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Fella Health

Head of Expansion

Business OperationsConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-time

About the Job

Requirements

  • You have 5+ years in expansion, market launch, business operations, general management, or a similarly high-ownership role.
  • You are based in the UK or Europe, and you have launched and/or scaled businesses across multiple European countries, namely Germany, the Netherlands, France, Spain, Italy, and/or the Nordics.
  • You have personally owned taking European launches from idea to live operations and remain close to the details.
  • You determine which markets are worth entering, what must be true for them to work, and whether to build, partner, or acquire.
  • You are comfortable negotiating partnerships, reviewing contracts, setting up entities, solving supply constraints, and handling other work required to launch compliantly.
  • You can understand complex regulatory environments and work effectively across legal, clinical, and operations, using experts to reach decisions while retaining ownership.
  • You learn unfamiliar markets quickly, find the right people, ask sharp questions, distinguish real blockers from perceived blockers, and reach decisions without months of research.
  • You run several country launches concurrently and create clear plans with directly responsible individuals and deadlines.
  • You turn each launch into reusable scaffolding and identify what can be standardized across Europe to reduce launch time.
  • You take responsibility for results without waiting for complete information, perfect resources, or others to remove blockers.
  • The role requires availability until midday Pacific Time for calls as needed, and regular long days and weekend work.

Responsibilities

  • Own European expansion from market research through launch readiness, turning market-entry opportunities into the ability to compliantly serve patients and repeating the process more quickly.
  • Determine which countries to enter next based on market size, customer demand, unit economics, regulatory complexity, and speed to launch.
  • Identify what is blocking launches in priority countries and construct plans to address the blockers.
  • Choose the fastest compliant route into each market by building internally, partnering with established local providers, and/or acquiring existing infrastructure.
  • Ensure the appropriate legal entities, local and national permissions, registrations, contracts, and compliance frameworks are in place to operate.
  • Establish the clinical infrastructure required to serve patients, including helping staff the initial clinical team when building from zero.
  • Secure reliable medication supply, pharmacy partners, and fulfilment infrastructure so markets can launch quickly and scale without operational constraints.
  • Coordinate the legal, clinical, product, operational, and supply work required for the Growth team to begin testing each market as quickly as possible.
  • Turn lessons from each launch into a repeatable system that reduces the time, cost, and complexity of entering subsequent countries.
  • Close critical legal, clinical, supply, and operational gaps in European countries the company can already serve.
  • Identify what prevents launches in priority markets where the company is not yet live, and establish the fastest compliant route to market through internal capabilities, partnerships, or acquisitions.

Desired Qualifications

  • Experience operating in a heavily regulated industry and moving quickly while treating compliance as an ownership responsibility.
  • Experience launching and scaling businesses across multiple European countries, including Germany, the Netherlands, France, Spain, Italy, and/or the Nordics.
  • Experience evaluating partnerships, joint ventures, licensing arrangements, or acquisitions as routes into new markets, including conducting diligence, structuring a deal, and closing it.
  • Use of artificial intelligence to research markets, analyse regulations, evaluate opportunities, draft plans, automate workflows, and increase personal execution capacity.
  • Experience building and managing a lean, high-performance team across multiple countries.
  • Experience founding something, however small, or joining a project early; interest in starting a company in the future.
  • Ability to make progress in unfamiliar situations with limited resources.

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