National Sales Director- Screening

Guardant Health; United States; Remote; USD 200,000 - 275,000; Full time

Job summary

Guardant Health in the United States is seeking a National Sales Senior Director to lead the primary care sales leadership and a growing team. You will hire, coach, and develop leaders, shaping planning, budgets, and execution to drive adoption of Guardant’s early cancer CRC screening test.

You will influence brand strategy, analyze market trends, and ensure compliant, field-based execution while traveling up to 75% as needed.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of high performance sales leadership experience.
• Experience building and leading large sales organizations (250+), with hiring top talent.
• Proven success embedding products into routine patient care through health system relationships.
• Strong strategic account planning and market analysis capabilities.
• Willingness to travel up to 75%.

Responsibilities

• Hire, lead, and develop a leadership team to build a customer facing structure to support launch of Guardant’s cancer screening test for Colorectal Cancer.
• Lead team leaders across customer facing activities, account management and direct to HCP promotion.
• Lead the development and implementation of comprehensive business plans including budgets, territory management and goal setting.
• Inform strategies by analyzing the competitive landscape and provide customer feedback to GH leadership.
• Lead and manage excellence in execution of brand strategies across primary care teams through field work days and metrics reviews.
• Meet with key targeted KOLs and engage customers to support sales objectives.
• Work with multiple departments to ensure support for customer facing teams, including IT, finance, marketing, sales ops, training, legal.
• Be a champion for compliance and develop partnerships essential at the field level.
• Lead with a strategic mindset focused on patient first, performance, and organizational growth.
• Represent Guardant Health values to internal and external stakeholders.

Skills

Sales leadership

Team leadership

Healthcare payor knowledge

Remote management

Travel flexibility

Education

BS in life science / biology / business / marketing

MS / MBA preferred

Job description

Company Description

Guardant Health is a leading precision oncology company focused on guarding wellness and giving every person more time free from cancer. Founded in 2012, Guardant® is transforming patient care and accelerating new cancer therapies by providing critical insights into what drives disease through its advanced blood and tissue tests, real-world data and AI analytics. Guardant tests help improve outcomes across all stages of care, including screening to find cancer early, monitoring for recurrence in early-stage cancer, and treatment selection for patients with advanced cancer. For more information, visit guardanthealth.com and follow the company on LinkedIn, X (Twitter) and Facebook.

Role Overview

The National Sales Senior Director is a key leadership position on the Screening Team, responsible for leading the primary care sales leadership and sales team. This position reports directly into the Vice President of Screening Sales. The National Sales Director will lead the customer facing activity that will drive the adoption of our early cancer CRC screening test with primary care physicians and a selection of other targeted customers. The role will be responsible for hiring, coaching and developing sales leaders who will hire and lead a team of sales professionals who focus on primary care physicians. This role will help build out the Screening Team, shape culture, and inspire a team to bring Guardant’s early cancer CRC screening test to adoption and guideline-driven use. Works with internal stakeholders to develop content for sales training, provides input and helps shape the planning and agendas for quarterly/annual planning meetings, and works closely with sales operations to ensure effective execution in the field. Consistently evaluates and exceeds execution metrics, sales trends and market analysis which leads to clear tactical direction that drives results. Identifies areas of development for the sales team and has demonstrated the capacity to build a team and develop a budget/resourcing plan to support the needs of the business.

Responsibilities

• Hire, lead, and develop a leadership team that will build a customer facing structure to support launch of Guardant’s cancer screening test for Colorectal Cancer
• Lead team leaders across customer facing activities, account management and direct to HCP promotion
• Lead the development and implementation of comprehensive business plans that will be inclusive of budgets, territory management and goal setting that supports achievement of business objectives
• Work with Screening internal stakeholders to inform and shape brand strategy and tactical execution plans to support brand objectives
• Inform strategies by continually analyzing the competitive landscape and environment to determine trends and provide customer feedback to GH leadership
• Lead and manage excellence in execution of brand strategies across primary care customer facing teams through field work days with sales people, assessment of sales force selling skills, analysis of execution metrics, sales results and customer feedback
• Meet with key targeted KOL’s and engage key customers as needed to support sales objectives
• Work effectively with individuals across multiple departments to ensure support for customer facing teams including but not limited to IT, finance, marketing, sales ops, training, legal.
• Work closely with the Screening Key Account Management team to ensure local MSA pull through and synergies.
• Be a champion for compliance and create a culture of compliance throughout all customer facing activity by developing and managing phlebotomy partnership that are imperative to succeed at the field level.
• Lead with a strategic mindset that is guided by putting patients first, a relentless focus on performance, elevating engagement across assigned Area and Screening Sales Leadership Team and helping an organization conquer cancer.
• Embrace, embody and represent the Guardant Health company values at all times to external and internal constituents

Experience

• 7+ Years of demonstrated above-average performance, with at 4+ years in a 2nd line sales leadership role, in Pharmaceuticals, Lab, Hospital or Diagnostics, preferably in the primary care setting
• Experience developing and leading within large sales organizations (250+), building teams and hiring top talent
• Success working with health systems, integrated delivery networks and large independent practices to embed products into routine patient care is preferred
• Demonstrated ability to effectively build and execute against strategic account plans
• Deep understanding of the payor and reimbursement environment in the primary care setting
• Ability to work independently, communicate proactively, manage multiple projects and prioritize daily tasks while managing critical deadlines
• Ability to handle sensitive information and maintain a very high level of confidentiality
• Ability to develop and utilize cross-functional relationships to facilitate the accomplishment of work goals and objectives.
• Previous experience managing remote teams
• Ability to travel up to 75% of the time

Education

B.S. in life science, biology, business or marketing is ideal and advanced degree preferred (MS, MBA)

AI & Digital Fluency

Demonstrate curiosity, sound judgment, and the ability to critically evaluate and responsibly leverage AI-enabled tools in accordance with company policies, ethical standards, and regulatory requirements to improve the efficiency, effectiveness, and quality of work.

Hybrid Work Model

This section is applicable to onsite employees who are eligible for hybrid work location as specified by management and related policies. Guardant has defined days for in-person/onsite collaboration and work-from-home days for individual-focused time. All U.S. employees who live within 50 miles of a Guardant facility will be required to be onsite on Mondays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays. We have found aligning our scheduled in-office days allows our teams to do the best work and creates the focused thinking time our innovative work requires. At Guardant, our work model has created flexibility for better work-life balance while keeping teams connected to advance our science for our patients.

Compensation

Primary Location: Remote - Open Position (USA)

Primary Location Base Pay Range: $200,000 - $275,000

Other US Location(s) Base Pay Range: $200,000 - $275,000

If the role is performed in Colorado, the pay range for this job is: $200,000 - $275,000

Other Requirements

Employee may be required to lift routine office supplies and use office equipment. Majority of the work is performed in a desk/office environment; however, there may be exposure to high noise levels, fumes, and biohazard material in the laboratory environment. Ability to sit for extended periods of time.

Guardant Health is committed to providing reasonable accommodations in our hiring processes for candidates with disabilities, long-term conditions, mental health conditions, or sincerely held religious beliefs. If you need support, please reach out to [e-mail]

A background screening including criminal history is required for this role. GH will consider qualified applicants with criminal arrest or conviction histories in a manner consistent with applicable law including but not limited to the LA County Fair Chance Policies and the Fair Chance Act (Gov. Code Section 12952).

Equal Opportunity Employer

Guardant Health is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability. All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

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