At Genesis MedTech, our quest is to make quality healthcare accessible for everyone. We believe each of us can make a positive impact at work. Together we explore ideas, innovate new solutions and make great things happen. Our culture is built on collaboration and a shared commitment to make an impact on the lives of our patients.
Position Overview
We are seeking a Global Medical Advisor to serve as the senior clinical advisor for the Surgical Solutions business of Genesis MedTech. The role provides strategic clinical leadership by bringing deep medical expertise, procedural insight and international credibility to guide product strategy, clinical adoption, surgeon engagement, clinical evidence generation and commercial growth.
This appointment is ideally suited to a distinguished practising or former surgeon with extensive experience in general surgery, colorectal surgery, hepatopancreatobiliary (HPB) surgery or thoracic surgery, together with expertise in minimally invasive surgery, including laparoscopic, robotic, endoscopic and image-guided procedures.
The Global Medical Advisor will support Genesis MedTech's Surgical Solutions business globally, partnering with cross-functional teams across Asia Pacific, Europe, North America, Latin America, the Middle East and other strategic markets.
*** This is a location agnostic position with a preference for candidates who are based in the Asia Pacific region ***
Key Responsibilities
1. Clinical and Surgical Leadership
- Serve as the company's medical advisor on surgical practice, procedural trends, unmet clinical needs, and adoption barriers.
- Translate real-world surgical needs into product requirements, clinical workflows, training programs, and commercial positioning.
- Advise executive leadership on how the company's technology can improve surgical outcomes, efficiency, safety, access, and cost-effectiveness.
- Represent the company credibly with leading surgeons, hospital executives, societies, regulators, and strategic partners.
2. Product Strategy and Innovation
- Partner closely with the R&D, product management, human factors, regulatory, quality, and commercial teams to shape product roadmap and clinical value proposition.
- Identify opportunities for new product development, next-generation features, indication expansion, and platform differentiation.
- Ensure products are designed around practical surgical workflow, ergonomics, safety, training burden, clinical utility, and hospital economics.
- Provide expert input on instruments, imaging, robotics, energy systems, stapling, surgical navigation, digital surgery, AI, or other relevant surgical technologies.
- Support competitive assessment against existing surgical approaches, robotic platforms, laparoscopic tools, open surgery, endoscopic procedures, and emerging alternatives.
3. Global Surgeon Engagement and KOL Development
- Build and maintain strong relationships with global key opinion leaders (KOLs), surgical societies, academic centers, teaching hospitals, and early-adopter clinicians.
- Lead surgeon feedback sessions, advisory boards, clinical workshops, innovation labs, cadaver labs, and hands-on evaluations.
- Ensure regional perspectives are incorporated into product and commercial strategies, taking into account differences in surgical practice, reimbursement, hospital systems, and adoption dynamics.
4. Clinical Evidence and Medical Affairs
- Partner with medical affairs teams to define the company's evidence-generation strategy.
- Support clinical trial design, registry development, post-market studies, health-economic studies, and real-world evidence programs.
- Help develop publication strategies, podium presentations, peer-reviewed manuscripts, congress abstracts, and society engagement.
- Ensure that clinical claims are scientifically credible, regulatorily compliant, and commercially meaningful.
5. Global Commercial and Market Development Support
- Partner with commercial leadership to support global market development, product positioning, surgeon education, and adoption strategy.
- Help define the most attractive clinical segments, target procedures, customer profiles, and regional launch priorities.
- Support the sales and marketing teams with clinically accurate messaging, objection handling, competitive differentiation, and customer engagement.
- Participate in major customer meetings, hospital system discussions, distributor training, investor presentations, and strategic partnership discussions.
6. Training, Education, and Clinical Adoption
- Lead the development of the surgeon training strategy.
- Develop curricula, proctoring models, simulation, wet labs, cadaver labs, certification pathways, and clinical onboarding.
- Help define safe and scalable adoption pathways for new users, including learning-curve management and procedural best practices.
- Support centers of excellence, reference sites, visiting surgeon programs, and peer-to-peer education.
7. Regulatory, Quality, and Risk Input
- Provide surgical perspective to regulatory submissions, risk analysis, usability studies, clinical evaluation reports, post-market surveillance, and complaint review.
- Support assessment of adverse events, procedural complications, device-related risks, and mitigation strategies.
- Collaborate with quality and regulatory teams to ensure patient safety and clinical integrity remain central to company decisions.
Requirements
- Medical degree with completed surgical training; practicing or previously practicing surgeon with strong experience in General Surgery, Colorectal Surgery, HPB Surgery, or Thoracic Surgery.
- Strong experience with minimally invasive surgery, laparoscopic surgery, robotic surgery, endoscopic surgery, or advanced surgical technologies, with recognized clinical credibility among peers and the ability to engage senior surgeons and hospital leaders.
- Experience working with medtech companies, surgical innovation, product development, medical affairs, training, or advisory boards.
- Active or recent surgical practice in a leading academic, teaching, or high-volume clinical center; and experience as a department chair, program director, society leader, clinical trial investigator, innovation lead, or medtech advisor.
- Strong understanding of global surgical practice patterns, especially in Europe and other major markets, with experience launching or scaling surgical technologies across multiple countries and a strong network across European surgical societies and global KOL communities.
- Prior leadership role in a surgical medtech company, robotics company, digital surgery company, or minimally invasive technology company.
- Experience with CE Mark, FDA, MDR, post-market clinical follow-up, clinical evaluation, and a track record of publications, podium presentations, clinical research, or guideline participation.
- Familiarity with hospital procurement, reimbursement, value analysis committees, and health-economic evidence.
- Ability to travel internationally.
- Fluency in English; proficiency in additional European or Asian languages would be an advantage.
Genesis MedTech is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment based on merit, qualifications and business needs, without discrimination on any characteristic protected by applicable law.
About Genesis MedTech
WE MAKE BETTER HEALTHCARE HAPPEN.
This is our quest: to make quality healthcare more affordable and accessible.
Headquartered in Singapore, Genesis MedTech shares a bold new world of value-based healthcare across surgical, cardiology and vascular interventional specialities.
With an open platform that brings the best of medtech together from every corner of the globe, we disrupt the inefficiencies and fragmentation that keep quality healthcare out of reach for many. Genesis MedTech aims to become the most scalable, efficient and transparent business platform for the medtech industry. At Genesis MedTech, we are also actively growing our product portfolio through R&D and innovation, acquisitions, as well as partnerships with strategic startups.
Website: https://www.genesismedtech.com/
