Senior Manager, Scientific Affairs Life Sciences

Medical Affairs Manager, Oncology

Employment Type: Full-time Location Type: Remote (Candidates across the U.S. considered) Travel: <20%

Position Overview

Tempus AI is seeking a passionate and experienced Medical Affairs professional in oncology to join our high-performing Scientific Affairs team. This role is crucial for supporting the commercial growth objectives of our Life Sciences business development segment. The ideal candidate will have experience in both therapeutics and diagnostics, with excellent communication skills to educate internal and external stakeholders on the application of Tempus' NGS and multi-omics offerings to pharmaceutical development programs, including companion diagnostic development. This position reports to the Senior Director, Medical Affairs.

Responsibilities

• Scientific Expertise: Function as an internal scientific/technical expert for all Tempus oncology test offerings.
• Content Development: Contribute to the development of scientifically/technically accurate and comprehensive marketing messages and collateral for external and internal stakeholders, including biopharma partners and internal commercial teams.
• Promotional Content Review: Review and approve Life Science Marketing / Strategic Operations promotional content, outreaches, training materials, and slide decks.
• Medical Support: Provide strategic and tactical medical support and education to the Life Sciences Business Development Team, focusing on incorporating Tempus oncology tissue NGS, liquid biopsy (ctDNA), and multi-omics test offerings into pharmaceutical drug trials.
• Market Intelligence: Maintain current market intelligence on new and existing competitor products to identify opportunities for pharma customer engagements based on anticipated NGS and multi-omics testing needs for clinical trials in major cancer types (e.g., lung, breast, colorectal, pancreatic, and prostate cancer).
• Pipeline Analysis: Support profiling and analysis of pharmaceutical company pipelines and key scientific trends in molecular diagnostics influencing drug development programs.
• Client Engagement: Provide clinical and scientific perspectives in pharmaceutical client engagement meetings, delivering medical presentations as needed to support Tempus tests.
• Collaboration: Network with key internal stakeholders in clinical development, translational science, medical affairs, and business development working on oncology pipeline/development strategies to identify collaboration opportunities.
• Education: Identify opportunities to close education gaps for internal pharma business development and account management teams.
• Medical Information: Respond promptly and accurately to internal medical information requests from Life Sciences account directors regarding Tempus testing and technologies.
• Congress Support: Attend key oncology clinical and scientific congresses to support potential pharmaceutical clients and the Medical Affairs team's coverage of high-impact abstracts, posters, and oral presentations.

Required Skills

• Oncology Knowledge: Fundamental understanding of molecular oncology and related clinical patient management diagnostic algorithms.
• Detail Orientation: Keen attention to detail in the review and approval of medical/legal/regulatory content submissions.
• Communication Skills: Exceptional interpersonal communication and writing skills.
• Management Skills: Strong inter- and intradepartmental management skills, with the ability to educate and train.
• Drug Development: Extensive working knowledge of phase I-IV oncology drug development programs and processes.
• Public Speaking: Proficient public speaking skills and the ability to effectively communicate relevant scientific topics and concepts.
• Business Acumen: Strong business acumen with the ability to define strategies and manage operational plans to achieve strategic business objectives.
• Self-Starter: A self-starter with an ownership mindset, capable of working independently and delivering results.

About Tempus

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. We are passionate about precision medicine and advancing the healthcare industry.