Sr. Manager, Advocacy
About The Position
The Senior Manager, Advocacy helps lead Dexcom’s work to advance access to its technology by shaping the external policy environment, strengthening partnerships with advocacy organizations and professional societies, and elevating the voices of people living with diabetes. The role develops and executes advocacy strategies that support coverage, access, and policy priorities for people with diabetes and related metabolic health needs. This position provides day-to-day leadership for advocacy workstreams, guiding priorities and execution, removing roadblocks, and focusing the team on high-impact initiatives. It builds relationships with external stakeholders, translates their perspectives into recommendations for internal strategy, and partners across functions to coordinate messaging and external engagement. The Senior Manager also mentors team members, represents Dexcom at external events, and manages initiatives, timelines, budgets, and stakeholder communications. The primary work location is a home office, with no assigned workstation. The employee works with their manager to determine office visit needs and must live within commuting distance—typically 75 miles/120 km—of their assigned Dexcom site. Travel is 15–25%.
Requirements
- Demonstrated experience developing and executing advocacy, policy, public affairs, or stakeholder engagement strategies in the medical device, pharmaceutical, biotech, or healthcare industry.
- Strong understanding of the diabetes landscape, including patient advocacy organizations, professional societies, access barriers, and policy dynamics affecting people with diabetes.
- Proven ability to build trusted relationships with external stakeholders and translate complex policy, access, or clinical topics into clear, compelling advocacy messages.
- Demonstrated leadership capabilities, including guiding cross-functional teams, coaching others, driving accountability, and delivering results through influence.
- Strong cross-functional leadership skills, including influencing without authority, managing competing priorities, and driving alignment across internal teams.
- Bachelor’s degree required.
- Typically requires 13 or more years of industry experience.
- Five to eight years of previous people-management experience.
- Must live within commuting distance of the assigned Dexcom site, typically 75 miles/120 km.
Nice To Haves
- Bachelor’s degree preferably in Public Health, Healthcare Administration, Communications, Life Sciences, Public Policy, or a related field.
Responsibilities
- Develop and execute advocacy strategies supporting coverage, access, and policy priorities for people with diabetes and related metabolic health needs.
- Provide day-to-day leadership for key advocacy workstreams by setting priorities, guiding execution, removing roadblocks, and focusing the team on high-impact initiatives.
- Build and strengthen relationships with national and regional advocacy organizations, professional societies, policymakers, and other external stakeholders.
- Translate advocacy insights and external stakeholder perspectives into recommendations that inform internal strategy and cross-functional decision-making.
- Partner with Policy, Government Affairs, Market Access, Medical Affairs, Marketing, and PR to coordinate messaging and align external engagement.
- Mentor and support team members to build advocacy capabilities, improve stakeholder engagement, and strengthen program execution.
- Represent Dexcom at industry conferences, coalition meetings, patient forums, and public events to advance advocacy priorities and strengthen the company’s presence in the diabetes community.
- Manage advocacy initiatives, timelines, budgets, and stakeholder communications to ensure high-quality execution and measurable impact.
Benefits
- Full and comprehensive benefits program.
- Growth opportunities on a global scale.
- Career development through in-house learning programs and/or qualified tuition reimbursement.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
