Sr Director, Medical Affairs – AMR Hereditary Disease

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Position Summary

Illumina, Inc. is seeking a board-certified clinical laboratory molecular geneticist with extensive leadership experience in hereditary disease screening and diagnostic genetic testing. This leadership position is part of the Global Medical Affair organization, reporting to the VP of Global Medical Affairs at Illumina. This role will have the overall responsibility for leading the development and execution of medical affairs strategy in the Americas (AMR) in close coordination with commercial goals of the company. The leader in this role will represent Medical Affairs within cross-functional teams focused on AMR hereditary disease and reproductive genetics, working closely with Commercial, Business Development, Pharma, R&D, Product marketing, Regulatory, Bioinformatics, Assay Development, and Quality teams. This position is also responsible for research and evidence generation in hereditary disease to drive broader adoption of genomics in healthcare, supporting commercial team strategies with medical affairs resources, providing scientific education on hereditary disease genomics, and influencing product development for hereditary disease genomics.

The ideal candidate has held leadership positions at clinical genomics laboratories utilizing next-generation sequencing technologies for hereditary disease screening or diagnostics. S/he has a strong background in molecular and cytogenetic methods used for hereditary disease genetic screening and diagnostics, including for reproductive carrier screening, non-invasive prenatal screening, prenatal diagnostic genetic testing, congenital genetic disorders, early-onset and late-onset neurological genetic disorders, hereditary cancer, cardiovascular disorders, metabolic disorders, rare disease, and pharmacogenetics. The candidate must have excellent understanding of the trends in professional practice in medical genetics in the United States and a wide network of connections with key opinion leaders. The candidate must have demonstrably intimate understanding of the trends in next-generation sequencing, clinical laboratory practices and their regulatory oversight, and technologies broadly deployed in hereditary disease genetic screening and diagnostics. The candidate must have demonstrated leadership in medical genetics research and publications that have contributed to advancing clinical management of individuals with hereditary disease.

Position Responsibilities

• Represent medical affairs by providing leadership and clinical expertise in interactions with Illumina’s sales and marketing, business development and other commercial functional groups, as needed.
• Actively participate in the product development process in R&D to guide specifications for Illumina’s RUO and IVD products. Work closely with Marketing, Marketing Development, Assay/Product Development as well as product life cycle team to support the execution of the product launch strategy, and ensure internal and external launch readiness 
• Lead the development of AMR medical affairs strategies for evidence generation and scientific communication for hereditary disease diagnostic genetic testing, reproductive genetic screening, newborn sequencing, and broad population screening
• Together with the Head of Strategic Clinical Research in Global Medical Affairs, support development and and execution of a comprehensive portfolio of high-caliber medical collaborative research in hereditary disease, reproductive genetics, population screening, and other areas of germline medical genetics
• Collaborate with Market Access to strategize and develop the necessary evidence to improve reimbursement for hereditary disease genomics
• Represent medical affairs by providing leadership and clinical expertise in interactions with pharma/biotech partners
• Lead the development of scientific and medical education content and in-house training for the medical affairs team and other appropriate staff as required, and ensure suitability of training content for clinical specialists in collaboration with Marketing and other relevant internal stakeholders 
• Develop best practices and buil