Senior Director, Comm Marketing, PTX, MRD
Exact Sciences
Director, Medical Affairs – Hereditary Disease
Illumina
full-time
Posted on:
Origin: • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $220,500 - $330,700 per year
Job Level
Lead
About the role
- Represent medical affairs by providing clinical expertise in interactions with Illumina’s sales and marketing, business development and other commercial functional groups
- 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 and product life cycle teams to support product launch strategy and ensure internal and external launch readiness
- Execute US medical affairs strategies for evidence generation and scientific communication for hereditary disease diagnostic genetic testing, reproductive genetic screening, newborn sequencing, and broad population screening
- Support development and execution of a comprehensive portfolio of medical collaborative research in hereditary disease, reproductive genetics, population screening, and germline medical genetics
- Collaborate with Market Access to develop evidence to improve reimbursement for hereditary disease genomics
- Lead development of scientific and medical education content and in-house training for the medical affairs team and other staff
- Build sustainable partnerships with US key opinion leaders to incorporate Illumina’s products into clinical care guidelines
- Prepare tailored clinical presentations for collaborators and key opinion leaders
- Report to Senior Director of Medical Affairs, AMR Hereditary Disease and be part of Global Medical Affairs
Requirements
- Advanced degree (PhD or MD) and board certification by the American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics in clinical molecular genetics or clinical laboratory genetics and genomics
- 8+ years of direct hands-on CLIA/CAP clinical laboratory experience in hereditary disease screening and diagnostic testing (hereditary cancer, reproductive genetics, pediatric genetics, rare disease)
- 2+ years of medical affairs related experience in clinical genomics
- Experience bridging activities of medical teams with commercial, regulatory, legal, quality, product, and other teams
- Demonstrated research and publications output in prominent scientific journals as first or senior author
- Experience interacting with patient advocacy groups, government policymaking bodies, professional societies, and federal regulatory bodies
- Strong communicator and collaborator with commercial team counterparts and R&D
- Excellent speaking and writing skills to present Illumina research to national audiences
- Ability to travel at least 30%
- Excellent inter-personal skills and ability to work with people of diverse educational and professional backgrounds
- Experience with Illumina next-generation sequencing and bioinformatics technologies
- Board-certified clinical laboratory molecular geneticist
- Role not eligible for visa sponsorship
- Background check conducted for conditional offers
