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Director, CDx & Clinical Trial Portfolio Management

Natera · US Remote · Remote

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About Natera

Dedicated to oncology, women’s health, and organ health. Natera’s cell-free DNA tests help protect health and inform more personalized decisions about care. Backed by Lightspeed and Sequoia.

About the role

We are seeking an experienced Director, CDx & Clinical Trial Portfolio Management to lead portfolio management across the growing pharma CDx partnership portfolio and establish a scalable PMO portfolio-management capability for clinical-trial opportunities, including early intake and triage of incoming opportunities to identify non-standard requirements, feasibility, resource and capacity needs, dependencies, cost and required PM support.

What they're looking for

  • Deep understanding of the CDx/IVD development lifecycle, including development, analytical and clinical validation, regulatory strategy and submission, design transfer, and commercialization considerations
  • Demonstrated experience evaluating and operationalizing new CDx opportunities, including scope, feasibility, timelines, costing/budgeting, resource planning, and capacity assessment
  • Experience managing across a portfolio of programs or partnerships and identifying cross-program dependencies, resource conflicts, portfolio risks, and tradeoffs
  • Significant experience working directly with pharmaceutical partners and senior/executive internal and external stakeholders
  • Demonstrated ability to work across Business Development, Product, Clinical, Regulatory, R&D, Finance, Operations, Software/Bioinformatics, and other cross-functional organizations
  • Experience establishing scalable program- and portfolio-management frameworks, governance, and operating processes
More about this role

We are seeking an experienced Director, CDx & Clinical Trial Portfolio Management to lead portfolio management across the growing pharma CDx partnership portfolio and establish a scalable PMO portfolio-management capability for clinical-trial opportunities, including early intake and triage of incoming opportunities to identify non-standard requirements, feasibility, resource and capacity needs, dependencies, cost and required PM support.

This individual will work at the intersection of IVD/CDx Program and Portfolio leadership, Product, Business Development, Alliance Management, Finance, Clinical Trial Services, Development Program Management, and cross-functional development teams.

The role will provide the portfolio-management expertise needed to evaluate new opportunities, assess feasibility and true cost-to-deliver, understand resource and capacity requirements, identify cross-program dependencies and tradeoffs, and translate strategic priorities and external commitments into executable programs.

The Director will establish scalable portfolio-management frameworks, governance, and forward-looking resource and capacity planning across the portfolio and will build and lead the...

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