Associate Director, Commercial Analytics and Insights

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. 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 launched liquid biopsy-based Guardant360®, Guardant360 CDx and GuardantOMNI® tests for advanced stage cancer patients. These tests fuel development of its LUNAR program, which aims to address the needs of early stage cancer patients with neoadjuvant and adjuvant treatment selection, cancer survivors with surveillance, asymptomatic individuals eligible for cancer screening and individuals at a higher risk for developing cancer with early detection.

Job Description

The Associate Director, Commercial Analytics and Insights, will be a key member of the Oncology market analytics team that serves the US Clinical Oncology commercial teams.  This individual will be responsible for delivering data insights and advanced analytics for Guardant’s US Oncology business, partnering with others on the team to enhance and automate analytics deliverables, and serving as the trusted advisor to the US Commercial Team and cross-functional partners.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Working seamlessly with cross-functional subject matter experts to frame business questions, triangulate multiple data sources, and develop integrated information delivery solutions with rigor and integrity
• Provide leadership in all phases of forecasting from planning through implementation and delivery; elevate and automate the forecasting methodology
• Direct continuous improvement of data management, modeling, and business analysis capabilities; demonstrate how elevated analytics capabilities directly contribute to the growth and optimization of Guardant’s business
• Participate in the development of commercial data strategy and roadmap; continuously refine, automate, and simplify analytics products to support commercial effectiveness and decision-making
• Proactively identify opportunities and threats, leveraging data and business context to support partners across the company
• Evolve analytical platforms, tools, and methods; responsively provide high-quality solutions and answers to ad-hoc requests

Qualifications

• 8+ years of relevant experience in commercial insights, advanced analytics, data strategy, and general healthcare analytics
• Oncology or specialty diagnostics experience would be helpful
• Bachelor’s degree (BA/BS) in a quantitative discipline.  Advanced degree preferred (Ph.D.,  BA)
• Coding experience in Excel, SQL, Python, R, Tableau, etc. preferred
• Vision and capability to challenge the status quo; proven record of elevating an analytics function and leading without authority
• Excellent attention to quality, rigor, and timeliness; high degrees of self-motivation and organization
• Comfortable with an agile environment with frequent changes in scope or direction
• Ability to work effectively and collaboratively in a team-based environment and partner with external/internal stakeholders; demonstrated experience in assessing and addressing stakeholder needs through influence, conflict resolution, and negotiation

Additional Information

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 US base salary range for this full-time position is $119,840 to $185,600 USD. The range does not include benefits, and if applicable, bonus, commission, or equity. The range displayed reflects the minimum and maximum target for new hire salaries across all US locations for the posted role.

Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including, but not limited to, job-related skills, experience,