Further Group is a fast-growing and dynamic company at the forefront of innovation, leveraging cutting-edge technology and a deep understanding of the healthcare sector to deliver turnkey solutions for the treatment of serious medical conditions.

Our company works with insurers, large employers, and affinity organizations worldwide, to accelerate consumer access to the best treatment choices. As the global leader in our field, we are seeking a highly experienced and dynamic individual to join us Medical Director.

The Medical Director is Further’s senior clinical authority, responsible for shaping and governing the clinical performance, medical quality and medical economics of our global health services ecosystem. This is a high‑impact role leading two critical operational and strategic pillars:

• Medical Management (clinical case quality, appropriateness, decisions, escalations, reserve reviews, clinical audits), and

• Medical Network (global network development, clinical provider performance, sourcing, contracting, and international expansion).

The role carries strategic accountability for oncology and high‑cost care cost‑containment leadership, evidence‑based pathway optimisation, clinical governance across products, and precision medicine initiatives. As Further expands internationally, this role serves as the central integrator of clinical excellence, cost sustainability, and defensible medical decision‑making.

This is an opportunity for a senior medical leader to shape an international clinical network, influence complex case management standards, and elevate clinical governance across multiple markets.

As our Medical Director, you'll get to:

A. Clinical Governance & Medical Oversight

• Lead the clinical governance agenda across all Medical Management activities, ensuring rigorous standards in medical necessity assessments, medical eligibility, pre‑approvals, and complex case escalations.

• Oversee enterprise‑level clinical audits — across hospitals, service lines, and individual providers — ensuring performance, quality and pathway adherence.

• Apply and enforce internationally recognised guidelines and pathways (NCCN, ESMO, NICE) to support defensible, evidence‑based clinical decisions for a global patient population.

• Serve as senior peer reviewer, applying knowledge of emerging therapies and precision‑oncology advances to guide high‑quality medical decisions.

• Own the medical oversight required for Further’s products, services, and clinical outcomes.

• Contribute to “autopsy of cases” cycles alongside Customer Experience for continuous improvement.

• Partner with Customer Operations, Legal, Compliance functions to ensure all clinical elements meet regulatory, legal and Consumer Duty expectations.

• Represent clinical governance in internal and external audit processes.

• Support Customer Service with clinical escalations, quality assurance and standards improvement.

• Provide senior clinical leadership for product development, including: Clinical validation of risk assessment models; Coverage gap trigger logic; Prevention pathway design: Oncology‑driven service enhancements; Participate in insurer, reinsurer and client meetings requiring medical authority and clinical credibility.

B. Cost Containment Leadership (Oncology & High‑Cost Care)

• Act as the clinical owner for Further’s oncology and high‑cost drug cost‑containment strategy.

• Provide leadership in appropriateness governance, biosimilar adoption, alternative access models (EAPs), site‑of‑care steering, and pathway optimisation.

• Lead the clinical validation of cost‑containment models in partnership with analytics, actuarial and commercial teams.

C. Leadership of Medical Network Function

• Lead the global Medical Provider Network: provider sourcing, expert identification, contracting, quality governance, performance monitoring and compliance.

• Oversee escalation management and network‑related clinical risk.

• Drive expansion into new geographies, providers, and centres of excellence — including clinical trials centres and precision medicine providers.

• Lead procurement and negotiation strategies to optimise clinical quality, cost effectiveness and service performance.

We'd love to meet someone who:

• Medical Doctor (MD or equivalent) with recognised clinical credentials.

• Minimum 5 years clinical practice and 3 years in healthcare business or health insurance.

• Proven leadership in medical operations, clinical governance or medical network management.

• Strong oncology, precision medicine or complex case management experience.

• Expertise in negotiation with hospitals and clinical providers.

• High analytical capability, including comfort with clinical economics and pathways modelling.

• Demonstrated change‑leadership capability in dynamic, international environments.

• Excellent communication and cross‑functional collaboration skills, including insurer‑facing interactions.

• Fluent in English.
  

If this sounds like the ideal job for you, don't hesitate to apply now! We are looking forward to hearing from you!

Further is a certified “Happy At Work” employer. We earned the “We Impact Index” certification along with a Bronze Medal from Ecovadis, demonstrating our dedication to a positive work environment and impactful ESG practices.

We believe passionately that employing a diverse workforce is central to our success. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital, or disability status.