Medical Affairs Manager

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Colombia, +1 more country.

📋 Description

• Assist in the implementation of Medical Affairs priorities throughout Spanish-speaking Latin America, ensuring alignment with both regional and global strategies.

• Recognize and facilitate opportunities for generating clinical evidence, fostering investigator collaborations, and providing education for healthcare professionals.

• Establish and nurture scientific relationships with healthcare professionals, researchers, laboratory leaders, and key opinion leaders.

• Carry out regional clinical evidence-generation projects, investigator-initiated studies, and healthcare education programs.

• Collaborate with teams across Medical Affairs, R&D, Account Management, Marketing, Customer Support, Market Access, Government Affairs, Regulatory, and others to advance the clinical application of Illumina technologies.

• Provide scientific expertise in study design, protocol development, publication efforts, congress activities, advisory boards, and educational initiatives.

• Assist in the creation and distribution of scientific and clinical content that illustrates the clinical utility and implementation of Illumina solutions.

• Gather and relay customer insights, emerging clinical demands, and competitive intelligence to regional and global stakeholders.

• Maintain an in-depth understanding of advancements in clinical genomics, precision medicine, and healthcare systems throughout Latin America.

• Ensure compliance of Medical Affairs activities with relevant regulatory, privacy, ethical, and company standards.

⛳️ Requirements

• Proven experience in Medical Affairs, clinical research, scientific affairs, or healthcare professional education.

• Strong scientific foundation in molecular diagnostics, genomics, precision medicine, or a related field.

• Capability to independently oversee scientific projects and external collaborations.

• Experience in supporting the generation of clinical evidence, scientific engagement, or healthcare professional education.

• Background in engaging healthcare professionals, academic institutions, diagnostic laboratories, or research organizations.

• Exceptional communication, presentation, and relationship-building abilities.

• Proficient in functioning effectively within a cross-functional, matrixed, and multicultural environment.

• Strong analytical and problem-solving capabilities with a proactive, execution-oriented approach.

• Bilingual in English and Spanish; knowledge of Portuguese is an advantage.

• Willingness to travel approximately 50-70% across Latin America.

• A PhD, MD, PharmD, MSc, or an equivalent advanced degree in Life Sciences, Genetics, Molecular Biology, Medicine, Biomedical Sciences, or a related field is preferred.

• Extensive, relevant experience in Medical Affairs, clinical research, molecular diagnostics, genomics, biotechnology, or a related healthcare sector.

• Experience with next-generation sequencing and clinical genomics is highly desirable.

• This position is not eligible for visa sponsorship.

🏝️ Benefits

• Employee Resource Groups (ERG) that provide career development experiences, cultural awareness, and opportunities for social responsibility.

• An inclusive work environment.

• Commitment to equal opportunity employment.

• Background checks conducted following a conditional offer.

• Remote work model.