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Senior Manager, Medical Affairs, LATAM
Location - Sao Paulo, Brazil
As Senior Manager, Medical Affairs, LATAM at Illumina, you will help shape and deliver our Medical Affairs strategy across Latin America, with primary responsibility for Brazil. You will translate regional and global priorities into practical plans that advance clinical evidence generation, scientific engagement, and healthcare professional education across oncology, reproductive health, rare and inherited diseases, infectious diseases, and emerging clinical applications. The role includes day-to-day guidance and oversight for a regional Medical Affairs colleague supporting Spanish-speaking Latin America.
Why you
You combine scientific credibility with the ability to turn strategy into action. You can lead through influence in a matrixed environment, build trusted relationships with external scientific stakeholders, and balance regional priorities across different markets and healthcare systems. You are comfortable moving between strategic planning and hands-on execution, and you bring the judgement required to support compliant, evidence-based scientific exchange.
Responsibilities include
- Drive implementation of the Medical Affairs strategy for Latin America in alignment with regional and global priorities.
- Lead Medical Affairs activities in Brazil and provide guidance to the Medical Affairs colleague covering Spanish-speaking Latin America.
- Coordinate regional initiatives across clinical evidence generation, scientific engagement, and medical education.
- Identify and qualify opportunities for investigator collaborations, clinical evidence generation, and healthcare professional education.
- Build and maintain relationships with key opinion leaders, healthcare institutions, academic centers, and professional societies.
- Support investigator-initiated studies, collaborative research, real-world evidence programs, and educational activities.
- Partner with R&D and global Medical Affairs to provide scientific insights relevant to Latin American markets.
- Collaborate with Account Management, Marketing, Market Access, Government Affairs, Customer Support, Regulatory, and other teams to support clinical implementation and adoption of Illumina technologies.
- Contribute to scientific communications, publications, congress activities, advisory boards, and educational materials.
- Provide regional scientific input into business planning and translate customer and market insights into actionable recommendations.
- Monitor scientific, clinical, competitive, and healthcare policy developments across Latin America.
- Ensure Medical Affairs activities comply with applicable regulatory, privacy, ethical, and company requirements.
Preferred background, skills and experience
- Solid Medical Affairs experience within diagnostics, genomics, biotechnology, pharmaceuticals, life sciences, or a related healthcare field.
- Strong scientific knowledge of molecular diagnostics, genomics, precision medicine, or related fields.
- Experience supporting clinical evidence generation, scientific engagement, healthcare professional education, or clinical implementation initiatives.
- Experience leading regional or cross-functional initiatives and providing guidance to colleagues in a matrixed organization.
- Experience working across multiple countries or diverse healthcare systems is preferred.
- Experience engaging key opinion leaders, healthcare providers, academic institutions, and cross-functional partners.
- Strong stakeholder management, communication, and influencing skills.
- Fluency in English and Portuguese; Spanish proficiency is strongly preferred.
- Ability to travel approximately 50-70% across Latin America and internationally.
Preferred education and experience
- PhD, MD, PharmD, MSc, or 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 field. Advanced degrees may be considered toward relevant experience.
- Previous formal people management experience is preferred, demonstrated leadership in matrix or project-based environments may substitute for formal management experience.
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