Patient Coordinator

Natera
United States
RemoteCareer-pivot friendly

Who this role is best for

Aimed at mid-level professionals with sales and customer support experience who can manage patient relationships and business systems in a remote US-based setting.

Best fit for

  • Candidates with dual experience in call centers and sales, especially those familiar with healthcare logistics.
    — “Minimum of 2 years of Call Center experience in an inbound and outbound capacity.”
  • Candidates with a background in medical or biological sciences who can educate patients on genetic testing technology.
    — “Ability to relate and educate our technology to potential patients.”

Things to consider

  • Must complete HIPAA and security training within the first 30 days of employment.
    — “Employee must complete training relating to HIPAA/PHI privacy, General Policies and Procedure Compliance training and security training as soon as possible but not later than the first 30 days of hire.”
  • Role involves handling sensitive patient information, requiring strict adherence to privacy protocols.
    — “This role works with PHI on a regular basis both in paper and electronic form.”

How to stand out

  • Highlight experience in managing patient relationships and coordinating logistics in your resume.
    — “Assess the needs of patients with a focus on customer support, coordination of logistics, and problem solving.”
  • Emphasize your ability to advocate for patients while aligning with business goals.
    — “The Patient Coordinator will accomplish this by being the patient advocate within Natera.”
  • Showcase your proficiency with data tools like Salesforce and QlikView in your application materials.
    — “Help manage our business system tools (e.g. QlikView, Salesforce).”
  • Demonstrate strategic thinking and a team-first attitude in your interview responses.
    — “Ability to think strategically as well as execute tactically.”
  • Demonstrate your capacity to work independently and collaboratively through examples in your resume.
    — “Self-motivation, with the desire and capacity to work both independently and collaboratively.”
Pace · Fast PacedCollaboration · HighAutonomy · MediumDecision Impact · Team

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What success looks like

  • maintain and support existing customers
  • increase revenue and drive market development
  • manage business system tools
Typical background
call center experiencesales experiencemedical or biological sciences background

Skills & requirements

Required

Customer SupportSalesMedical KnowledgeCommunicationProblem SolvingData AnalysisProject Management

Preferred

Medical Or Biological Sciences

Stack & domain

MS ExcelLeadershipCommunicationProblem SolvingCustomer SupportTeam First AttitudeQuantitative SkillsSelf-motivationOrganizational SkillsOral & Presentation SkillsHealthcare

About the role

Original posting from Natera via Greenhouse

POSITION SUMMARY:

The role of Patient Coordinator will be central to the success of the Signatera product line.  This position will be focused on growing the relationship between Natera and its patients to ensure timely management of testing.  Core responsibilities include collaborating with Nurse Coordinators to increase revenue and drive market development through direct sales by being the key contact for patient needs.  The Patient Coordinator will accomplish this by being the patient advocate within Natera.

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES:

Work with assigned Nurse Coordinator to maintain & support existing customers.

Assess the needs of patients with a focus on customer support, coordination of logistics, and problem solving.

Maintain and support a service-oriented relationship with patients

Ensure all data and analysis requests from different parts of the organization are addressed in a timely manner.

Help manage our business system tools (e.g. QlikView, Salesforce)

Identify, nurture and grow patient relationship in order to influence and schedule ongoing testing.

Performs other duties as assigned.

This role works with PHI on a regular basis both in paper and electronic form and have access to various technologies to access PHI (paper and electronic) in order to perform the job.

Employee must complete training relating to HIPAA/PHI privacy, General Policies and Procedure Compliance training and security training as soon as possible but not later than the first 30 days of hire.

Must maintain a current status on Natera training requirements.

QUALIFICATIONS:

Minimum of 2 years of Call Center experience in an inbound and outbound capacity.

Minimum of 2 years of sales experience 

Background in medical or biological sciences preferred

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, AND ABILITIES:

Outgoing personality with excellent oral & presentation skills.

Ability to think strategically as well as execute tactically

Emphasis on competitive analysis and team first attitude.

Ability to relate and educate our technology to potential patients

Strong quantitative and MS Excel skills

Self-motivation, with the desire and capacity to work both independently and collaboratively

Must act with a sense of urgency

Excellent organizational and communication skills (written and verbal)

OUR OPPORTUNITY

Natera™ is a global leader in cell-free DNA (cfDNA) testing, dedicated to oncology, women’s health, and organ health. Our aim is to make personalized genetic testing and diagnostics part of the standard of care to protect health and enable earlier and more targeted interventions that lead to longer, healthier lives.

The Natera team consists of highly dedicated statisticians, geneticists, doctors, laboratory scientists, business professionals, software engineers and many other professionals from world-class institutions, who care deeply for our work and each other. When you join Natera, you’ll work hard and grow quickly. Working alongside the elite of the industry, you’ll be stretched and challenged, and take pride in being part of a company that is changing the landscape of genetic disease management.

WHAT WE OFFER

Competitive Benefits - Employee benefits include comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life and disability plans for eligible employees and their dependents. Additionally, Natera employees and their immediate families receive free testing in addition to fertility care benefits. Other benefits include pregnancy and baby bonding leave, 401k benefits, commuter benefits and much more. We also offer a generous employee referral program!

For more information, visit www.natera.com.

Natera is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to ensuring a diverse and inclusive workplace environment, and welcome people of different backgrounds, experiences, abilities and perspectives. Inclusive collaboration benefits our employees, our community and our patients, and is critical to our mission of changing the management of disease worldwide.

All qualified applicants are encouraged to apply, and will be considered without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, age, veteran status, disability or any other legally protected status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with applicable laws.

If you are based in California, we encourage you to read this important information for California residents. 

Link: https://www.natera.com/notice-of-data-collection-california-residents/

Please be advised that Natera will reach out to candidates with a @natera.com email domain ONLY. Email communications from all other domain names are not from Natera or its employees and are fraudulent. Natera does not request interviews via text messages and does not ask for personal information until a candidate has engaged with the company and has spoken to a recruiter and the hiring team. Natera takes cyber crimes seriously, and will collaborate with law enforcement authorities to prosecute any related cyber crimes.

For more information:

  • BBB announcement on job scams 
  • FBI Cyber Crime resource page 

Source: Natera careers (Greenhouse)

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