Medical Affairs Research Manager (I9) 

Position Summary:  
 

The Medical Affairs Research Manager is a field-facing research professional who will engage with top clinical and research experts to foster research collaboration, bring medical insights that inform GH’s medical strategy and promote scientific excellence. They will manage research proposals from the national Field Medical Team to support data generation and research activities for key products and/or cancer types aligned with company initiatives across academic clinicians.  

The Medical Affairs Research Manager will partner with multiple internal cross-functional stakeholders as well as external collaborators and clinical experts to identify clinical unmet need and evidence gaps to advance clinical feasibility, clinical validity, and other studies.  

Essential Duties and Responsibilities: 

• Establish and maintain relationships with top research and clinical experts to identify and pursue opportunities for research collaboration to address unmet medical needs with GH products. 

• Collaborate with MSL team to address inbound research requests from Field Medical partners to promote deeper understanding of Guardant research practices and strategies.  

• Consult with Clinical Development to identify clinical unmet needs, evidence gaps and advance evidence-generating studies to support development, commercial launch, reimbursement, and guideline adoption of the Guardant Oncology products.

• Champion ISTs through protocol review committee and discussions with research collaborators to advance the research proposals. 

• Leverage scientific, clinical, and/or technical expertise to influence top key opinion leaders biomarker implementation for their clinical trials and interpretation of Guardant Research Use Only (RUO) and Investigative Use Only (IUO) data returned. 

• Advance research with Guardant datasets alongside collaborators and champion effective scientific writing for effective data submissions to peer-reviewed. 

• Provide strategic review and proposed edits for collaborative abstracts, posters, presentations and manuscripts when applicable. 

• Serve as advocate for scientifically and clinically sound applications of precision oncology assays for clinical trials, oncology research and future clinical care, in alignment with medical strategic plans. 

• Serve as GH research manager for key academic institutions championing research engagements across the institutions and collaborating with other field teams to support research strategy and engagements. 

• Review and/or provide input on accurate and up-to-date scientific and medical content, including late-stage treatment landscapes for application/cancer type/s accountable for, for internal and external audiences.  

• Identify and gather areas of unmet medical need and act as a champion for clinical and research experts, internally elevating feedback and voice of customers.  

• Maintains awareness of related publications across platforms and generates up-to-date scientific and medical content for applications/cancer type/s accountable for in collaboration with Clinical Development, Medical Enablement and/or Oncology Marketing.  

• Maintain understanding of competitive landscape and trends in oncology precision medicine.  

• Lead and/or collaborate with regional cross-functional field team to align on account research priorities and strategy. 

• Inform and liaise to cross-functional efforts within US Medical Affairs and/or across Guardant teams. 

 
Qualifications:  

• Typically requires a university degree and typically 8 years of related experience; 6 years and a Master’s degree; 3 years and a PhD; or PharmD/MD. Clinical expertise or related experience in oncology and/or genomics is highly desirable.  

• Experience working with experts at academic medical centers and/or biopharma companies to build consensus around new products and/or services highly desirable. 

• Experience conducting and/or publishing clinical research highly desirable. 

• Proven experience generating data from a Clinical Development or Research Plan for novel clinical products with KOLs strongly desired. 

Technical Skills Required:  

• Expertise in genomic biomarker testing technologies, including IHC, DNA/RNA, FISH, NGS (particularly plasma NGS/liquid biopsy), and digital PCR. 

• Applies advanced knowledge of the biotechnology, diagnostics and pharmaceutical industry. 

• Ability to apply advanced knowledge of company product specifications. 

• Intermediate-to-advanced 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. 

Work Environment:  

• Moderate travel required, approximately 3-5 trips per quarter to meet with KOLs/PIs, attend conferences, including specialty society scientific meetings (will require some weekend work), and trips to headquarters. Travel is estimated to be up to 40%.  

• Must be able to travel as required for the role using various modes of transportation, including car, air, and public transit.

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

• Requires the ability to focus on multiple tasks simultaneously, work in high-paced, high-energy environment and the ability to work independently and remotely while maintaining a strong teamwork ethic.