Director or Senior Director, New Products
GRAIL is a healthcare company whose mission is to detect cancer early, when it can be cured. GRAIL is focused on alleviating the global burden of cancer by developing pioneering technology to detect and identify multiple deadly cancer types early. The company is using the power of next-generation sequencing, population-scale clinical studies, and state-of-the-art computer science and data science to enhance the scientific understanding of cancer biology, and to develop its multi-cancer early detection blood test. GRAIL is headquartered in Menlo Park, CA with locations in Washington, D.C., North Carolina, and the United Kingdom. GRAIL, LLC is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Illumina, Inc. (NASDAQ:ILMN). For more information, please visit www.grail.com.
GRAIL is hiring a highly motivated Director of New Products, who will lead the strategy, planning and management of new product opportunities. The candidate for this position must be able to operate in a fast-paced organization with high expectations on quality of results. This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced leader seeking to join a hard-working mission-driven team.
You Will:
- Lead cross-functional teams focussed on the evaluation and development of new product opportunities for GRAIL.
- Lead the new product strategy, new product roadmap and R&D roadmap, ensuring consideration of market insights, competitive analysis, technical feasibility, regulatory landscape, reimbursement and market access, and value to our portfolio.
- Use business, scientific and technical knowledge to map landscapes, identify unmet needs, and develop target product profiles.
- Develop business cases and analyses enabling prioritization and tradeoffs.
- Develop strategy documents, target product profiles, product requirements, workflows, budgets, timelines.
- Develop and execute on strategic planning and portfolio management processes.
- Ensure that strategies and plans are coordinated across all departments and aligned with portfolio and corporate goals.
- Shepherd the product concept into the product development process, collaborating with R&D and other cross-functional partners. Cross-functional partners include R&D, bioinformatics/data science, biostats, lab operations, clinical development, software product/engineering, commercial, medical affairs, quality, regulatory, legal, senior and executive leadership.
- Maintain deep understanding of current and future market needs through interactions with customers, key opinion leaders, professional societies, other team members, and translate learnings into new product and portfolio insights and recommendations.
- Maintain deep understanding of the scientific landscape through scientific literature and assessment of competitor activities, and translate findings into new product and portfolio insights and recommendations.
- Make recommendations to management and work cross-functionally to understand all technical and non-technical roadblocks and resolve them. Participate in group and company activities to craft future common processes.
- Support translational and technology transfer activities as needed.
Your Background Should Include:
- Motivated by making the world a better place through science and technology, and wanting to be part of a team that makes this happen.
- Advanced scientific degree (MS, MD, or PhD) and/or MBA preferred.
- A minimum of 7 years of experience in product strategy, product management, product development or related work.
- Shown success leveraging scientific, technical and business expertise to advise product and portfolio strategy.
- Proven success taking new product concepts to the market.
- Solid understanding of cancer biology, oncology, diagnostics and drug development markets and competition.
- Strong understanding of diagnostic test development, including familiarity with assay development, analytical and clinical validation, quality requirements and regulatory processes, including FDA PMA, 510(k), CE mark, CLIA laboratories and laboratory testing services.
- Ability to collaborate and work cross-functionally to get results in a matrixed, fast-paced environment.
- Ability to effectively lead multiple competing priorities and negotiate scope, product features, and specifications across the organization.
- Strong interpersonal, organizational, analytical, communication and presentation skills.
- Willing and able to travel as needed.
GRAIL is an Equal Employment Office and Affirmative Action Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability or any other legally protected status. We will reasonably accommodate all individuals with disabilities so that they can participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.
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