Medical Affairs Research Manager
About The Position
The Medical Research Manager will engage with top Key Opinion Leaders (KOLs) to inform research strategy, foster research collaboration, and promote scientific excellence. They will manage research proposals from the national Field Medical Team to support data generation and research activities for key applications and/or cancer types aligned with company initiatives across academic and community clinicians. The Medical Research Manager will partner with multiple internal cross-functional stakeholders (Product, Technology Development and Bioinformatics, Clinical Development, Biostatistics, Managed Care and Reimbursement, Commercial) as well as external collaborators, advisors, and KOLs to identify clinical unmet need and evidence gaps to then lead the execution, and publication of clinical feasibility and validation studies, including those focused on clinical feasibility, clinical validity, and clinical utility. Additionally, the Medical Evidence Manager will perform direct research and develop scientific content for internal and external audiences.
Requirements
- Typically requires a university degree and typically 8 years of related experience; 6 years and a Master’s degree; 3 years and a PhD; or PharmD/MD.
- Clinical expertise or related experience in oncology and/or genomics is highly desirable.
- Experience working with experts at academic medical centers and/or biopharma companies to build consensus around new products and/or services highly desirable.
- Experience designing, conducting, and/or publishing clinical research required
- Proven experience developing and generating data for novel clinical products with KOLs strongly desired
- Expertise in genomic biomarker testing technologies, including IHC, DNA/RNA, FISH, NGS (particularly plasma NGS/liquid biopsy), and digital PCR
- Applies advanced knowledge of the biotechnology, diagnostics and pharmaceutical industry.
- Ability to apply advanced knowledge of company product specifications.
- Intermediate-to-advanced knowledge of the following computer software programs: Microsoft Office: Powerpoint, Excel, and Word
- Ability to work independently and remotely while maintaining a strong teamwork ethic.
Responsibilities
- Establish and maintain relationships with top key opinion leaders for scientific exchange, elevating Guardant’s reputation and laying foundation for potential collaborations.
- Identify and pursue opportunities for collaboration, with input and oversight by leadership, with top key opinion leaders and their institutions that support Guardant Health strategic clinical data development needs.
- Collaborate with area lead to address inbound research requests from Field Medical partners to promote deeper understanding of Guardant research practices and strategies
- Identify clinical unmet needs, evidence gaps and execute evidence-generating studies to support development, commercial launch, reimbursement, and guideline adoption of the Guardant 360 Liquid and Tissue products
- Leverage scientific, clinical, and/or technical expertise to influence top key opinion leaders biomarker implementation for their clinical trials and interpretation of Guardant Research Use Only (RUO) and Investigative Use Only (IUO) data returned.
- Conduct research with Guardant datasets alongside collaborators and champion effective scientific writing for effective data submissions to peer-reviewed
- Provide strategic review and proposed edits for collaborative abstracts, posters, presentations and manuscripts when applicable
- Serve as internal and external advocate for scientifically and clinically sound applications of ctDNA for clinical trials, oncology research and future clinical care
- Generates accurate and up-to-date scientific and medical content, including late-stage treatment landscapes for application/cancer type/s accountable for, for internal and external audiences
- Maintains awareness of related publications across platforms and generates up-to-date scientific and medical content for applications/cancer type/s accountable for
Benefits
- Flexibility for better work-life balance
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
