Senior Medical Director, Oncology and Genetics - Multiple Locations

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The UnitedHealthcare oncology and genetics line of service is charged with improving the affordability and quality of medical care in those medical disciplines.  This small entrepreneurial team of twelve individuals uses the company’s health care claims data, the medical literature, clinical experience and customer feedback to identify future programs.  The team is also accountable for post-deployment measurement of results. 
 
This position will provide the clinical support for these programs working closely with the existing program director and an oncology nurse.  Additional involvement in contracting strategy, customer relations, medical group relationships and professional society representation will be added to the portfolio of responsibilities as the candidate’s experience grows.   
 
Primary Responsibilities:

Clinical medicine

The Medical Director must have strong clinical skills 10+ years in medical oncology
Strategic thinking

Most of the problems facing this team are complex requiring inputs from multiple sources
The director must demonstrate the ability to envision creative, workable solutions
Quantitative analysis

The team often requires evaluation of data sets and/or development of research methods to evaluate a problem.
The Medical Director works with three experienced data analysts (two at the PhD level) who perform the technical data retrieval and analysis
This person must be able to direct the team as they work through hypothesis and problems and synthesize the results
Each project requires financial modeling to calculate the costs and returns of the programs
Director works with the financial experts on the team to assure model assumptions are accurate
Qualitative analysis and strategic problem solving

Many of the issues presented to the team require qualitative approaches with minimal data available
The director should be comfortable making decisions using input from subjective sources
Presentation ability

The director is the face to external and internal customers and must possess the ability to speak clearly on complex problems
Audience size ranges from small teams to more than 1,000.
Team worker and leader

The director is a potential candidate to succeed the program director
Leadership skills are essential for this succession
Leadership is assigned based on the nature of the project and the director must be able to function as a strong team participant as well
 
 

Required Qualifications: 

Practice experience

5+ years of clinical practice
Medical oncology is preferred, but will consider radiation oncology or surgical oncology 
Board certification in Oncology
5+ years of Executive Management

The candidate can demonstrate this management experience as the leader of a complex project (health services research, for example), a clinical manager of a large clinician group or a business manager for an organization
Genetics

Medical training in this field as part of the specialty training and active involvement in cancer genetics
5+ years of experience with Public presentations

Professional presentations at academic meetings or business presentations are acceptable
High level of proficiency with MS Word, Outlook, and Excel
Data analysis and interpretation experience and skills
Preferred Qualifications:

Masters of Business Administration, Health Services Administration or Public Health
Professional society leadership

Involvement as an elected officer or as the leader of an active committee within the professional society
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