Occupational Medical Practicioner

About Lyra Health

Lyra is transforming mental health care through technology with a human touch to help people feel emotionally healthy at work and at home.

We work with industry leaders, such as Morgan Stanley, Uber, Amgen, and other Fortune companies, to improve access to effective, high-quality mental health care for their employees and their families.

With our innovative digital care platform and global provider network, 17 million people can receive the best care and feel better, faster.

Founded by David Ebersman, former CFO of Facebook and Genentech, Lyra has raised more than $ million. Lyra Southern Africa are recruiting an Occupational Medical Practitioner, based in South Africa.

Reporting to the Managing Director, you will play a key role in supporting the company's business strategy of growth in diversified services and innovation and be a role model for the expected behaviours and attitudes.

Key Responsibilities

1. Product line / department management: Executive Wellbeing Centre – management of executive wellbeing medical services, and the running of the centre (clinical and operational).
2. Occupational Performance Solutions – management of incapacity, disability, fitness for work, sick leave verification, functional capacity related cases for employees of our corporate clients.
3. Musculoskeletal Care (MSK) – provision of MSK services to employees of our corporate clients via in person and telephonic care, and webinars, including ergonomic assessments and applications.
4. Business Development: Create and implement an effective sales strategy and pipeline of clients and engage with potential clients to prospect new business towards the achievement of the overall Lyra SA sales targets.
5. Proactively identify trends within the market to inform and develop convincing value propositions for new or add-on sales opportunities.
6. Ensure a high quality of proposals and presentations for client engagement.
7. Coordinate, participate and support all sales processes including monitoring and forecasting of sales performance.
8. Continue to identify new product offerings as well as go-to-market strategies in support of Lyra growth and diversification.
9. Represent Lyra as part of the sales team with client presentations.
10. Set up and manage alliances and relationships with various third-party companies and providers.
11. Participate in pricing the solution / service.
12. Performance Management and Training: Direct, coach and mentor team members to ensure performance targets are being met.
13. Organize training and workshop programs.
14. Ensure all team members represent the company in the best way possible.
15. Manage and develop relationships with clients as an expert resource.
16. Continuously work with the Lyra team such as Business Intelligence and Consulting to automate, produce dashboards and provide meaningful and useful reports to our clients.

Qualifications

1. Medical Doctor, preferably with a diploma or Master's in Occupational Health.
2. Commercial or business qualification such as post graduate diploma in business administration or Masters in Business Administration (MBA).

About you

1. Organised with the ability to plan and prioritise workload effectively.
2. Continuous improvement mind-set – looking at opportunities to innovate & improve.
3. Excellent verbal and written communication.
4. Ability to work as part of a team and accept change readily.

This is a BBBEE position and preference will be given to BBBEE candidates. We are an Equal Opportunity Employer.

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