(Sr) Associate, Strategy & Operations

Tempus AI, Inc.; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 70,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

Tempus AI, Inc. in Chicago is seeking an Associates level BD professional to support the business development team in securing partnerships with biopharma and academic accounts.

You will draft client proposals, coordinate across teams, and help execute go-to-market activities while building relationships and tracking KPIs. The role offers a pathway to growth within a fast-moving life sciences tech firm.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of pharma, biotech, or consulting experience with a track record of strong execution.
• Customer-facing experience, preferably in BD, client services, or consulting.
• Strong written communication skills, with experience drafting client-facing materials or proposals.
• Comfort operating in a fast-paced, ambiguous environment, managing shifting priorities and incomplete information across multiple concurrent projects.
• Preferred: Oncology, diagnostics, CDx, NGS, or multi-omics exposure.

Responsibilities

• Support BD team in developing partnership opportunities with biopharma and academic accounts.
• Draft and refine client-facing proposals, contracts, and written communications for Life Science Sequencing/CDx business.
• Execute commercial marketing activities including nurture campaigns, conferences/webinar planning, collateral, and website content.
• Source biotech and research targets by researching companies, institutions, contacts, assets, and pipeline areas.
• Conduct strategic and market analysis to support differentiators and marketing materials.
• Collaborate across commercial, medical, product, regulatory, and lab teams to implement go-to-market strategies.
• Identify opportunities to improve operational processes for customer engagement, outreach, retention, and KPI tracking.
• Report daily operational challenges with Operations, Account Management, Product & Engineering, and assist in testing new features.
• Coordinate and maintain relationships with operational stakeholders across partner organizations.
• Manage tracking, documentation, and execution of milestones for key strategic projects to bring new offerings to market.

Skills

Customer-facing experience

Strong written communication

Ability to manage shifting priorities

Exposure to oncology/diagnostics (pref

Education

BS/MS in life sciences (preferred)

Job description

Key Responsibilities

• Support Tempus' business development (BD) team in developing partnership opportunities with key biopharma and academic research accounts to advance client conversations.
• Draft and refine client-facing proposals, contracts, and written communications for the Life Science Sequencing/CDx business, working closely with the BD team to align materials with customer needs.
• Execute commercial marketing activities for the team, including organizing nurture campaigns, managing conference/webinar planning logistics, developing collateral, and maintaining website content.
• Source biotech and research customer targets by systematically researching companies, institutions, contacts, assets, and pipeline areas of interest.
• Conduct strategic and market analysis using pharma and competitive intelligence to support the identification of key differentiators and the refinement of marketing materials.
• Work collaboratively across commercial, medical, product, regulatory, and laboratory teams to help implement go-to-market strategies.
• Identify opportunities to improve operational processes for customer engagement, outreach, retention tactics, and track team KPI fulfillment.
• Partner with Operations, Account Management, Product & Engineering to report daily operational challenges, gather data for product enhancements, and assist in testing new features.
• Coordinate and maintain positive working relationships with operational stakeholders across partner organizations.
• Manage the tracking, documentation, and cross-functional execution of operational milestones for key strategic projects to help bring new offerings to market successfully.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of pharma, biotech, or consulting experience with a track record of strong execution.
• Customer-facing experience, preferably in BD, client services, or consulting.
• Strong written communication skills, with experience drafting client-facing materials or proposals.
• Comfort operating in a fast-paced, ambiguous environment, managing shifting priorities and incomplete information across multiple concurrent projects.
• Preferred: Exposure to oncology, diagnostics, CDx, NGS, or multi-omics a plus, but not required.
• B.S./M.S. in a life sciences field a plus, not required.

The Associates level in CHI: $70,000 - $85,000

The expected salary range may vary for other locations. Actual salary may vary based on qualifications and experience.

Tempus offers a full range of benefits, which may include incentive compensation, restricted stock units, medical and other benefits depending on the position.

We are an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

Tempus was founded in August of 2015 by Eric Lefkofsky, after his wife was diagnosed with Breast Cancer. Shortly after he founded the company in an effort to bring the power of technology and artificial intelligence to cancer care, he convinced Ryan Fukushima to join as the company’s first employee. Ryan and Eric began assembling a world class team, focused on building the first version of a platform capable of ingesting real time healthcare data in an effort to personalize diagnostics. We built the platform for oncology and have expanded it to neuropsychiatry, cardiology, infectious disease (through COVID), and radiology. Despite our rapid growth, our mission remains the same—to help make sure patients are on the right drug at the right time, so they can live longer and healthier lives. We’re looking for people who can change the world. Who question the status quo and don’t shy away from tough problems. For the builders who are never done building and the learners who are never done learning. We’re looking for passionate people with undying curiosity. Those who want to attack one of the most challenging problems mankind has ever faced. Head on.