Senior Manager, Medical Education & Grants

About Summit

Summit Therapeutics Inc. is a biopharmaceutical oncology company with a mission focused on improving quality of life, increasing potential duration of life, and resolving serious unmet medical needs. At Summit, we believe in building a team of world class professionals who are passionate about this mission, and it is our people who drive this mission to reality. Summit’s core values include integrity, passion for excellence, purposeful urgency, collaboration, and our commitment to people. Our employees are truly the heart and soul of our culture, and they are invaluable in shaping our journey toward excellence.

Summit’s team is inspired to touch and help change lives through Summit’s clinical studies in the field of oncology. Summit has multiple global Phase 3 clinical studies, including:

Non-small Cell Lung Cancer (NSCLC)

• HARMONi: Phase 3 clinical study which was intended to evaluate ivonescimab combined with chemotherapy compared to placebo plus chemotherapy in patients with EGFR-mutated, locally advanced or metastatic non-squamous NSCLC who were previously treated with a 3rd generation EGFR TKI.

• HARMONi-3: Phase 3 clinical study which is intended to evaluate ivonescimab combined with chemotherapy compared to pembrolizumab combined with chemotherapy in patients with first-line metastatic NSCLC.

• HARMONi-7: Phase 3 clinical study which is intended to evaluate ivonescimab monotherapy compared to pembrolizumab monotherapy in patients with first-line metastatic NSCLC.

Colorectal Cancer (CRC)

• HARMONi-GI3: Phase 3 clinical study intended to evaluate ivonescimab in combination with chemotherapy compared with bevacizumab plus chemotherapy.

Ivonescimab is an investigational therapy not presently approved by any regulatory authority other than China’s National Medical Products Administration (NMPA). Summit is headquartered in Miami, Florida, and has additional offices in California, New Jersey, the UK, and Ireland.

Position Overview:

The Senior Manager, Medical Education & Grants (SM) is responsible for helping build, execute, and optimize Summit’s independent and continuous medical education programs (IME/CME) in alignment with the company’s scientific and medical strategy.

The SM will oversee the end-to-end lifecycle of medical education grants and sponsorships, including needs assessment, review, decision-making, compliance oversight, outcomes evaluation, and insights generation. This individual will collaborate closely with Medical Affairs, Clinical Development, Compliance, Legal, Medical Communications, Patient Advocacy, HEOR, Market Access, and Finance to ensure all activities are scientifically rigorous, compliant, and strategically aligned.

This is an onsite role based in Palo Alto, CA, reporting to the Head of Medical Communications & Information.

Key Responsibilities:

Medical Education Strategy & Infrastructure Development

• Assist in building and implementing Summit’s Medical Education & Grants operating model, including processes, timelines, governance, systems, and cross-functional workflows.
• Help develop and execute comprehensive medical education plans for assigned therapeutic areas, as aligned with Medical Affairs strategy and launch priorities.
• Facilitate the strategic planning and execution of regional and national medical education initiatives (e.g., symposia, workshops, online sessions, etc), ensuring educational content aligns with the strategy, scientific objectives, and audience needs.
• Serve as the liaison with faculty and the IME providers to develop, refine, and review content that is both scientifically accurate and educationally engaging.
• Partner with internal stakeholders (Medical Affairs, Clinical, Regulatory, Compliance, Marketing) to ensure alignment and compliance across all programs.
• Serve as the internal expert on IME regulations, industry standards, and best practices (ACCME, OIG, PhRMA, Sunshine Act).
• Represent Summit on-site at symposia and workshops to oversee program execution and faculty engagement.

Grant & Sponsorship Review, Decision-Making, and Oversight

• Support establishing mechanisms for needs assessment, educational gap analysis, and strategic prioritization of grant and sponsorship funding.
• Monitor and perform initial review of grant and sponsorship requests for completeness and alignment to industry and company guidelines.
• Process requests, to include communication of grant decisions to internal and external parties and issuing of payment to requestors, addressing any educational gap and strategic priorities un