Copy of Country Medical Lead, Italy

**Company Description**
Guardant Health is a leading precision oncology company focused on helping conquer cancer globally through use of its proprietary tests, vast data sets and advanced analytics. The Guardant Health oncology platform leverages capabilities to drive commercial adoption, improve patient clinical outcomes and lower healthcare costs across all stages of the cancer care continuum. Guardant Health has commercially launched Guardant360®, Guardant360 CDx, Guardant360 TissueNext, Guardant360 Response, and GuardantOMNI® tests for advanced stage cancer patients, and Guardant Reveal for early-stage cancer patients. The Guardant Health screening portfolio, including the Shield test, aims to address the needs of individuals eligible for cancer screening.
**Job Description** 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 Health’s products.

The Country Medical Lead will co-develop 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 community-based 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 investigator-initiated 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 on-site 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 investigator-initiated, multicenter studies that expand our