General Manager, Healthcare Leadership
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General Manager growing WittKieffer’s Healthcare Leaders community and events platform. Expanding sponsorships, revenue, strategic partnerships, and healthcare leadership convenings.
Responsibilities:
- Lead HCL as a focused growth platform and operating business
- Develop a practical multi-year strategy aligned with WittKieffer’s mission and market strategy
- Define expansion opportunities across healthcare, life sciences, higher education, academic medicine, emerging sciences, and investor-backed markets
- Translate strategic priorities into annual plans, milestones, budgets, and measurable outcomes
- Develop diversified revenue streams including convenings, sponsorships, event participation, partner programs, executive dinners, forums, digital content, and membership or subscription concepts
- Create and manage financial plans; manage the HCL P&L, budgets, revenue, expenses, sponsor retention, event profitability, pipeline, and return on investment
- Identify and cultivate sponsors and partners
- Lead planning and execution of the Healthcare Leaders Conference, JPM Week reception, executive dinner series, and other approved convenings
- Manage event calendars, budgets, vendors, timelines, sponsorship deliverables, invitations, participant communications, and post-event follow-up
- Establish repeatable operating processes to improve quality, accountability, scalability, and sponsor and attendee experience
- Use technology, data, and relationship management tools to improve invitations, participant tracking, sponsor reporting, and business development connectivity
- Build a high-performance team and coordinate with Marketing and Commercial Strategy & Insights teams
- Integrate HCL with WittKieffer’s firmwide priorities, brand strategies, and go-to-market strategies
- Exchange insights between WittKieffer, HCL, and the broader market and translate activity into client engagement, market visibility, sponsor relationships, and business development opportunities
- Develop HCL brand architecture while preserving Healthcare Leaders’ legacy and credibility
- Connect events, content, thought leadership, sponsorships, and business development into a coherent external presentation
- Coordinate internal and external resources, including marketing, events, business development, operations, sponsors, speakers, vendors, and practice leaders
- Manage vendors and contractors and build strong relationships with internal stakeholders
- Develop a focused 12-month plan, strengthen the sponsorship model, improve event operating cadence, recommend brand architecture, and create a reporting dashboard
- Drive revenue growth, sponsor retention, community growth, high-quality event execution, brand positioning, and measurable contribution to WittKieffer’s thought leadership and business development
Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree required; advanced degree preferred but not required
- Equivalent experience in business management, events, sponsorships, media, associations, professional services, or community-based commercial platforms will be considered
- Ten or more years of relevant experience in business management, revenue growth, sponsorships, events, convening platforms, professional associations, industry communities, media, or professional services
- Demonstrated ability to grow a small or emerging business, product line, program, and/or platform with disciplined resource management
- Experience developing sponsorship, partnership, event, membership, or community-based revenue models
- Strong project management and execution experience, including budget ownership, vendor management, and cross-functional coordination
- Experience working with senior executives, investors, board members, sponsors, industry leaders, or professional services partners
- Familiarity with healthcare, life sciences, higher education, academic medicine, emerging sciences, or investor-backed markets is preferred
- Ability to travel regularly for HCL events, sponsor meetings, market engagement, and internal collaboration
- Commercial orientation, strategic thinking, execution discipline, relationship building, collaboration, brand judgment, resourcefulness, and drive for results
Benefits:
- Target bonus of 20% of base salary
- Medical insurance
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- 401(k)
- Life insurance
- Disability insurance
- Generous paid time off
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