Senior Strategist/Director, Real-World Evidence Portfolio Strategy

Summary

Join Flatiron Health as a Real World Evidence (RWE) Senior Strategist/Director and help improve lives by learning from cancer patient experiences. This high-impact role involves collaborating with cross-functional stakeholders to evaluate growth opportunities, develop business cases for investment, and evolve the 4-year growth strategy. You will lead business case development for new RWE growth opportunities, build financial models, and maintain a current understanding of the oncology RWE market landscape. The role also includes supporting strategic and operational planning and mentoring junior hires. This high-visibility position offers opportunities to advance your business strategy experience and develop transferable skills for future leadership roles. The position is hybrid, allowing for a balance of work from home and office days.

Requirements

• You have a passion for advancing clinical care and research for cancer patients and a mission driven professional
• You are a collaborative problem-solver who values the opportunity to think strategically to identify areas for growth, yet are pragmatic to ensure those ideas have the best chance for reaching the market
• You're an independent, driven, strategic thinker with at least 4-6 years of experience driving strategic investment and prioritization decisions, leading business cases, and learning and keeping a pulse on the oncology healthcare and healthtech market
• You have prior experience critically evaluating business opportunities, performing market landscape assessments, and developing business and/or investment cases for a product or services oriented health tech company or consultancy
• You are deeply familiar with Real World Data and/or digital health space and players
• You are deeply familiar with biopharma industry dynamics (e.g., biopharma value chain) and how data is used across the drug development life cycle
• You have had success in high-visibility roles that have required a large amount of cross-functional collaboration and have developed specific skills to navigate and coordinate multiple stakeholders by influencing without direct authority
• You enjoy finding the right people with the right expertise to build high functioning teams to tackle business challenges
• You are self-motivated and are able to effectively prioritize multiple competing workstreams with competing deadlines
• You know when to and are not hesitant to ask for help!
• You have experience in building something new, are comfortable with the inherent ambiguity that entails, and have examples of taking disciplined risk and learning from failure
• You have exceptional written, presentation, and communication skills at all levels with an ability to be decisive and provide clear, data driven recommendations to senior leaders

Responsibilities

• Growth Opportunity Business Casing - Lead the development of business cases for new RWE growth opportunities supporting the expansion of Flatiron’s data and analytics ecosystem
• Financial Modeling & Forecasting - Working with Strategic Finance, you’ll build robust financial models to support investment decisions as well as help evolve of long-range financial forecasting for the RWE business
• Market Landscape - Continually evolve Flatiron’s unified view of the oncology RWE market landscape including staying current on RWE trends, competitive landscape, and emerging opportunities in oncology and digital health
• Strategic Planning - Support the Head of RWE Portfolio Strategy and RWE GM with annual strategic and operational planning for the RWE business unit as well as take on ad hoc special projects supporting the GM and Executive Team
• Team Leadership (Future) - While initially an individual contributor role, you will have the opportunity to mentor and lead junior hires as the team grows

Preferred Qualifications

• You have prior experience working in the health tech space in a client facing role -OR- in a Product Development role
• You have prior experience in the field of oncology
• Advanced Degree (MA/MS, MPH, MBA, MD, or PhD)

Benefits

• Work/life autonomy via flexible work hours and flexible paid time off
• Comprehensive compensation package
• 401(k) contribution to help you reach your retirement planning goals
• Financial health resources including 1:1 financial advice
• Mental well-being tools and services
• Parental benefits and policies including family-building care and generous leave
• Path to parenthood programs supporting fertility, adoption and surrogacy
• Travel support for safe healthcare services