GM Associate

🐼 Who we are

You. Better. With Alan.

Alan's vision is to make prevention the new norm of care for all. Our mission is to help people live in good health to 100 while helping employers feel proud, turning health benefits from a cost centre into their most valuable investment.

We're building a vertically integrated health partner that seamlessly unites insurance and smart healthcare delivery into one system.

By connecting all aspects of care - private, public, and direct to consumer - we create the most member-centric healthcare experience. Through deep engagement, we empower everyone to overcome day-to-day health obstacles and live healthier lives.

We partner with 32,000+ companies of all sizes, serving more than 700K members, and have reached €500M+ in ARR.

Our team of 600 people (still growing) operates across France 🇫🇷, Spain 🇪🇸, Belgium 🇧🇪, and Canada 🇨🇦.

🤘 How we do it ?

People joining Alan are often surprised and delighted by our innovative working method. We have a set of cultural values that guide our approach to work, such as:

1. Mission is the Boss: We have a mission-first focus with long-term thinking, where all employees act as owners seeking the company's success above all else.

2. Member & Customer-led: We are obsessively focused on solving customer problems and creating delightful experiences while building trust.

3. Excellence like Athletes: We maintain high standards and talent density, using the Keeper Test to ensure exceptional performance.

4. Enlightened Despots: We combine distributed ownership with accountability, empowering decision-makers while maintaining responsibility.

5. Radically Transparent: We make information accessible and written-first, promoting async communication while protecting sensitive data.

6. Kind, Methodic Optimists: We collaborate genuinely without ego, support teammates, and maintain positive intent while assuming the best.

7. Empathetic Challengers: We give direct feedback with empathy, praise strengths, and focus on growth through candid communication.

8. Bold & Creative Contrarians: We think differently to achieve greatness, challenge expertise with first principles, and embrace calculated risks.

9. Disciplined Executors: We focus on making good decisions quickly, maintain accountability, and break down problems into manageable pieces.

10. Fight for Simplicity: We eliminate unnecessary processes, stay concise and articulate, and maintain smart frugality while solving problems pragmatically.

⭐️ What you will be responsible for ⭐️

As Associate, you will provide support to our General Manager and Senior Alaners on top business priorities, such as unlocking new growth, driving alignment on strategy and building new processes/standards internally and externally. This GM Associate role will be dedicated to helping the GM of Spain to grow the market share of Alan in Spain

You will be highly involved in key challenges for Alan, and will be asked to support high added value tasks for Alan.

Detailed missions

As such, we can’t be exhaustive on the projects you will perform as a GM Associate, as you can be asked to help on almost any subject.

Possible projects include:

• Corporate & Governance (support for the constitution of our board packs, market research, key Alaners meetings, Weekly & Monthly Business Reviews...).

• Growth (supporting marketing initiatives, partnerships...).

• Brand & Communication (develop the Corporate brand at major business events, with a newsletter, on social networks).

• Strategy (contribute to the strategic vision of the company, screen markets and competition, produce business analyses, build models of growth, etc.).

• Product (identify and explore strategic product opportunities).

• Talent (sourcing and recruiting).

• Team (organize the Spanish offsites, kick-off and key bonding events).

In this position, you will get a great overview of the key strategic topics at Alan and will work with the GM on topics that are instrumental to our success.

You will grow exponentially with the guidance of these senior Alaners. It is a unique chance to work on so many tasks in a different and non traditional environment.

⭐️ Is it what you are looking for? ⭐️

You may be a great fit at Alan if you have:

• Preferably ~3-7 of experience in finance, operations analysis, or strategy roles. We're looking for analytical minds who can solve complex problems and have a strong business sense. Finance/consulting and some startup/scaleup experience are big pluses.

• Analytical sense and critical thinking: GM Associate have a lot of research and analysis to produce. This requires the ability to frame the right questions, objectively analyse and evaluate a problem or issue, and problem-solve including simulating possible outcomes.

• ‘Business’ and product sense: GM Associate often have to think at the company level, assessing what would be best for the business, and working on topics that have cross-cutting impacts. The ability to understand what can make a business great (product wise, commercially, in terms of image, etc.), and usually make correct decisions, even in the presence of ambiguity, is paramount.

• Execution and collaboration: given the scope, volume and timeline of work, the ability to direct people—including oneself—towards a particular objective that may require active orchestration is key.

• Versatility: given the scope of work, you should be able to jump from one topic to another with similar impact

• Organization, time management and autonomy: you are well-versed in missions requiring precision and reliability. You are able to manage a project from start to finish with minimal external assistance.

• Communicate effectively: given the number of Alaners you will interact with on a daily basis, the ability to communicate your specific needs (deadlines etc) and to inspire action in others is essential.

• Always looking for the extra-mile: as a GM Associate, you will be expected to be able to deliver quickly and well on the tasks assigned to you, but also to be proactive in proposing new initiatives, going beyond the task assigned to you if you think it is necessary, as well as anticipating future needs to propose potential solutions

• Growth mindset: you know how to ask for and receive feedback in order to grow as an Associate in your early professional life.

Fluency in spoken and written English and Spanish is required. All our company communications are written and in English.

Important note: we hire people, not roles.

If you're excited about this opportunity but don't check every box, we'd love to hear from you. Everyone, no matter how underrepresented, should feel free to apply as it can only bring learnings or success.

If you identify yourself as a woman: Did you know that research shows women often apply only when meeting 100% of requirements?

Remember, this is just a guide, not a checklist.

We'll be thrilled to receive your application!

🔖 Check out our About Alan and Career pages, as well as our Medium, blog and Glassdoor page for more info.