Medical Science Liaison - Oncology

Company Description

Guardant Health is a leading precision oncology company focused on guarding wellness and giving every person more time free from cancer. Founded in 2012, Guardant® is transforming patient care and accelerating new cancer therapies by providing critical insights into what drives disease through its advanced blood and tissue tests, real-world data and AI analytics. Guardant tests help improve outcomes across all stages of care, including screening to find cancer early, monitoring for recurrence in early-stage cancer, and treatment selection for patients with advanced cancer. For more information, visit guardanthealth.com and follow the company on LinkedIn, X (Twitter) and Facebook. 

The Medical Science Liaison, Oncology provides scientific and technical leadership while educating community based physicians with the most current study findings (abstracts and publications) encouraging the clinical value of Guardant Health’s product(s). The Medical Science Liaison, Oncology, seeks opportunities to engage with physicians to review real-world cases and address questions related to test reports. The Medical Science Liaison, Oncology seeks opportunities to further progress understanding of our novel diagnostic technologies. The Medical Science Liaison, Oncology identifies opportunities for collaboration on relevant research projects and other projects of mutual interest.

The Medical Science Liaison, Oncology ensures a strong scientific partnership between Medical Affairs and Commercial. The Medical Science Liaison, Oncology builds relationships with local/regional professional societies and health plans to provide education regarding emerging abstracts and publications relevant to molecular testing as those entities make policy.

The Medical Science Liaison, Oncology plays an integral role in accelerating the advancement of patient care through demonstrated intrinsic motivation, curiosity, persistence and collaboration.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Provide scientific and technical leadership to ensure professional and credible relationships with key community physicians, and KOLs to promote understanding and adoption of our novel diagnostic technologies
• Be a resource for community physicians to evaluate and provide guidance on interpretation of real-world patient test reports
• Facilitate educational growth and understanding through the presentation of scientific content to Medical providers and their staff.
• Identify opportunities for collaboration with KOLs to present at scientific forums such as national and regional specialty society meetings, as well as other strategic industry medical needs.
• Synopsize and educate key staff regarding emerging abstracts and publications relevant to molecular testing
• Facilitate medical and scientific field intelligence that could include list of providers/ investigators in specific tumor types. Elicit feedback on current and future products and share with our internal commercial and research divisions. Understand competitive research activities in active or planned study sites, generate insights from investigators on challenges and opportunities for sponsored clinical trials – and communicate, where appropriate, within Guardant.
• Prepare and present clinical requests for information related to institutional guidelines or pathways

Qualifications:

• Clinical expertise or related experience in Oncology is required.
• Typically requires a university degree and typically 5 years of related experience; 3 years and a Master’s degree; or a PhD. (Terminal degree in a scientific field of study Genetic Counselor, NP/PA, Pharm.D., Ph.D., M.D. or academic equivalent such as Associate Professor position).
• Experience working with clinicians to build consensus around new products and/or services
• Track record of independent presentation at major academic centers or within the community setting resulting in product adoption
• Prior experience in the introduction of a novel new clinical product is highly desired

Additional Skills

• Applies advanced knowledge of the biotechnology, diagnostics and pharmaceutical industry to advance the medical and scientific objectives our diagnostic company.
• Proficiency in Excel, Word, Power Point, and other software skills; Excellent written/verbal communication skills.
• Ability to work independently and remotely while maintaining a strong teamwork ethic
• Multi-dimensional in abilities to work on simultaneous tasks, work cross-team and at different levels of the organization, whether internal or external relationships to the organization
• Self-directed, intrinsically motivated, flexible to changes in an ever-changing dynamic environment
• Strong problem-solving skills, good attention to detail, time management skills and personal initiative
• Exceptional human relations skills to coordinate the accomplishment of tasks through other people
• Ability to elicit and answer clinical questions in groups ranging from individuals to larger didactic roundtables and meetings

Work Environment:

Extensive travel required up to 3-4 days/overnights per week to meet with KOLs, attend physician education talks and conference, including specialty society scientific meetings (will require some weekend work). Travel is estimated to be approximately 75%.

Office may be home-based, and involves extensive use of computer and keyboard while in home office.

AI & Digital Fluency

• Demonstrate curiosity, sound judgment, and the ability to critically evaluate and responsibly leverage AI-enabled tools in accordance with company policies, ethical standards, and regulatory requirements to improve the efficiency, effectiveness, and quality of work.

Hybrid Work Model: This section is applicable to onsite employees who are eligible for hybrid work location as specified by management and related policies.  Guardant has defined days for in-person/onsite collaboration and work-from-home days for individual-focused time. All U.S. employees who live within 50 miles of a Guardant facility will be required to be onsite on Mondays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays. We have found aligning our scheduled in-office days allows our teams to do the best work and creates the focused thinking time our innovative work requires. At Guardant, our work model has created flexibility for better work-life balance while keeping teams connected to advance our science for our patients.

The annualized base salary ranges for the primary location and any additional locations are listed below. This range does not include benefits or, if applicable, bonus, commission, or equity. Each candidate’s compensation offer will be based on multiple factors including, but not limited to, geography, experience, education, job-related skills, job duties, and business need.

Primary Location: Remote-USA-MO
Primary Location Base Pay Range: $145,000 - $199,350
Other US Location(s) Base Pay Range: $145,000 - $199,350
If the role is performed in Colorado, the pay range for this job is: $145,000 - $199,350