Senior Audiologist — Commercial & Growth
Guud Audiology, South Africa
Also open to candidates at Clinical Director level for the right growth-leadership fit.
Reports to
Director on commercial aspects with autonomy over clinical decisions.
Location
Cape Town
Employment type
Full-time, permanent (contracting structure to be agreed with the successful candidate).
Registration required
HPCSA registration as an Audiologist — mandatory and non-negotiable.
Travel
Travel to MAC deployments and client sites (mines and occupational health clients) across South Africa.
1. Who We Are
Guud Audiology is a South African audiology business providing clinical support within the Guud Group of companies (alongside Guud Mobility and Guud SA).
Guud Mobility delivers hearing health services through two complementary arms:
- Mobile Assessment Centers (MACs): A fleet of Mobile Assessment Centers (MACs), purpose-built vehicles deployed to mines and occupational health clients to deliver on-site hearing screening, diagnostic audiometry, and same-day hearing aid fitting under SANS 10083 and the NIHL regulatory framework.
- Fixed practice (in development): A brick-and-mortar fixed practice currently in development, which will extend our scope into ongoing private and medical-aid-billed care, complex diagnostics, and integrated speech-language therapy over time.
Our clinical platform is built on KUDUwave diagnostic audiometers (Prime, Pro and Pro-TMP), with in-house patient management software under development, and a growing client base in the South African mining and corporate occupational health sectors.
We are a commercially minded, growth-oriented business with strong clinical infrastructure being built, a clear service vision, and a group structure designed to scale. What we need now is a senior clinician who can lead that next phase of growth.
2. Why We Are Hiring and What This Role Actually Is
We are looking for a clinician who is ambitious enough to contribute to the commercial growth of Guud Audiology and the Group.
The successful candidate should expect to be the apart of the commercial and clinical mind driving Guud Audiology's day-to-day direction, growth pipeline, key client relationships, and service evolution.
This means owning the quality and governance of all clinical delivery, supervising and developing the clinical team, and taking an active leadership role in business development, client growth, service expansion, and the commercial decisions that shape where Guud Audiology goes next.
We are looking for someone who finds the commercial side of audiology genuinely interesting, who enjoys client conversations, understands how to price and position a service, thinks about market opportunities, and is motivated by building something, not just running it.
3. Key Responsibilities
Commercial Leadership and Business Development
- Growth ownership: Take primary ownership of Guud Audiology's revenue growth including identifying new client opportunities, developing and pitching proposals for MAC deployments and occupational health programmes, and expanding the existing client base.
- Client relationships: Lead key commercial relationships with mining, corporate occupational health clients and community projects, bringing both clinical credibility and business acumen to those conversations.
- Strategy and service expansion: Provide strategic input on service line expansion, pricing, and go-to-market decisions including the rollout of the fixed practice, the extension of our hearing aid programme, and potential adjacent occupational health offerings.
- Market and competitive intelligence: Guide the ExCo on where Guud Audiology should be investing, what the market is doing, where competitors are positioned, and what the best growth levers are given our clinical and operational footprint.
- Commercial case-making: Contribute clinical leadership to the business case for new hires (audiometrists, occupational hygienists, speech therapists), new equipment, and new contractual structures.
Clinical Delivery
- Diagnostics and fitting: Conduct and oversee full diagnostic audiometry (pure tone, speech, tympanometry, otoscopy) and hearing aid fitting on MAC deployments and at the fixed practice, in line with relevant legislation.
- Clinical assessment and sign-off: Determine and document necessary clinical reporting and guidelines around audiology and occ health.
- Hearing aid fitting: Select and fit hearing aids across the full range of loss severities, ear mould versus dome selection, and real-ear measurement as required.
Clinical Governance and Team Leadership
- Supervision: Act as HPCSA-compliant clinical supervisor for audiology and support staff on the MAC fleet, ensuring all activity is within scope and properly signed off.
- Clinical standards: Own and maintain Guud Audiology’s clinical SOPs, calibration protocols, and patient consent and counselling standards.
- Team development: Lead and develop the clinical team as it grows recruiting, mentoring, and building a strong clinical culture.
- Compliance: Provide clinical input into Guud Audiology’s HPCSA compliance structures, including the clinical staffing entity and the supervision arrangements required for HPCSA registration.
Fixed Practice Build-Out
- Service design: Lead the clinical design and service architecture of the mobile macs and brick and mortar, including the patient referral pathway between the MAC (occupational/volume) and fixed practice (diagnostic depth, hearing aid ongoing care, medical aid billing).
- Launch planning: Contribute to equipment specification, clinical workflow design, and the systems and staffing needed to launch the fixed practice.
Systems and Platform Input
- Clinical systems: Provide hands-on clinical input into in-house patient management platform, audiogram workflow, clinical sign-off, reporting, and billing integration ensuring the system reflects how audiologists actually work.
- Performance metrics: Contribute to the definition of clinical KPIs that link to commercial performance: throughput per site day, fitting conversion rates, referral-to-practice uptake.
4. Candidate RequirementsNon-Negotiable
- HPCSA registration: Bachelor's degree or equivalent in Audiology from an accredited South African university, with current HPCSA registration as an Audiologist.
- Clinical experience: Minimum 5 years' post-registration clinical experience, with solid competency across diagnostic audiometry and hearing aid fitting across the full loss severity range.
- Commercial track record: A genuine commercial orientation, where you need to be able to point to specific examples of having driven business growth, expanded a client base, developed a service proposition, or led commercial conversations with real accountability for the outcome.
- Mobility: Willingness and ability to travel to MAC site deployments, including mine sites, with overnight travel as required.
- Driver's licence: A valid driver's licence.
What the Right Person Looks Like
Beyond the formal requirements, the candidate who will thrive in this role is likely someone who:
- Has felt constrained in previous clinical roles because they wanted to do more than just see patients but they wanted to influence strategy, build the service and grow the business.
- Has some frustration with large corporates or bureaucratic clinical environments and wants the autonomy to actually make decisions and see the results.
- Is energized by variety, where one day they are at a mine-site deployment on Tuesday, a client proposal on Wednesday, a fitting clinic on Thursday.
- Is confident enough to guide the director on clinical and commercial audiology decisions.
- Has thought about starting their own practice or has run a clinical department or service line with P&L-adjacent responsibility.
Preferred Experience
- Occupational health: Occupational health audiology experience, including hearing conservation programme management for mining or industrial clients.
- Hearing aid programmes: Hearing aid programme management, supplier relationships, range selection, pricing, and fitting programme design.
- Supervision: Experience supervising audiology staff.
- Equipment: Familiarity with KUDUwave or comparable field diagnostic platforms and remote audiology services.
- Operations: Some exposure to practice management, clinical operations, or business administration beyond direct patient care in a practice or mobile enviroment.
- Ear mould impressions and hearing protection: Experience taking ear mould impressions and fitting custom hearing protection (including noise-cancelling/attenuating ear plugs) is an advantage.
5. Why Join Guud Audiology
- Real autonomy in a business that is actively growing, not a fixed role in a structured corporate hierarchy.
- The infrastructure is already being built around clinical systems, patient management software, regulatory frameworks, and a defined service spectrum. You are joining when those foundations are ready to be built on.
- Direct access to and influence over group-level strategic decisions as this is a role that sits close to the top, not buried in a clinical department.
- A varied, high-interest operating environment: mine sites, corporate OH clients, developing fixed practice, hearing aid programmes, and adjacent occupational health service opportunities.
- The chance to build something!
Pay: R40 000,00 - R60 000,00 per month
Work Location: In person
