General Manager, Healthcare Leadership

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🌽 Illinois – Remote

🌽 Illinois – Remote

💵 $175k - $225k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

👔 Manager

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WittKieffer

WebsiteLinkedInAll Job Openings

201 - 500 employees

Founded 1969

🏥 Healthcare

🍽️ Food & Beverage

⚖️ Legal

💰 $419k Venture Round on 2018-11

Healthcare • Food & Beverage • Legal

WittKieffer is a premier executive search and leadership advisory firm specializing in building leadership teams within the healthcare, life sciences, education, and social impact sectors. The company offers services in executive search, professional search, interim leadership, and leadership advisory. WittKieffer is dedicated to assembling leadership that enhances quality of life globally, working extensively with C-suite, board members, clinical leadership, and other specialized sectors. The firm prides itself on its mission-driven approach, which emphasizes accountability, candor, empathy, and integrity.

📋 Description

• 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