Head of ALS | ELA; Specialized unit

Position: Head of ALS | ELA (Specialized unit)
This is one of those job opportunities that do not come up every day. And also, they are not for everyone.

If you are top talent, hands-on, analytical and people person, willing to work hard (with balance and flexibility) and learn a lot, this might be for you. If you are looking to grow (and are willing to make the effort it takes to grow) and care about social impact, this might be for you.

About Qida:

Qida is a social impact scale-up founded in Barcelona in 2018 with the vision to become the European leader in services to the elderly  goal is to keep the elderly patients at home, for longer, through both caregiver services, as well as, insurance, and technology. We aim to make the social and healthcare systems more sustainable through our work.

Seven years after inception, we have scaled the business to 75

Mn€ GMV, 200+ office employees, over 5.500 active caregivers, we have reached profitability and we have secured exclusive partnerships with the largest private hospital chain in Spain (QuirónSalud) and one of the largest bank and life insurers in Spain.

We are B Corp and invested by the 3 largest social impact funds in Spain, together with Kibo Ventures, a leading Southern Europe VC.

About the origins:

The company was Founded by Oriol Fuertes, McKinsey Alumn in both Spain and London, where he spent c. 10 years doing healthcare work, mostly in public sector. Oriol founded Qida to transform how health and social care system work. He has a strong believe that health and social care systems need a profound reform at global scale to ensure their long term existence (and quality of care) and to do so, cost needs to be reduced.

To achieve it, keeping patients at home, with high quality care as well as technology that helps prevent (avoidable) admissions is key. And in Europe, to achieve this goal, working with Public Institutions is fundamental.

In the company, we put a lot of effort in having A+ players, strong team members that create an environment where one can learn and thrive, that push the limit, that ask "what would it take" instead of "finding all the reasons why something won't work", work hard (with predictability, but hard) and have a huge hunger for growth. A couple of examples of the talent we have (non-exhaustive):

• Pau Puigpelat, Chief Operating Officer and Chief AI Officer of the company (7+ years at McKinsey, MBA IESE, Former CEO Alea, 5 years at Qida, etc)

• Ariadna Puig, Chief Commercial Officer, 3 years experience in Marketing Consulting and joined Qida when we were 8 people; she helped us scale from 0 to 100

Mn€++ GMV

• Daniel Alonso, Chief Product Officer of the company; 3 years at McKinsey, MBA Berkeley, 5 years in Walmart US, then 7 years leading all Q-Commerce globally for Glovo and last couple of years as CPO

• Agustina Clair, Director of Strategic Projects (Admit); 7 years Consulting in Argentina, then 7 years at Glovo in Argentina, Italy and Barcelona, where ended up leading Groceries globally

• Jose Carol, Former Leader of Banco Sabadell Start-up investment arm where he invested in 60+ companies (incl. Qida). After joining the Board for 3 years, he decided to join the company to lead all our M&A and expansion strategy

• Ramon Forn, 25+ years at McKinsey (Senior Partner), who acts as Executive Chairman of the Board and Co-Founder

Scope of the role:

The role to be filled is Head of ALS, working closely with the COO and CCO of the Private BU to build a specialized unit within the Private Home Care focused on improving the quality of life of ALS patients at home

Objectives and responsibilities:

• Lead the ideation and execution of initiatives to continuously improve Qida’s specialized ALS home care model.

• Work hand in hand with local patient associations to improve and adapt our specialized care model to ensure a high quality care

• Scale and adapt our training center:
Training both our caregivers, "creating a pool of talent," and Qida's internal team

• Position Qida as the market leader in ALS care in Spain working with our Marketing team

• Generate evidence and impact:
Work with top partners in the sector to generate evidence of how our delivery model helps improve ALS’s patients quality of life at home

• Identify additional services, partnerships or support mechanisms that can meaningfully improve the quality of life of patients

• Explore new opportunities for specialized care beyond ALS to continue growing the unit.

• Leadership and Team Management:
Developing and managing a high-performance team: attracting, training, and developing talent

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