Manager, Strategy & Operations

Passionate about precision medicine and advancing the healthcare industry?

Recent advancements in underlying technology have finally made it possible for AI to impact clinical care in a meaningful way. Tempus’ proprietary platform connects an entire ecosystem of real-world evidence to deliver real-time, actionable insights to physicians, providing critical information about the right treatments for the right patients, at the right time.

Our data accelerates the pace of innovation, empowering researchers to characterize disease, discover new opportunities, maximize clinical trial success, and ensure new therapies reach the right patients. As a Tempus employee you will have access to the world’s largest real-world patient clinical data set linked to transcriptomics and digital pathology. 

Strategy & Operations Manager - Real World Data Organization

We are looking for a Strategy & Operations Manager to join our Real World Data organization. This individual will be a key member of our strategy and planning team involved in generating high quality structured clinical data across the company to accelerate the discovery of novel targets, predict the effectiveness of treatments, identify life-saving clinical trials, and diagnose disease earlier.

Responsibilities

• Shape Team Strategy: Develop prioritization frameworks, implementation plans, and growth strategies for our most strategic workstreams. Understand how to balance short term and long term tradeoffs

• Create Executive Level Presentations: Build clear, informative presentations to summarize our team’s key initiatives, KPI performance, and strategic direction for executive leadership

• Build Demand & Capacity Forecast Models: Create forward looking demand and capacity models to guide our team’s strategy, growth, structure, and training

• Enable Data-Driven Decision Making: Analyze vast amounts of information to drive data-backed decisions and workstreams. Build key metrics and outline the logic required to develop them, create streamlined data pulls and reporting to understand business trends, provide workstream updates, and craft actionable recommendations

• Outline Project Costs & Tradeoffs: Analyze costs and tradeoffs associated with various project scenarios to maximize efficiency and ROI

• Own KPI Performance: Monitor performance to ensure successful implementation of key workstreams, including outlining project plans to achieve KPIs, establishing benchmarks/goals to clearly measure progress, and holding teams accountable 

• Investigate Data Discrepancies and Performance Gaps: Address deviations in metrics by identifying root causes and proposing solutions, such as logic edits to improve data accuracy or action plans to optimize workflows

• Collaborate Across Cross-Functional Teams: Partner with clinical, AI, finance, engineering, and operations teams, along with internal and external stakeholders, to ensure alignment and drive strategic initiatives

Base Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in operations, strategy, finance, consulting, project management, or other applicable fields

• Excellent Excel / Google Sheets and PowerPoint / Google Slides skills 

• Proficiency in or desire to learn SQL

• Proficiency in or desire to learn Tableau and/or Looker

• Bachelor's Degree

Preferred Qualifications

• Strong analytical skills and the ability to tackle problems logically; a data-driven approach to outline business problems, decision making, and sound business judgment to determine project performance and financial viability

• Strong project management skills; ability to bring order to ambiguous problems and help align internal and external partners through to execution

• Bias toward action and master simplifier - constantly pushing toward clarity and execution

• Phenomenal collaborator and someone who proactively partners across teams

• Self-motivated, able to work independently and possess strong organization and time management skills

• You take a creative approach to solving problems; you enjoy experimentation and are willing to take bold bets despite risk of failure

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