event-driven, and SaaS/PaaS models.
- Relevant certifications (SAFe, Product Management, Cloud, or AI/ML).
Actual compensation will depend on a candidate's education, experience, skills, and geographic location. The anticipated wage for this position is
$124,500 - $182,600
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).Lilly reserves the right to amend, modify, or terminate its compensation and benefit programs in its sole discretion and Lilly's compensation practices and guidelines will apply regarding the details of any promotion or transfer of Lilly employees.
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