About the Role
FICUS Health is seeking an individual to lead the Spanish market-entry phase, validate the market, establish key stakeholder relationships, and secure initial lighthouse partnerships. This role offers genuine country ownership, evolving from a senior individual contributor role reporting to the founding team to full operational and P&L responsibility for the Spanish business.
Responsibilities
- Validate market-entry assumptions and determine how FICUS should enter and scale in Spain.
- Analyze the market, competitive landscape, reimbursement structures, procurement processes, and provider decision-making.
- Build relationships with rehabilitation providers, hospital and clinic groups, professional associations, payers, and other relevant healthcare stakeholders.
- Lead commercial conversations, develop, negotiate, and close initial pilot partnerships.
- Secure lighthouse partnerships and translate early market experience into a repeatable commercial approach.
- Navigate Spain’s regulatory, data-protection, procurement, and reimbursement requirements.
- Ensure market entry is compliant, clinically relevant, and commercially viable.
- Contribute a deep understanding of Spanish rehabilitation workflows and provider needs to product development.
- Determine product adaptations and identify clinical, administrative, and operational processes for FICUS to address.
- Build the Spanish market hands-on, supported by the founding team and German teams.
- Build the local team and assume full operational and financial responsibility for Spain, including team leadership, operations, and P&L.
Requirements
- At least ten years of relevant experience in the Spanish healthcare or rehabilitation market (e.g., provider/clinic leadership, healthcare consulting, market access, digital-health commercial leadership).
- Strong understanding of the Spanish healthcare system and its national and regional decision-making structures.
- Relevant experience in rehabilitation, hospital care, or an adjacent provider market.
- Established and relevant network with credibility to open doors across key stakeholders in Spain.
- Track record of building new markets, business units, commercial operations, or partnership structures.
- Ability to operate effectively in ambiguous environments and create a playbook.
- Combination of strategic thinking and hands-on execution.
- Willingness and credibility to lead conversations, negotiate agreements, and build partnerships personally.
- Fluent Spanish and professional English; German is an advantage.
- Willingness to travel regularly within Spain and to Berlin.
Skills
- Market strategy
- Market entry
- Partnerships
- Sales
- Commercial negotiation
- Regulatory navigation
- Reimbursement analysis
- Product development input
- Team building
- Operations management
- P&L management
Location
- Remote within Spain
- Regular travel across Spain
- Travel to Berlin
Work Type
- Remote
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Senior individual contributor
- Leadership
- Operational and P&L responsibility
Salary/Compensations
- Competitive base salary
- Equity participation
Benefits
- Flexible starting date
About the Company
- FICUS Health is building the future of rehabilitation care with AI-powered software.
- The company is digitizing healthcare with the speed and ambition of a high-growth technology company.
- Their AI-powered clinical documentation platform is used by rehabilitation clinics in Germany.
- FICUS is evolving into an intelligent AI layer and rehabilitation operating system for European providers.
- The team is based at the Merantix AI Campus in Berlin, a concentrated AI ecosystem.
Equal Opportunity
- FICUS Health is an equal-opportunity employer and values diversity.
- They consider all applications equally regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, or gender identity.
- They strongly encourage individuals from groups traditionally underrepresented in tech to apply.
