Senior Director, National Field Medical Affairs, Oncology

Company Description

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.

Job Description

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, National Field Medical Affairs, Oncology 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 including to create the long-term vision and strategic / tactical plan for regions and individual territories.

The Senior Director, National Field Medical Affairs, Oncology 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, National Field Medical Affairs, Oncology also serves as a Strategic Priority Owner of other Field Medical and broader guardant health initiatives.

Key Accountabilities

• 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.
• 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
• 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
• 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.
• High level of followership through demonstrated success as the Senior Director, National Field Medical Affairs, Oncology with a strong work ethic, pushing self and team to go above and beyond in looking for opportunities to enhance Field Medical
• 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.
• 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

• 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.
• 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 perspectiv