Senior Director, National Field Medical Affairs, Oncology

Senior Director, National Field Medical Affairs, Oncology

• Full-time

Guardant Health is a leading precision oncology company focused on helping conquer cancer globally through use of its proprietary tests, vast data sets and advanced analytics. The Guardant Health oncology platform leverages capabilities to drive commercial adoption, improve patient clinical outcomes and lower healthcare costs across all stages of the cancer care continuum. Guardant Health has commercially launched Guardant360, Guardant360 CDx, Guardant360 TissueNext, Guardant360 Response, and GuardantOMNI tests for advanced stage cancer patients, and Guardant Reveal for early-stage cancer patients. The Guardant Health screening portfolio, including the Shield test, aims to address the needs of individuals eligible for cancer screening.

The Senior Director, National Field Medical Affairs, Oncology, is responsible for creating, leading, and inspiring a large national Clinical Science Liaison and Genomic Science Liaison teams, focused on enhancing patient outcomes through improved customer engagement. The Senior Director will establish the long-term vision, strategy, plans, objectives and infrastructure across the collective field medical teams. They will form strategic partnerships with Senior Leaders across the organization to create the long-term vision and strategic/tactical plan for regions and individual territories.

The Senior Director plays a crucial role in facilitating strong field oncology relationships across the healthcare landscape with external scientific, medical, and patient communities, and is expected to build relationships with key customers through expert peer-to-peer engagements. By maintaining a high-level understanding of customer needs across their network’s therapeutic areas at a national level, they are expected to understand and evaluate the organization’s opportunities and constraints to advance the care continuum and the delivery of healthcare through broad clinical and population health research opportunities and build capabilities with an enterprise mindset.

In addition to leading and supporting the Field Medical teams, the Senior Director also serves as a Strategic Priority Owner of other Field Medical and broader Guardant Health initiatives.

Key Accountabilities

1. Create, lead and set vision, objectives, and goals for the national Field Medical Oncology team in alignment with business needs, in response to the changing healthcare landscape and customer needs, in order to increase customer satisfaction and improve outcomes.
2. Build, inspire, and lead through ambiguity and significant change, as well as with and without specific authority, the Field Medical Oncology team to support the end to end customer experience across regions; identify the right talent as well as provide strategic professional development, mentorship and coaching to facilitate the evolution of the Field Medical team.
3. Maintain effective and regular two-way communication with Sales, Marketing and Medical team partners to create a continuous feedback loop of information and insights to interpret and co-create the medical strategy.
4. Inspire and lead the Field Medical, Oncology team to ensure operation at full potential, consistent delivery above and beyond for customers, patients, and healthcare stakeholders while leveraging Guardant Health capabilities.
5. Work closely with the Medical Affairs leadership to align medical strategies and priorities to be pulled through in the field. Identify resources and tools needed to empower the Field Medical Oncology team to deliver all aspects related to scientific exchange on clinical and Health Economics Outcomes Research data across the entire healthcare landscape.
6. Drive innovation and cross-pollination across GH and Development leadership as a trusted partner to address the evolving clinical data and research needs of HCPs, health systems, researchers, patient groups and other key influencers throughout the healthcare landscape.

Key Activities & Responsibilities

1. Create, lead and set vision, objectives, and goals for the Field Medical Oncology team in alignment with Medical Affairs leadership; collaborate across GH national field leaders to ensure consistency and enterprise thinking in strategic priorities.
2. Co-create medical strategy with Marketing, Product and Tech Development to ensure that field-based decisions are aligned with Core Team priorities and needs, and that field medical perspective is embedded in key organizational decisions.
3. Represent the customer voice across Oncology and co-create customer centric solutions with peers in the Medical Affairs leadership to ensure that customer insights are prioritized in network objectives and goals.
4. Proactively communicate and share customer needs, insights and knowledge to senior leadership in order to identify opportunities for collaboration and shape future organization strategies.
5. Build, cultivate and leverage relationships with top tier national thought leaders across the oncology medical and managed care communities; as a field leader, represent the GH voice at national conferences and in executive exchange engagements.
6. Bring innovation and energy as a core member of the Medical Affairs leadership and support VP of Medical Affairs, Oncology in identifying key deliverables, insights, and metrics that demonstrate the value of the Field Medical Oncology organization.
7. Foster team spirit of cross-functional collaboration, enterprise mindset thinking and an ongoing awareness of GH objectives and strategy to deliver on meeting customer needs.
8. Serve as a player/coach to Field Medical Directors and individual contributors through mentorship and acting as an inspirational role model.
9. Collaborate on content and communication of scientific communication with field that includes both clinical and O&E data, and work projects.
10. Lead organizational initiatives and identify individuals to serve on core teams as specific business needs arise.

Qualifications:

1. Advanced clinical science degree required (MD, PharmD, MsRPH, PhD, MSN, NP, PA, etc.)
2. 15+ years related work experience strongly preferred (managed care/health plan, hospital administration, clinical pathway or formulary decision maker, industry experience, etc.) with extensive experience successfully leading and managing field medical or a customer facing team.
3. Prior experience as a field medical liaison is preferred.
4. Strong understanding of healthcare, legal and regulatory landscape and customer (health systems, payers, providers, etc.) required.
5. Impressive, inspiring and visionary leadership ability with customer-first focus.
6. Strong communication and effective collaboration skills to work across an extremely matrixed stakeholder organization.
7. Embraces an agile mindset to develop necessary processes to get things done.
8. Demonstrated experience with strategic planning, prioritizing and management of high-level initiatives and projects; building and leading teams; coaching and developing others.
9. Strong negotiation skills and ability to influence without authority; excellent problem solving and decision-making skills.
10. Demonstrated evidence of successfully achieving results, delivering high performance and managing a high functioning team of people managers.
11. Ongoing investment in developing self and others to enable others to achieve their potential.
12. Strong work ethic and advancement mindset.
13. Business travel by air or car is required for regular internal and customer facing meetings. Both national and international travel may be required.
14. Role is home office based.
15. May require up to 70% of travel.

Hybrid Work Model: At Guardant Health, we have defined days for in-person/onsite collaboration and work-from-home days for individual-focused time. All U.S. employees who live within 50 miles of a Guardant facility will be required to be onsite on Mondays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays.

The US base salary range for this full-time position is $234,600 to $316,700. The range does not include benefits, and if applicable, bonus, commission, or equity.

Guardant Health is committed to providing reasonable accommodations in our hiring processes for candidates with disabilities, long-term conditions, mental health conditions, or sincerely held religious beliefs. If you need support, please reach out to Peopleteam@guardanthealth.com.

Guardant Health is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.

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