Senior Director, Product Marketing

Company Description

Guardant Health is a leading precision oncology company focused on helping conquer cancer globally through use of its proprietary blood tests, vast data sets and advanced analytics. Its Guardant Health Oncology Platform is designed to leverage its capabilities in technology, clinical development, regulatory and reimbursement to drive commercial adoption, improve patient clinical outcomes and lower healthcare costs.  In pursuit of its goal to manage cancer across all stages of the disease, Guardant Health has launched multiple liquid biopsy-based tests, Guardant360, Guardant 360 CDx and GuardantOMNI, for advanced stage cancer patients, and GuardantReveal for early stage cancer patients.

Job Description

The Senior Director, Oncology Marketing Strategy and Operations will be a key leader in the marketing organization who leads the development of the Oncology yearly commercial business plan, long range planning and will help support the Product Team with lifecycle development. This individual’s team will also be responsible for Advisory Boards, Opinion Leader Planning, Competitive Intelligence, Customer Experience, and Key Accounts marketing support.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Lead the development of the Guardant Oncology portfolio strategy
• Bring strong customer insights and clinical knowledge to the Guardant Health product development and med affairs teams to support the lifecycle development of Guardant360, Guardant Response, Guardant Reveal and TissueNext
• Provide leadership across the marketing organization, including direct management of members of the Strategy Marketing team.
• Provide leadership for the opinion leadership efforts, advisory board execution, competitive intelligence, and overall team budget management.
• Collaborate with commercial partners such as the Key Customer Team, Reimbursement Teams, Commercial Analytics, and Promotions team to support their efforts with the Guardant Oncology portfolio.
• Partner effectively with key cross-functional partners, including Product, Compliance, Medical Affairs, and Finance.
• Organize and collaborate with the Global Commercial team, including Europe and Asia.

Qualifications

• 8-10 years of Diagnostic or Pharmaceutical marketing experience necessary
• Oncology and specialty diagnostic experience is critical
• BS/BA Degree in related discipline. Advanced degree preferred (PhD, MBA)
• A track record of product launch and/or portfolio (multiple products) management experience
• Strong direct management and cross-functional team leadership experience
• Strong business acumen, analytics, and communication skills that translate to effective strategic plans and commercial alignment
• Experience with and exemplary understanding of all aspects of oncology diagnostic development and brand strategy
• Demonstrated track record of achievement and of influencing business outcomes across diverse functional boundaries with and without direct reporting relationships
• Ability to work effectively and collaboratively in a team-based environment and partner with external/internal stakeholders

Additional Information

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. We have found aligning our scheduled in-office days allows our teams to do the best work and creates the focused thinking time our innovative work requires. At Guardant, our work model has created flexibility for better work-life balance while keeping teams connected to advance our science for our patients.

Covid Vaccination Policy:  Starting January 7, 2022, Guardant Health will require all employees to be fully vaccinated to either (a) establish that they have been fully vaccinated against COVID-19; or (b) request and obtain an approved exemption from Guardant’s COVID-19 U.S. Vaccination Policy as a reasonable accommodation, as consistent with applicable laws.  An employee is considered fully vaccinated against COVID-19 two weeks after receiving the second dose of a two-dose vaccine or one dose of a single-dose vaccination. Acceptable vaccines are approved or under emergency use authorization by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and/or the World Health Organization (WHO). In addition, fully-vaccinated employees will be required to maintain their fully-vaccinated status under this policy by obtaining, if applicable, any FDA-approved boosters.

The base salary range for this full-time position is $216,000 to $292,000 USD. The range does not include be