Head of Digital Neurology

London

BCGDV is working on a new digital offering that is part of a medtech healthcare company’s digital innovation business unit. This business unit will focus on creating new digital products and platforms that transform the lives of patients. This venture will be the first product within the digital innovation unit. This product will be a next generation digital platform aimed at a neurological disorder to empower patients to better understand their condition, have better conversations with their doctor and ultimately achieve better health outcomes. The new venture has plans to grow aggressively to engage patient and health care professionals, with an initial focus in the US market. The business will scale aggressively in the next few years, and will be based in London, England, with international travel, up to a third travel to the US.

Due to the planned growth of our venture, we are seeking a world class Head of Digital Neurology to set the vision and overall expansion strategy, recruit and lead the Digital Neurology team and oversee all its activities. This is part of a board sponsored multi-year investment.

This is a unique opportunity for an exceptional senior business builder with a background in both successfully scaling consumer and tech start-ups and managing corporate stakeholders, to provide leadership to this new product team. Will report directly to the General Manager of the digital innovation business unit.

Leadership

• Lead with a strategic mindset while dealing with ambiguity and develop, nurture and realize business opportunities
• Deliver strategic leadership for defining the commercial path to growth and profitability of the business and the establishment of an effective growth process and infrastructure
• Work closely with your Leads in Engineering, Sales & Marketing, Product, and Design to set the vision of the overall strategy; including defining long-term goals and approaches
• Drive growth, profitability, continuous improvement and company-wide value.
• Driving product market fit while managing competitive positioning and threats in the marketplace, financial viability, & strategic priorities.

Execute with excellence

• Align resources to achieve key business priorities, including working with corporate parent to manage resources
• Drive day to day operations.
• Manage regulatory complexity in the healthcare space
• Proactively mitigate business, operational & governance risks.
• Continue to develop and test the business model
• Provide expert guidance to all functional areas, including engineering, product/design, sales & marketing.
• Be a sophisticated relationship manager, with the ability to manage multiple internal and external stakeholders

Build great teams

• Proven track record of scaling hypergrowth teams of up to 20-25 people
• Strong team player
• Attract, retain & develop world-class talent
• Cultivate a high-performing, agile culture that becomes beacon for the rest of the organisation

Background

• Experience working in MedTech / medical devices / software-as-a-medical-device (SaMD) / health services tech, particularly in regulated medical environment
• Experience leading and scaling at least one high growth venture capital backed start-up in C-Suite role and within business unit of a large corporate, at Director level or higher
• Experience with sales and/or marketing in US healthcare (working with payer, provider, patients and/or patient groups) or a background more heavily involved in product
• MBA strongly preferred
• Tech/Digital/Start Up and Agile background preferred
• Experience working closely with C-Suite of large corporate
• Proven commercial acumen and P&L responsibility
• Proven track record of building successful digital products and high calibre, multi-disciplinary teams from the ground up
• Digital health experience highly desirable e.g. digital therapeutics, electronic health record integration, telehealth
• US healthcare experience is highly desirable