Role Overview:The Director, Global Oncology Patient Advocacy will lead the development and execution of Immatics' global oncology patient advocacy strategy to ensure the patient perspective is meaningfully integrated across product lifecycle (discovery, development, and commercialization). This role establishes global patient advocacy standards, drives strategic alignment and best practices, and builds capabilities that embed patient-centered approaches throughout the organization. The Director, Global Oncology Patient Advocacy will serve as a key strategic partner to cross-functional teams to incorporate patient insights and patient experience data as well as foster strong relationships with global patient advocacy organizations and patient communities to ensure patient needs, priorities, and perspectives are reflected in Immatics' oncology strategy and activities.
Reports to: Vice President, Medical Affairs
Location: Remote
Salary Range: $200,000 - $235,000
Basic Qualifications:- Bachelor's Degree in life sciences, healthcare, public health, social sciences, or related discipline required.
- 10 years of experience in patient advocacy, healthcare, biotechnology, pharmaceutical industry, clinical development, medical affairs, public health, or related fields required
Preferred Qualifications:- Advanced Degree (MPH, APRN, PharmD or PhD) preferred
- Demonstrated experience developing and executing global patient advocacy, patient engagement, or patient-centered strategies
- Experience and existing relationships with patient advocacy organizations, patient communities, and external stakeholders on a global scale preferred
- Experience leading cross-functional initiatives and influencing stakeholders across regions and organizational levels
- Excellent interpersonal, oral and written communication skills including strong presentation skills; competent and confident in presenting to senior leadership as well as in lay terms to appropriately engage with patients and advocates
- Demonstrated experience incorporating patient perspectives into clinical development, study design, protocol development, patient experience initiatives, or evidence generation activities
In this Role You Will: Amplify the Patient Voice- Partner with Clinical Development, Clinical Sciences, Medical Affairs, and HEOR/Evidence Generation teams to integrate patient perspectives into development programs.
- Facilitate patient and patient advocacy group input into clinical development plans, study concepts, protocol design, endpoint selection, informed consent materials, recruitment and retention strategies, and patient experience initiatives.
- Identify opportunities to improve study feasibility, patient experience, recruitment, retention, and diversity through meaningful patient engagement.
- In close collaboration with Commercial and cross-functional stakeholders, support launch readiness and post-launch patient access initiatives across Authorized Treatment Centers (ATCs), including evaluating existing patient support service models, identifying gaps in patient resources, and informing strategies to optimize the patient experience throughout the treatment journey.
Global Patient Advocacy Strategy & Leadership- Develop and execute the global patient advocacy strategy in alignment with corporate and medical affairs objectives.
- Lead initiatives that promote knowledge sharing, capability building, and adoption of patient-centric approaches across the organization.
- Serve as a global subject matter expert on patient advocacy and patient engagement
External Partnerships & Strategic Engagement- Develop and maintain strategic, compliant, long-term partnerships with global patient advocacy organizations and patient communities.
- Identify opportunities for collaboration that advance shared goals and improve outcomes for patients.
- Represent Immatics in external patient advocacy forums, partnerships, and initiatives.
- Monitor external trends, evolving patient needs, and advocacy landscape developments and translate insights into actionable recommendations.
Patient Insights & Organizational Impact- Ensure patient insights are systematically gathered, synthesized, and communicated to enable organizational decision-making.
- Partner with cross-functional stakeholders to incorporate patient perspectives into medical strategies, evidence plans, educational initiatives, and disease area priorities.
- Promote patient-centric culture and understanding throughout the organization through education, communication, and capability-building initiatives.
- Measure and communicate the impact of patient advocacy activities on business objectives and patient outcomes.
Travel Requirements:- Ability to travel up to 40% of the time
Qualified candidates will participate in a structured interview process, which includes: - An initial recruiter phone screen (conducted via video)
- A recruiter-facilitated introduction and interview with the hiring leader and key stakeholders (via video)
- A final-stage interview, which may include an in-person meeting at our U.S. Headquarters in Houston, TX
What do we offer? At Immatics, we believe in investing in our team's health, safety and well-being. Here's what you can expect if you join Immatics:
Comprehensive Benefits: - Competitive rates for Health, Dental, and Vision Insurance
- 4 weeks of vacation, granted up front each year and prorated for first and last year of employment.
- 12 company paid holidays
- 7 days of sick time
- 100% employer-paid life insurance up to at 1x annual salary, up to one hundred thousand dollars
- 100% employer-paid short- and long-Term disability coverage
- 401(k) with immediate eligibility and company match...
- The company will match 100% of your contributions up to 3% of your base salary for the first two years of employment, 4% for years 2-3 of employment, and up to 5% of your salary from the fourth year onward of continued employment.
- Partially paid parental leave for eligible employees.
- Additional voluntary employee-paid benefits and services, including accident, hospital indemnity, and critical illness insurance, as well as identity theft protection and pet insurance.
