Medical Physicist - Product Management

Elekta AB; Atlanta (GA); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Elekta AB in Atlanta seeks a Medical Physicist to advance clinical development of precision radiation therapy solutions, translating customer needs into product improvements. You will work with customers, clinical teams and engineering to refine workflows and validate features.

The role requires a minimum bachelor’s in a relevant field, a Master’s preferred, at least five years in clinical radiation oncology, strong analytical skills, and willingness to travel domestically and internationally;

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant discipline is required; a Master’s is preferred.
• At least 5 years’ experience in clinical radiation oncology.
• Excellent English communication skills (written and verbal).
• Ability to travel domestically and internationally.

Responsibilities

• Provide in-depth insights into customer requirements, challenges and potential gains.
• Be the voice of the customer during definition of the vision, strategy and roadmaps, working collaboratively with product managers.
• Manage key customers, including Alpha and Beta sites and pilots; prepare and attend reviews and drive actions.
• Work with engineering and Product Management to define, test and refine new features based on real-world use of Elekta solutions.
• Define, analyze and maintain end-to-end workflows that can scale across multiple sites and geographies.
• Contribute to collection and analysis of customer feedback to drive product improvements.

Skills

English communication

Travel willingness

Cross-functional collaboration

Analytical thinking

Education

Bachelor’s degree in a relevant discipline

Master’s degree preferred

Job description

We don't just build technology. We build hope for everyone dealing with Cancer. Elekta is shaping the standard of care, together with healthcare providers, by developing precision radiation medicine that brings advanced radiotherapy into routine clinical practice. Elekta is supporting consistent, efficient and personalized care, addressing evolving patient needs. Through adaptive radiotherapy, precision treatment delivery and integrated workflows, Elekta supports care teams across a range of clinical settings. Each year more than 2 million patients are treated using Elekta solutions across over 130 countries. Elekta is headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden, with over 4,000 employees and offices in more than 40 countries. The company is listed on Nasdaq Stockholm. For more information, visit elekta.com.

Description

The Medical Physicist advances the early development and continuous improvements of Elekta solutions by translating customer needs, clinical expertise and real-world experience into product innovation. The role supports early-stage clinical developments and evaluations as well as customer testing activities, while gathering and leveraging customer feedback and clinical insights to drive product enhancements throughout the product lifecycle. As a radiation therapy subject matter expert, they advocate for clinical best practice, optimize solutions and workflows, and ensure the customer voice is embedded in product development and improvement.

Responsibilities

• Provide in-depth insights into customer requirements, challenges and potential gains.
• Be the voice of the customer during definition of the vision, strategy and roadmaps, working collaboratively with product managers.
• Manage key customers, working collaboratively with the Product Management team. This includes managing Alpha and Beta development sites, as well as supporting Pilots as needed. Prepare and attend review meetings, report progress and drive actions.
• Work closely with engineering and Product Management to define, test and refine new features and solutions based on real world use of Elekta solutions.
• Define, analyze and maintain end-to-end workflows (i.e. workflow measurements and insights, tumor specific workflows, emerging trends, existing treatments) that can scale across multiple sites and geographies.
• Assess performance of new developments through critical reviews, exploratory testing and early validation. Use metrics to compare the performance of current and new solutions; as well as against competitor solutions.
• Maintain cross portfolio alignment and knowledge in breadth and depth in order to strengthen the value propositions of the Elekta portfolio.
• Contribute to the collection, review and analysis of customer feedback, complaints to drive product improvements.
• Pro-actively disseminate clinical knowledge across Elekta to increase clinical awareness. Support complex or specialized projects, products or solutions.
• Support seamless go-to-market strategies (i.e. sales education, trade show support, demo scripts, demos, collation of customer feedback & proposal of proof points).
• Be a trusted advisor, effective communicator and clinical expert between the customer and internal stakeholders.
• Be a role model of Elekta Values.

Authorities

• Owns internal reports, such as workflows, exploratory testing reports & customer feedback.
• Provides customer reports, such as workflow assessments and evaluation reports.

Relevant Knowledge, skills and competencies

• A minimum of a bachelor's degree in a relevant discipline is required, and a Masters is preferred
• At least 5 years' experience in clinical radiation oncology.
• Ability to use subject matter expertise and knowledge to collaborate and influence across functions.
• Excellent analytical skills with the ability to understand and convey complex technical solutions that combines hardware, electronics and software.
• Persistent and persuasive behavior to own and drive cross-functional initiatives.
• Collaborative mindset, ability to act without formal authority across functions.
• Integrator of technical and commercial views.
• Excellent English communication skills (written and verbal).
• Ability to travel domestically and internationally.

About Elekta

As a leader in precision radiation therapy, Elekta is committed to ensuring every patient has access to the best cancer care possible. We openly collaborate with customers to advance sustainable, outcome-driven and cost-efficient solutions to meet evolving patient needs, improve lives and bring hope to everyone dealing with cancer. To us, it's personal, and our global team of 4,700 employees combine passion, science, and imagination to profoundly change cancer care. We don't just build technology, we build hope. Elekta is headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden, with offices in more than 120 countries and listed on Nasdaq Stockholm. For more information, visit elekta.com or follow us on LinkedIn, Glassdoor, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and YouTube.