Vice President, Product Strategy – Emerging Markets

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Florida.

📋 Description

• Identify and shape strategic opportunities, encompassing new products, material expansions, channel partnerships, and strategic alliances.

• Continuously monitor the healthcare market for emerging technologies, data sources, care models, and unmet needs.

• Investigate precision medicine opportunities that tackle under-testing, delayed diagnoses, and patient-treatment mismatches.

• Establish and nurture an active industry network through participation in events and conferences.

• Foster relationships with potential partners while maintaining awareness of developments in the healthcare market.

• Develop business cases that include market sizing, competitive landscape analysis, clinical feasibility assessments, and revenue pathways.

• Collaborate with executive leadership to assess the scientific validity and commercial potential of new concepts.

• Convert trends in healthcare, health data, and value-based care into specific opportunity areas.

• Analyze new business models, partner types, channel relationships, and avenues for growth.

• Create a pipeline of validated opportunities from the concept stage to investment-ready proposals.

⛳️ Requirements

• A minimum of 10 years' experience in product strategy, corporate strategy, venture/innovation, or new product development.

• At least 4 years in a senior leadership position focused on identifying and developing new opportunities.

• Bachelor’s Degree.

• Extensive experience in healthcare, particularly in payer, health plan, laboratory/diagnostics, value-based care, or health IT is strongly preferred.

• Proven track record of originating and validating new product, expansion, or partnership opportunities from inception, ideally within a regulated or clinically complex setting.

• Established professional network within healthcare or diagnostics, or demonstrated capability to rapidly build one.

• Strong quantitative and analytical abilities, including constructing market models and business cases using incomplete information.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to present new concepts to executive leadership and secure buy-in.

• Preferred: experience with diagnostic or laboratory benefit management, genomic testing, or precision medicine.

• Preferred: experience with electronic health record (EHR) systems or workflows, including clinical data integration, EHR-embedded decision support, or interoperability.

• Preferred: previous experience in corporate strategy, innovation, venture, or new business development at a health plan, diagnostics company, or health technology firm.

• Preferred: exposure to life sciences or pharmaceutical business models, such as market access, companion diagnostics, or real-world evidence.

• Preferred: experience with payment integrity and/or revenue cycle management (RCM).

• Comfortable operating in ambiguous situations with a strong inclination toward independent and self-directed exploration.

🏝️ Benefits

• Eligibility for remote work.

• Quarterly travel to Avalon’s corporate office in Tampa, Florida.