Country Medical Lead Italy

About the Role:

Based in Italy the primary role of the County Medical Lead Medical Affairs (MA) is to educate and develop academic key opinion leaders (KOL) champions with the most current study findings (abstracts publications and evidence pipeline) supporting the clinical value of Guardant Healths products.

The Country Medical Lead will codevelop the studies and publication strategies with the MA Director South of Europe and the VP of MA International to develop clinical evidence to achieve positive guidelines and physician adoption and support private and public payer coverage. This role will report to the Medical Affairs Director South of Europe.

The role plays a major role in abstract and publication creation and in the development and creation of physician educational slides to be deployed in focused events (such as academic grand rounds scientific sessions advisory boards or Continuing Medical Education (CME) lectures) and in training speakers/educators.

S/he will understand the clinical needs for the oncology focused healthcare professionals and cancer patients and build a team focused on strategic partnerships with leading cancer centers throughout Italy and communitybased oncology groups with clinical utilization needs and interest for routine care / trials capabilities.

They will need to be effective at translating data from research and clinical utility projects as well as real world evidence data and disseminating key information through publications and presentations at national regional and local meetings healthcare professional events patient events and educational activities.

The role also involves supporting strategic commercial partnerships related to healthcare institutions marketing and market access; education and training of the sales team and development of regional physician influencers to drive test coverage.

The Country Medical Lead is able to drive strategic initiatives and collaboration with other senior Guardant executives and construction of studies and publications roadmaps that achieve corporate objectives.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• In depth understanding that cancer is a complex disease and identify clinical unmet needs in diagnostic and therapeutic pathways together with involved healthcare professionals patients and payers
• Identify develop and/or maintain strong collaborative working relationships with premier cancer center KOL champions to promote understanding and adoption of our novel diagnostic technologies.
• In partnership with the Sales executives identify and support strategic healthcare partnerships that include evidence generation opportunities pathway definition per tumor type molecular tumor boards advisory boards report interpretation and registry support.
• Drive the development of clinical utility projects and investigatorinitiated studies that lead to data generation required for market access purposes generating pertinent abstracts and publications.
• Critically review and develop education slides based on new publications and research findings for approval by the MA Director South of Europe and global Marketing.
• Lead and support speaker programs and education of leading clinicians with expertise in main solid tumors. Support continued education.
• Prepare or support the elaboration of onsite oral presentations data reviews and interactive education events for KOLs also known as deep dive
• Synopsize and educate key personnel regarding emerging abstracts and publications relevant to molecular testing.
• Assist the MA Director South of Europe and the Medical Affairs colleagues in agenda planning and meeting facilitation of Clinical Advisory Board(s) and scientific events.
• Identify and help draft study protocols and publication plans including drafting/first authoring of multiple abstracts and publications with external KOL coauthors.
• Be able to lead Medical Science Liaison and Clinical Oncology Specialist teams in the country to develop KOL champions at leading national centers and large oncology group strategic partners.
• Lead in major investigatorinitiated multicenter studies that expand our indications through validation and outcomes assessment.
• Work hand in hand with the country manager to secure the countrys strategy is supported by the medical plan and activities.
• Work closely with the country team including the sales specialist team and client services.
• Support market access activities and the development of materials and dossiers required to generate or broaden payer adoption.
• Teamwork with the clinical trial manager(s) international and global (US based) to have an overview on the ongoing trials and their relevance in data generation.
• Work closely with the medical affairs team EUAA and the broader global medical affairs organization.
• Leader able to connect with US and AMEA based piers.
• Identify main scientific conferences in the country organizing Guardant Healths presence and goals & objectives.
• Plan the yearly budget requirements to achieve the MA country goals in conjunction with the global MA international team the Medical Affairs Director South of Europe and the country manager.

Qualifications :

• Terminal degree in a scientific field of study (Pharm.D. Ph.D. M.D. or Masters Level with academic equivalent such as Associate Professor position).
• Clinical expertise or related experience in Oncology is highly desirable.  Minimum of 35 years of healthcare experience in the pharmaceutical biotech academic or cancer diagnostic industry.
• Experience working with experts at academic medical centers to build consensus around new products and/or services.
• Skilled team builder/manager.
• Successful publication as primary author or primary draftee of peerreviewed publications.
• Track record of independent presentation at major academic centers resulting in product adoption.
• Material input and experience in study protocol design and documentation.
• Prior experience as an DMA in the introduction of a novel new clinical product is highly desired.

 Technical Skills Required

• Applies advanced knowledge of the biotechnology diagnostics and pharmaceutical industry with main focus on Oncology.
• 8  years of experience in the field.
• Ability to apply advanced knowledge of company product specifications.
• Intermediatetoadvanced 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.
• Multidimensional in abilities to work on simultaneous tasks work crossteam and at different levels of the organization whether internal or external relationships to the organization.
• Selfdirected intrinsically motivated flexible to changes in an ever changing dynamic environment.
• Strong problemsolving skills good attention to detail time management skills and personal initiative.
• Ability to set priorities and selforganize the working agenda.
• Exceptional human relations skills to coordinate the accomplishment of tasks through other people.
• Outstanding oral presentation skills in Italian and English.
• Highly developed written skills the ability to produce documents for dissemination both inside and outside the organization for presentations technical briefs and scientific publications.
• Ability to elicit and answer clinical questions in groups ranging from individuals to larger didactic roundtables and meetings.
• Ability to address highlevel experts in the scientific field at companysponsored events and trade shows.
• Excellent proofreading skills with the ability to proof for proper grammar spelling punctuation and formatting of documents. 
• Additional languages beyond English and Italian are of interest.

 Work Environment:

• Extensive travel that may require up to 34 days per week to meet with KOLs attend physician education talks and conferences including specialty society scientific meetings scientific sessions advisory boards and healthcare events.
• Some weekend work might be required (eg: scientific conferences and meetings scheduled on weekends)
• Travel is estimated to be approximately 4050 of the working time.
• Mostly national travel will be required with the potential need to attend some selected international conferences (eg ASCO ESMO) and team meetings which will depend on the companys needs and customer attendance.
• Must be physically able to handle extensive travel in vehicle train plane or other modes of public transport.
• Office can be homebased and involves extensive use of computer and keyboard while in home office.
• Requires the ability to focus on multiple tasks simultaneously work in highpaced highenergy environment.

Remote Work :

Yes

Employment Type :

Fulltime