Clinical Director

A leading organisation in the medical devices industry is seeking a Clinical Director for its Avitum division in Singapore. This pivotal role offers you the opportunity to shape the future of healthcare by providing strategic and operational leadership across all clinical aspects of the business. Your expertise will be recognised and celebrated as you drive clinical quality, patient safety, regulatory compliance, and sustainable business expansion.

• You will have the opportunity to lead clinical governance frameworks across multiple renal care facilities, ensuring that patient care standards are consistently elevated and maintained at the highest level.
• Your role will allow you to collaborate closely with commercial teams, clinicians, hospitals, and healthcare authorities, strengthening referral networks and driving value-based selling strategies that highlight both patient outcomes and economic benefits.
• The organisation offers a platform for professional growth through mentoring multidisciplinary teams, developing clinical education initiatives, and engaging with key opinion leaders in nephrology and critical care settings.

What you'll do:

As Clinical Director in Singapore’s Avitum division you will play an integral role in shaping both strategic direction and day-to-day operations. You will be responsible for overseeing all aspects of clinical governance—ensuring that every facility operates under robust frameworks designed to deliver exceptional patient care. Your daily activities will involve monitoring key performance indicators related to dialysis adequacy, infection rates, hospitalisation statistics, anaemia management, mortality/morbidity figures, as well as patient satisfaction. You will work collaboratively with commercial teams to support sales activities by highlighting the value of superior patient outcomes during customer presentations or contract negotiations. Engaging with clinicians across hospitals and healthcare authorities forms a core part of your remit—strengthening referral networks while acting as an ambassador at industry events. You’ll also provide ongoing education for both customers and internal teams through tailored training programmes designed to enhance competency among nursing staff or allied health professionals. Mentoring multidisciplinary teams ensures that knowledge sharing remains central to operational excellence. Your insights will inform operational decisions around financial planning or expansion strategies while identifying innovative opportunities for service improvement or business growth. Building strong relationships with nephrologists or intensivists—and keeping abreast of emerging trends—will help maintain the division’s reputation for excellence in both medical practice and professional engagement.

• Lead and oversee comprehensive clinical governance frameworks across all renal care facilities within the Avitum division, ensuring that policies, protocols, and standards of care are established, implemented, and continuously improved.
• Ensure full compliance with local healthcare regulations, accreditation standards, and company clinical policies while monitoring quality indicators and driving quality improvement initiatives throughout the division.
• Define and monitor key clinical outcome metrics, vascular access outcomes, hospitalisation rates, infection rates, anaemia management, mortality and morbidity indicators, as well as patient satisfaction measures.
• Benchmark clinical outcomes against national and international best practices to identify areas for improvement and implement corrective or preventive action plans addressing any quality gaps.
• Drive programmes aimed at improving patient outcomes and overall quality of care by fostering a culture of continuous improvement among staff members.
• Lead regional clinical engagement efforts by supporting sales activities, partnering with commercial teams during customer presentations, tenders, and contract negotiations to develop value-based selling strategies.
• Engage proactively with clinicians, hospitals, healthcare providers, and healthcare authorities to strengthen referral networks while acting as a clinical ambassador at conferences, professional forums, and industry events.
• Provide clinical education and training to customers as well as internal commercial teams; develop competency programmes for nursing and allied healthcare personnel; mentor clinical managers and multidisciplinary teams.
• Offer clinical input into operational decisions including financial planning and expansion strategies; identify opportunities for service innovation, operational improvement, and business growth within the division.
• Establish strong collaborative relationships with nephrologists, intensivists, regulatory bodies, professional societies; facilitate physician engagement; monitor emerging trends in technologies and evidence-based practices.

What you bring:

You will bring extensive medical qualifications coupled with deep experience in both corporate healthcare environments and regional operations. Your background should include significant exposure to leadership roles where collaborative team-building has been central to achieving shared objectives. Expertise in developing robust clinical governance frameworks—spanning policy creation through compliance monitoring—is vital alongside hands-on experience managing dialysis operations (including acute settings). Your ability to engage empathetically with clinicians from varied backgrounds ensures effective liaison between medical professionals/regulatory bodies/professional societies. Familiarity with benchmarking against best practices allows you to develop actionable plans addressing any gaps identified via key outcome metrics. Delivering impactful education/training programmes demonstrates your commitment to nurturing talent within both internal teams (commercial/nursing/allied health) as well as external customers. Strong interpersonal communication skills underpin your capacity for mentoring managers across multidisciplinary groups—helping foster a culture of knowledge sharing that drives operational excellence. Experience supporting business development through informed input into financial/expansion decisions rounds out your profile—enabling you to identify innovative opportunities that benefit both patients and organisational growth.

• Medical Doctor (MD/MBBS) qualification is required; specialisation in Nephrology is considered an added advantage for this position.
• A minimum of ten years’ experience in a corporate role within healthcare is essential; regional experience will further strengthen your candidacy.
• At least five years’ proven track record in leadership or management roles where you have demonstrated collaborative team-building skills.
• Demonstrated expertise in clinical governance frameworks including policy development, protocol implementation, compliance monitoring, and quality management initiatives.
• Extensive experience managing dialysis operations—including acute dialysis settings—as well as providing customer-facing clinical support across diverse environments.
• Ability to engage effectively with clinicians from various disciplines (nephrologists/intensivists), regulatory bodies/professional societies; facilitating physician engagement is highly desirable.
• Experience developing corrective/preventive action plans based on benchmarking against national/international best practices; familiarity with key outcome metrics such as Kt/V or infection rates is important.
• Proven ability to deliver impactful clinical education/training programmes for both internal teams (commercial/nursing/allied health) as well as external customers.
• Strong interpersonal communication skills enabling you to build collaborative relationships across multidisciplinary teams while mentoring/coaching managers towards shared goals.
• Experience supporting business development through operational input into financial/expansion decisions; identifying opportunities for service innovation or operational improvement.

What's next:

If you are ready to take your career forward by contributing meaningfully to world-class healthcare delivery then this Clinical Director opportunity could be perfect for you!

Apply today by clicking on the link provided.

Do note that we will only be in touch if your application is shortlisted.
Robert Walters (Singapore) Pte Ltd
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