[Hiring] Head of Patient Partnerships @Curewiki

Role Description

The Head of Patient Partnerships owns the partnership layer that makes Curewiki work at scale: the hospitals where research happens and the patient organisations that anchor patient trust. This is a player-coach role by design. You'll personally run the hospital partnership pipeline and the strategic partner governance, personally own the patient-engagement revenue lines (panels, surveys, advisory boards, and patient-input work), and directly manage the country-level Patient Engagement and Hospital Managers as markets activate.

• Hospital partnership strategy & pipeline:
  • Own the hospital partnership strategy across our European markets: which hospitals we prioritise, in what order, and why, based on transparent scoring criteria.
  • Build and manage the hospital partnership pipeline end to end, from first contact through agreement, implementation coordination, and go-live.
  • Navigate hospital decision structures: clinical research units, innovation offices, IT, legal, data protection, and executive sponsors.
  • Coordinate on implementation sequencing and timelines, so commercial expectations and technical reality stay aligned.
• Partnership governance & activation:
  • Design and run the governance rhythm for strategic partnerships: steering meetings, escalation paths, shared roadmaps, and clear ownership on both sides.
  • Turn signed partnerships into live, referenceable sites: onboarding, activation milestones, and the first proof points that feed the commercial story.
  • Work with the commercial team so hospital partnerships translate into sponsor-facing value.
• Patient organisation network leadership:
  • Own the patient organisation partnership strategy and the network's commercial readiness across markets.
  • Own the revenue lines where the patient relationship is the offer: panels, surveys, patient advisory boards, and patient-input work, from qualification through delivery, in coordination with Customer Success and the sales organisation.
  • Protect the neutrality and independence of the patient relationship in every partnership and commercial construct, including neutral allocation of any revenue-share.
  • Ensure the patient org network and the hospital network reinforce each other: shared geographies, shared conditions, shared proof points.
• Team & market building:
  • Directly manage and coach the country-level team as it grows.
  • Build the playbooks that make hospital partnership work repeatable across countries rather than artisanal per site, with AI leverage built into research, preparation, and follow-up.
  • Coordinate with the consortia and grants function on EU-funded programmes.

Qualifications

• You've closed and activated institutional healthcare partnerships and can walk us through one from first contact to live: who decided, what nearly killed it, how you got it over the line.
• You've carried a commercial number, or co-owned one, on services or engagement work sold into pharma or healthcare, and you're comfortable owning the patient-engagement revenue lines outright.
• You've led a small team and installed a repeatable process in a scale-up or high-change environment without slowing it down.
• You're comfortable operating in multi-party constructs involving technology partners, public funding, and clinical institutions.
• You run AI-first: research, account preparation, and partnership operations are all leveraged, and you expect the same of your team.
• Fluent professional English plus at least one of French, Spanish, German, or Dutch.
• Disciplined pipeline management in HubSpot or equivalent.

Requirements

• Familiarity with clinical research operations, hospital research units, or EHR and health-data interoperability (FHIR, EHDS-related initiatives).
• Experience with EU-funded consortium programmes such as Horizon Europe.
• Existing network in the European patient organisation and/or hospital landscape.

Benefits

• A player-coach mandate: you personally own the pipeline and the revenue lines that matter most, not just the strategy behind them.
• Real momentum to build on: leading academic hospitals are already committing to launch, and the partnership relationships exist — your job is to turn them into an engine.
• Remote work within the EU.
• A fast, transparent hiring process: intro call, hiring-manager deep-dive, practical working session, founder conversation, references — feedback at every step, completed in weeks not months.
• A high-velocity, mission-driven team that writes things down, moves fast, and takes AI leverage as a baseline in every role.
• A growing team to build and lead.