People Partner Lead, Germany & Sweden

Mission

Neko is redefining what prevention means, from treating illness when it arrives, to sustaining health before it's ever at risk. Our mission: make data-driven, preventative care accessible to more people, before symptoms appear. In a single, non-invasive visit under an hour, proprietary technology and direct clinical care combine to deliver personalised, actionable insights. It's a team that thinks in 10x, not 10%. Every role here plays a part in building a world where prevention is the norm, and where your work genuinely helps people live longer, healthier lives.

Role Purpose

You’ll help build Neko’s clinical organisation in Germany from the ground up, and then lead the people strategy that helps it scale.

Neko’s clinics are where our mission comes to life. The experience members have is shaped by the teams behind it, making the organisation itself one of the most important products we build. In Germany, this organisation doesn’t exist yet. Before the first clinic opens, you’ll help define clinical roles, workforce planning, compensation, and the employee experience that attracts exceptional talent. Then, as clinics launch and grow, you’ll partner with leaders to ensure those teams perform, develop, and scale successfully.

This is a rare opportunity to build an organisation from day one – and to shape what it becomes as Neko brings prevention-first healthcare to another market.

What you'll do in the first 6-12 Months

Phase one: build the foundation, pre-launch

Ensure the German employment framework is appropriately set up with legal, external counsel, key internal teams, like People Ops and Workforce Planning – contracts, working-time and rostering models, pay structures, policies, payroll and people systems

Design the clinic organisation from a blank sheet, and a staffing model sized to Neko’s ambition for the market rather than to the first clinic

Own the launch workforce plan, the cover and contracting model, and reward in a German context – pay, pension, equity

Build a German clinical employer proposition from zero with TA, and a playbook the next market can reuse

Build for German employment structures from day one

Design workforce policies (scheduling, pay, performance) with German labor law and employee representation requirements in mind from the start

Work with legal counsel to determine the right structure for German clinic operations

Ensure people systems and tools are built to comply with German labor regulations

Phase two: run clinical people strategy live

Be the day-to-day People partner across German clinical leadership, from senior operations and medical leaders through to frontline clinic managers

Spend real time in clinics, and read what members experience there as signal about how teams are resourced, structured and led – spotting strain, inconsistency or risk early, because it usually shows up in the clinic room before it shows up in the data

Coach clinic leaders through hiring, performance and the conversations that are hard but important – and build the leadership capability and multi-way feedback culture that keep employee relations issues from piling up, while supporting teams and leaders through the ones that do

Support first-time clinic managers as they build confidence, capability and steady leadership habits

Hold the staffing model against the growth plan: German absence, leave and part-time realities, the clinical qualification and mobility pipeline, and honesty when the plan and the labour market disagree

Turn central People programmes into clinic-ready practice, and call out where a centralised approach misses frontline reality

Revisit what you built pre-launch as clinics run, and put data and AI to work in how the People agenda actually operates – sharper decisions, less manual effort, more time on the judgement calls