Forus
Life Sciences Strategy Lead
New York office · Exec · Full-time
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 358 days ago
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About the role
- You will work directly with senior stakeholders, shape commercial strategy, influence product direction, and play a central role in expanding our business over time.
- This is a demanding role, with a high level of autonomy and responsibility.
- You will be expected to "act like an owner" and commit yourself to Forus' success.
Responsibilities
- We already support patients across more than 80% of ZIP codes and partner with 5 of the 10 largest biopharma companies in the world.
- We raised $160M+ from leading investors to build an exceptional team and unlock the full scale of the opportunity.
- You will own strategic relationships with life sciences partners, develop new opportunities for growth, and help define how we bring new products, services, and partnerships to market.
- Own the growth, strategy, and long-term success of a portfolio of our most important life sciences partnerships
- Develop a deep understanding of partner objectives and identify opportunities to expand relationships through new products, therapeutic areas, and commercial initiatives
- Lead complex, cross-functional initiatives that drive measurable impact for partners and contribute to company growth
- As a Life Sciences Strategy Lead, you will help build and scale one of the most important parts of Forus' business.
- Track record of moving quickly, finding shortcuts, and going to unreasonable lengths to deliver on goals
Requirements
- 2-10 years of experience working on a team that required structured problem-solving and executive engagement (e.g., consulting, business development, investing, business operations)
Compensation
- We provide competitive compensation with meaningful equity (for full-time employees).
Benefits
- Comfort working with data and technical teams (at minimum the role requires learning SQL and low-code tools)
- Fully covered medical, vision, and dental insurance.
- Memberships for One Medical, Talkspace, Teladoc, and Kindbody.
- Unlimited paid time off (PTO) and 16 weeks of parental leave.
- 401K plan setup, FSA option, commuter benefits, and DashPass.
Company info
- Forus is building an AI-powered network that connects doctors, pharmacies, payers, and biopharma to accelerate new science to patients.
- Our platform automates the complexity between a doctor prescribing a medicine and a patient starting treatment, including insurance coverage, financial assistance, and supply chain navigation. We provide this support free to doctors and patients, helping them get life-changing medicine faster, cheaper, and easier. The resulting network enables biopharma companies to design better research, launch new drugs more effectively, and invest in harder-to-treat conditions.
- Forus has exceptional product-market fit and is growing rapidly through organic adoption:
- Accelerating scale: We already support patients across more than 80% of ZIP codes and partner with 5 of the 10 largest biopharma companies in the world.
- Our platform automates the complexity between a doctor prescribing a medicine and a patient starting treatment, including insurance coverage, financial assistance, and supply chain navigation.
- We provide this support free to doctors and patients, helping them get life-changing medicine faster, cheaper, and easier.
- The resulting network enables biopharma companies to design better research, launch new drugs more effectively, and invest in harder-to-treat conditions.
- AI-native, durable model: Our business becomes stronger as AI improves, as every new doctor, patient, and partner makes the network more valuable.
- Backing to build for the long term: We raised $160M+ from leading investors to build an exceptional team and unlock the full scale of the opportunity.
- Our number one priority is scaling to market demand.
- We are looking for individuals who are high horsepower, high throughput, and hyper resourceful to help us increase capacity and grow.
- We move fast and need to move faster.
- If we succeed, science will be the only limit to medicine.
- All full-time roles are in person in New York.
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