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- Experience asked
- 10+ years
- Education
- PhD
About the role
At Veracyte, we offer exciting career opportunities for those interested in joining a pioneering team that is committed to transforming cancer care for patients across the globe. Working at Veracyte enables our employees to not only make a meaningful impact on the lives of patients, but to also learn and grow within a purpose driven environment. This is what we call the Veracyte way – it’s about how we work together, guided by our values, to give clinicians the insights they need to help patients make life-changing decisions.
Our Values:
- We Seek A Better Way: We pursue bold ideas, embrace complexity, and keep pushing forward.
- We Make It Happen: We act with urgency, deliver with excellence, and always find a way.
- We Are Stronger Together: We engage with empathy, align around what's best for Veracyte, and celebrate as one team.
- We Care Deeply: We show up with integrity, kindness, and respect for one another.
The Position:
The Medical Director is responsible forestablishing and implementing the medical affairs strategy for the Afirma/endocrinology franchise to advance the company’s related genomic into clinical practice.
The Medical Director’s responsibilities will align along four focused areas:
(1). Key Opinion Leader (KOL) relationship development;
(2.) Publication strategy and execution that support product adoption and reimbursement;
(3.) Scientific support of the commercial team; and (4.) scientific leadership of R&D and clinical trial strategy and execution.
Responsibilities:
Provide strategic and tactical guidance across the indication/products:
- Initiate, cultivate and manage relationships with key global opinion leaders to foster a collaborative synergy between Veracyte and academia including but not limited to the following avenues:
- Medical Advisory Board Meetings
- Presentations at national and international meetings
- Peer reviewed publications
- Investigator initiated research
- Guideline inclusion
- Medical policy inclusion
- Engagement in clinical trials
Provide leadership in the development and execution of Veracyte’s publication plan:
- Lead the development of Veracyte’s publication plan
- Collaborate internally and externally to optimize presentations
- Innovate key message communication to a variety of stakeholders
Participate in Veracyte’s Product Development teams for the development of future products and guidance to all features of tests under development.
- Provide input during product concept, feasibility, development, validation, and through to product launch.
- Develop the technology differentiators that help establish product superiority
- Represent the voice of customer for product design; help to finalize customer requirements so that products will be competitive on market.
- Plan and design clinical trials including consideration for sample collection during post-launch validation trials, clinical utility trials, and cost effectiveness studies.
Other Responsibilities:
- Represent Veracyte at the scientific and medical professional organizational meetings.
- Remain knowledgeable and conversant about new developments and trends in thyroid endocrinology that impact or influence our product portfolio.
- Provide leadership and contributions to the commercial team in areas including but not limited to:
- Global marketing and sales
- Payer relations
- Medical policy
- Veracyte team education
Who You Are:
- PhD or MD degree
- At least 13 years of expertise in scientific and medical writing and presentations which may include:
- Primary authorship on peer reviewed papers
- Oral presentations at national or international scientific meetings
- Responsibility for development and submission of regulatory documents
- At least 10 years of clinical research experience inclusive of:
- Research Protocol development
- Good Clinical Practice Certification
- Data analytics and basic biostatistics
- Flexibility to travel up to 30% of the time to meet with key physicians, researchers and payers, and attend/present at industry events domestically and internationally.
- Excellent communication skills with ability to maintain open communication with people of all backgrounds and expertise inside and outside the Company.
- Proven ability to successfully communicate, consult, collaborate and coach in a complex and competitive environment.
- Ability to translate complex medical messages into communications that are understood by each target audience.
- Ability to distill large complex clinical data sets into meaningful and understandable messages.
- Warm, engaging personality with highly developed influencing skills and ability to represent the Company and its products/services with credibility.
- Strong team player with excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to work cross-functionally throughout the Company.
- Collaborative and strong leadership qualities; ability to build team consensus.
- The ability to leverage business principles within the team while maintaining a corporate view of the portfolio.
- Ability to thrive in an entrepreneurial, dynamic and fast-paced environment.
- Exceptional communicator, including both written and verbal skills, with ability to clearly and thoroughly communicate on behalf of all Company matters.
- Impeccable ethics, conducting business in the most professional manner possible.
The final salary offered to a successful candidate will be dependent on several factors that may include but are not limited to years of experience, skillset, geographic location, industry, education, etc. Base pay is one part of the Total Package that is provided to compensate and recognize employees for their work, and this role may be eligible for additional discretionary bonuses/incentives, and restricted stock units.
What We Can Offer You
Veracyte is a growing company that offers significant career opportunities if you are curious, driven, patient-oriented and aspire to help us build a great company. We offer competitive compensation and benefits, and are committed to fostering an inclusive workforce, where diverse backgrounds are represented, engaged, and empowered to drive innovative ideas and decisions. We are thrilled to be recognized as a 2024 Certified™ Great Place to Work® in both the US and Israel - a testament to our dynamic, inclusive, and inspiring workplace where passion meets purpose.
About Veracyte
Veracyte (Nasdaq: VCYT) is a global diagnostics company whose vision is to transform cancer care for patients all over the world. We empower clinicians with the high-value insights they need to guide and assure patients at pivotal moments in the race to diagnose and treat cancer. Our Veracyte Diagnostics Platform delivers high-performing cancer tests that are fueled by broad genomic and clinical data, deep bioinformatic and AI capabilities, and a powerful evidence-generation engine, which ultimately drives durable reimbursement and guideline inclusion for our tests, along with new insights to support continued innovation and pipeline development. For more information, please visit www.veracyte.com or follow us on LinkedIn or X (Twitter).
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