About the Role
FICUS Health is seeking an individual to lead the market-entry phase for Poland, validate the market, establish key stakeholder relationships, and secure initial partnerships. This role offers genuine country ownership, evolving from a senior individual contributor to full operational and P&L responsibility.
Responsibilities
- Validate market-entry assumptions and determine how FICUS should enter and scale in Poland.
- Analyze the market, competitive landscape, funding, reimbursement structures, procurement processes, and provider decision-making.
- Build relationships with rehabilitation centers, hospitals, healthcare groups, professional associations, payers, and other relevant stakeholders.
- Lead commercial conversations, negotiate, and close initial pilot partnerships.
- Secure lighthouse partnerships and develop a repeatable commercial approach.
- Navigate Poland’s regulatory, data-protection, procurement, and reimbursement requirements.
- Ensure market entry is compliant, clinically relevant, and commercially viable.
- Incorporate understanding of Polish rehabilitation workflows and provider needs into product development.
- Determine product adaptations and identify clinical, administrative, and operational processes for FICUS to address.
- Build the Polish market hands-on, supported by the founding and German teams.
- Build the local team and assume operational and financial responsibility, including team leadership, operations, and P&L, once the market is validated.
Requirements
- At least ten years of relevant experience in the Polish healthcare or rehabilitation market (e.g., leader in a healthcare provider, rehabilitation center, hospital group, healthcare consulting, market access, or commercial leadership at a digital-health company).
- Strong understanding of the Polish healthcare system, including provider decision-making, public funding, reimbursement structures, and procurement processes.
- Relevant experience in rehabilitation, hospital care, or an adjacent provider market.
- Established and relevant network with credibility to open doors across key Polish healthcare entities.
- 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 Polish and professional English; German is an advantage.
- Willingness to travel regularly within Poland and to Berlin.
Skills
- Market strategy
- Market entry
- Partnerships
- Sales
- Commercial negotiation
- Regulatory navigation
- Reimbursement
- Product development
- Market development
- Team building
- Operations management
- P&L management
- Strategic thinking
- Hands-on execution
Location
- Remote within Poland
- Berlin
Work Type
- Remote
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Senior individual contributor
- Leadership
Salary/Compensations
- Competitive base salary
- Equity participation
Benefits
- Flexible starting date
- Regular company and team events
About the Company
- FICUS Health is building the future of rehabilitation care with AI-powered software, enabling clinicians to focus on patients.
- The company is digitizing the healthcare sector with the speed and ambition of a high-growth technology company.
- Their AI-powered clinical documentation platform is used by rehabilitation clinics in Germany and is expanding into a broader rehabilitation operating system.
- The team is based at the Merantix AI Campus in Berlin, a concentrated AI ecosystem.
- FICUS Health is preparing to enter the Polish market and evolve into a rehabilitation operating system for Europe.
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.
