Jobs at Signant Health

• The Associate Director, Clinical supports strategic initiatives within the Science and Medicine department and DHS group, contributing to the alignment of scientific activities with business objectives and corporate growth strategies. The Associate Director is responsible for supporting the Science and Medicine leadership team in implementing scientific initiatives and key departmental projects. The Associate Director contributes to thought leadership, ensures scientific quality, and represents the company as a scientific expert in selected forums.

As part of our team, your main responsibilities will be:

• Support strategic initiatives for the Science and Medicine department and DHS group, contributing to the alignment of scientific activities with business objectives and corporate goals. Play a critical role in accelerating business development by collaborating closely with the Sales team to define and execute high-impact strategies that increase win rates and secure new opportunities.
• Manage and develop junior clinical scientists, fostering a culture of scientific excellence, innovation, and professional growth.
• Support the Director and leadership team by contributing to departmental planning, cross-functional initiatives, and key projects.
• Contribute to thought leadership initiatives, including scientific publications, presentations, and external collaborations to enhance the company's scientific reputation.
• Work with business development, marketing, and commercial teams to support partnerships, client engagements, and scientific communications.
• Ensure scientific and clinical quality in project execution and interpretation, providing guidance on clinical and scientific issues and provide review of methodologies and deliverables.
• Represent the company at selected Investigator’s meetings, scientific conferences, industry meetings, and with stakeholders, serving as a scientific expert.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including Operations, Product Development, and Regulatory Affairs, to implement clinical and scientific activities aligned with business goals.
• Monitor scientific trends, industry developments, and competitive activities to inform departmental priorities and support the company's scientific position.
• Support strategies to ensure compliance with regulatory requirements and industry standards while maintaining scientific integrity across projects.
• Decision making and influence:
• Exercises sound decision-making on scientific implementation and prioritization to balance scientific quality with business objectives
• Influences project teams by effectively communicating scientific concepts and their business implications
• Provides reliable scientific guidance that informs departmental initiatives and project direction
• Contributes to innovation through evaluation of relevant technologies, methodologies, and therapeutic approaches
• Develops relationships with scientific peers, academic institutions, and industry partners to support company's scientific initiatives

You’ll need to bring: 

Essential:  

• MD, PhD, PharmD, or equivalent advanced degree in a relevant scientific or medical field.
• Minimum of 7+ years of experience in clinical research, pharmaceutical industry, or healthcare.
• At least 3 years in a scientific or clinical management role.
• Demonstrated record of scientific contributions and publications in peer-reviewed journals.
• Solid understanding of clinical research methodologies and industry practices.
• Developing leadership abilities with experience managing scientific professionals.
• Strong communication and presentation skills.
• Analytical thinking and developing business awareness.
• Collaborative approach with strong interpersonal skills.
• Commitment to scientific integrity and ethical standards.

Desirable:

• Experience in therapeutic areas aligned with company's focus (e.g., CNS, oncology, neurology, rare diseases)
• Experience with digital health technologies, AI applications in clinical research, or innovative research methodologies
• Experience in cross-functional project leadership
• Background in clinical development or medical affairs
• Understanding of regulatory requirements in clinical research

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• We are strengthening our development capabilities and looking for a Software Engineer to join our growing R&D team in South Africa.

Want to join the Best Team of Your Life?

• We’re looking for people who are excited by the potential to make a difference in the world. You don’t need to have a clinical background to thrive at Signant. You need to be decisive, open to celebrating mistakes, able to communicate transparently and inclusively, and someone your team can count on. Most of all you need to be yourself!

As part of our team, your main responsibilities will be to: 

• Perform design, implementation and maintenance of product modules/sub-systems according to architecture, guidelines and good software engineering practice;
• Take responsibility for product’s usability by creating user interfaces, creating use cases, and implementing prototypes and conducting usability tests;
• Prepare technical documentation of product, creates user interface guidelines and conducts reviews;
• Produce design documentation that complies with regulations;
• Take responsibility for the unit testing and integration testing for the sprint coding;
• Perform bug verification, release testing and support for assigned products; Researches problems discovered by Validation or Product Support and develops solutions to the problems;
• Research and understands the marketing requirements for a product, including target environment, performance criteria and competitive issues;
• Other responsibilities will be assigned as required.

You’ll need to bring: 

• M.Sc/B.Sc Degree in Computer Science, Engineering or Information Systems;
• 3 - 5 years of software development experience;
• Fluency in English, both written and verbal;
• APIs: REST, GraphQL;
• DB: RDBMS (SqlServer/Oracle / PostgreSQL and Non-RDMBS (MongoDB);
• Monitoring: Dynatrace or similar;
• Virtualization/Cloud: Docker, OpenShift / K8s;
• Secrets Management (AWS Secrets Manager / Azure Keyvault / Hashicorp Vault);
• Architecture: Microservices;
• Specific programming knowledge (1 or more);
• Backend Java: Java (Spring), Java EE, JUnit (or similar but willing to code in JAVA/Kotlin);
• Python (AWS python Powertools a nice to have);
• AWS (serverless / lambda / dynamodb / SQS)
• Terraform / Cloud Formation;
• Build tools: Maven APIs: REST.

Desirable:

• User-oriented approach to software development;
• Must be willing to expand the skills by learning other technologies as needed;
• Must be a team-oriented person with a “can do” attitude.

And finally, here are the ways of working that will help you succeed at Signant: 

• You enjoy problem-solving and have a constructive can-do attitude. 
• You’re motivated by working in a fast-growing global company. 
• You’re self-driven, active and want to continuously learn new things. 
• You like to share knowledge as a way to advance organisational learning.