Vice President, Product Strategy – Emerging Markets

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

📋 Description

• Continuously monitor the healthcare landscape, including emerging technologies, data sources, care models, and unmet needs, to pinpoint opportunities for new products, enhancement of existing offerings, or strategic partnerships and channel expansions.

• Investigate precision medicine opportunities that address issues such as under-testing, delayed diagnoses, and misalignments between patients and appropriate therapies.

• Establish and sustain an active network within the industry through participation in events and conferences.

• Foster relationships with potential partners while staying informed about trends in the healthcare market.

• Create business cases that encompass market sizing, competitive landscape evaluations, clinical feasibility studies, and a viable revenue generation pathway.

• Collaborate with executive leadership to rigorously evaluate new concepts for both scientific validity and commercial potential before proposing investment.

• Keep an updated perspective on healthcare, health data, and value-based care markets, translating trends into tangible opportunity areas.

• Assess new business models and partnerships that could enhance Avalon’s value beyond its existing client base.

⛳️ Requirements

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

• A minimum of 4 years in a senior leadership role focused on identifying and cultivating new opportunities.

• Bachelor’s Degree.

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

• Proven track record of initiating and validating new product, expansion, or partnership opportunities from the ground up, ideally within a regulated or clinically complex context.

• A well-established professional network within healthcare or diagnostics, or the ability to develop one swiftly.

• Strong quantitative and analytical skills, with the capability to construct market models and business cases using incomplete data.

• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills.

• Experience presenting innovative concepts to executive leadership and garnering support.

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

• Familiarity with electronic health record (EHR) systems or workflows is preferred.

• Prior experience in corporate strategy, innovation, venture, or new business development at a health plan, diagnostics company, or health technology firm is preferred.

• Exposure to life sciences or pharmaceutical business models is preferred.

• Experience with payment integrity and/or revenue cycle management (RCM) is preferred.

• Ability to navigate ambiguity and a strong inclination towards independent, self-directed exploration.

🏝️ Benefits

• Eligibility for remote work.

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