Scientific Affairs Liaison

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.

Tempus, Inc. Is expanding our high-performing Scientific Affairs Liaison (SAL) Team to support the commercial customer focus and educational objectives of the company. This remote position will report to the Associate Director, Medical Affairs- Scientific Affairs Liaisons and will require <20% travel.  We are considering candidates residing across the US. 

Primary Responsibilities and Essential Duties

• Function as an internal scientific/technical expert with respect to all Tempus oncology test offerings
• Respond promptly and accurately to external medical information requests triaged by the customer success team
• Ability to identify internal education gaps with respect to Tempus new and existing oncology products, and facilitate closing those gaps via the development of educational presentations, live training modules and utilization of other training tools including videos and podcasts;
• Continuously update internal stakeholders on relevant medical and scientific knowledge as well as proactively developing market intelligence on existing competitor products and products in development.
• Ability to work effectively across multidisciplinary groups to provide prompt, accurate and comprehensive responses to complex medical/scientific inquiries from internal and external customers; 
• Comply with medical information standard work practices and procedures.
• Contribute to the development of  scientifically/technically accurate and comprehensive marketing messages/collateral for external and internal stakeholders (healthcare professionals, internal commercial teams, etc.); maintaining current market intelligence on new and existing competitor products.
• Attend appropriate scientific meetings to keep abreast of medical knowledge and maintain awareness of research activities and latest developments in cancer genomic profiling and therapeutics including competitive intelligence; synthesize conference learnings for presentation to internal teams

Required Skills 

• Fundamental understanding of the field of molecular testing and/or oncology; Oncology NCCN and ESMO guidelines.
• Exceptional interpersonal communication and writing skills;
• Public speaking skills and ability to effectively communicate relevant scientific topics and concepts to a broad range of audiences.
• Working knowledge of genomic laboratory developed testing (LDT); familiarity with CLIA-88’, CAP, Sunshine Act; FDA regulated diagnostic tests
• Strong inter- and intradepartmental navigation skills in a fast moving company environment;
• Ability to travel (<20%);
• Self-starter  with an ownership mindset able to work and deliver on tight timelines;
• An at-cause approach to problem solving.

Education and Experience

• Advanced scientific or medical degree (e.g. PhD, PharmD, MD, BSN, MSN, MS, MA, GC)
• Preferred: PhD, PharmD, GC.
• Experience with oncology diagnostics in biotech or pharmaceutical industries preferred;
• Experience in Medical Information preferred.