Passionate about precision medicine and advancing the healthcare industry?
Recent advancements in underlying technology have finally made it possible for AI to impact clinical care in a meaningful way. Tempus' proprietary platform connects an entire ecosystem of real-world evidence to deliver real-time, actionable insights to physicians, providing critical information about the right treatments for the right patients, at the right time.
The Senior Director, Genomics Strategy and Operations will support the Senior Director, Genomics and will share development and execution of strategic focus areas for the oncology business - where to play and how to win - for growing the oncology Genomics business to a specific revenue target over a multi-year period.
What You’ll Do:
Portfolio Strategy: Develop near and long-term portfolio vision, strategy and roadmap for Tempus’ oncology products, based on analysis of customer needs, competitive landscape, internal feasibility, and financial and strategic value. Deliverables include:
3-5 year long term franchise plans, prioritizing new product and other business growth opportunities (e.g, WGS strategy, tissue, liquid, hereditary and heme portfolio strategies)
Near-term franchise plans for assay improvements, product changes, customer experience priorities to deliver the optimal product to patients and providers
Target product profiles (TPPs)
Commercialization and lifecycle management plans
Cross Functional Collaboration: Collaborate with cross-functional leadership (sales, marketing, market access, medical, product, R&D, customer success, etc.) to deliver on business goals for the oncology portfolio
Ensure appropriate resource availability and prioritization
Constantly evaluate trade-off decisions to ensure product development speed, efficiency, and quality
Develop launch clinical evidence and reimbursement strategies to guide new product launch planning
Proactively monitor competitive intelligence and customer feedback to identify and act on new threats and opportunities
Business Operations: Manage business prioritization, facilitate the development of objectives and key results (OKRs), manage product forecasts and execution of business objectives.
Business Development: Evaluate new business partnership opportunities to deliver new offerings to customers or open new channels to sell.
Partnership Management: Oversee the implementation of new partnerships, foster strong relationships and manage performance of the partnership.
Customer Experience Strategy: Develop short, medium and long term strategies for business growth across the end to end customer experience.
Product Launch: Manage product launch strategy, coordinate launch across the commercial organization.
This individual will support the creation and execution plan to achieve the long term strategy, working closely with the Senior Director, Genomics, and articulate that vision internally and externally to align the organization to that plan. Together, they will continue to evaluate and refine the list of initiatives based on experimentation and customer feedback.
The Senior Director, Genomics Strategy & Operations will have six direct reports, all of which are leads of individual testing portfolios, customer experience and partnership management/product launch.
Requirements:
Bachelors degree required, MBA preferred
8+ years of experience in an analytical business role such as business strategy, finance, sales operations, and/or business intelligence, including 2+ years of experience in commercial strategy / sales operations
3+ years of experience managing direct reports
Strong business acumen, including the ability to translate data insights into action plans
Excellent verbal and written communication skills
Entrepreneurial mindset and comfort with ambiguity
Solutions-oriented and biased to action
Commercial experience in oncology, with clinician-facing products, and/or within a life sciences organization
$160,000-$220,000
The expected salary range above is applicable if the role is performed from Illinois and may vary for other locations (California, Colorado, New York). Actual salary may vary based on qualifications and experience. Tempus offers a full range of benefits, which may include incentive compensation, restricted stock units, medical and other benefits depending on the position.
We are an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
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What We Do
We bring together one of the world’s largest libraries of multimodal clinical and molecular data with a robust suite of AI tools to help physicians personalize care in real time, connect patients with therapies and clinical trials, and enable partners to accelerate discovery and development of new treatments.
With ~8 million de-identified research records and 350+ petabytes of data, Tempus partners with more than half of U.S. oncologists and the majority of the top 20 global pharma companies. Our teams are pioneering work across oncology, neurology, psychiatry, cardiology, and beyond—transforming how care is delivered and therapies are developed.
At Tempus, every role contributes to our mission: to help each patient benefit from the experiences of those who came before.
For more information, visit tempus.com.
Why Work With Us
We’re looking for people who can change the world. People who question the status quo and refuse to shy away from tough problems. For builders who are never done building, and the learners who are never done learning. Passionate individuals with undying curiosity who want to take on one of the greatest challenges humanity has ever faced—head on.
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