Academic Health Sciences Market Leader

Position Summary

We seek an individual with passion and expertise in the planning and design of Academic Health Sciences (AHS) facilities within Higher Education (HE), to co-lead our AHS market.

The primary role is to collaboratively lead the continued growth, evolution and positioning of our national AHS practice, and strategically leveraging our portfolio and your expertise to capture broader AHS opportunities on campuses throughout the country. Your goal is to attract and execute work at least as strong as the group's work in the past five years, delivering exceptionally designed projects.

Principal Duties and Responsibilities

Lead project teams in a fashion consistent with our firm’s core values through collaborative engagement with other firm leaders, team leaders and staff to attract new clients and build a long-term, sustainable future for our AHS team.

Business Development - Successfully lead the development of strategies and the implementation of marketing efforts for the AHS team. Achieve mutually-established annual business objectives, by:

• establishing new, or refreshing existing, high-level client relationships in the AHS environment (at the President, Dean and VP levels),
• building upon and promoting the team’s evolving reputation,
• nurturing the team’s ongoing client relationships,
• guiding the strategic preparation for interviews,
• advocating for and positioning our multi-dimensional service offerings, and
• proactively engaging with potential clients through idea-driven presentations and publications at conferences or in periodicals of value to them.

Project Development - Lead teams to deliver transformational experiences for owners and users, providing pre-design and design phase leadership, leading the generation and translation of design and planning concepts into final solutions for AHS projects, with the overall responsibility for client satisfaction, service quality and financial performance, delivering upon:

• the client’s vision,
• the quality of the work performed,
• design excellence,
• overall client service,
• all project goals, and
• the assignment of appropriate staff to projects.

Leadership - Create, motivate and lead a growing AHS team, by:

• collaborating with other team leaders to identify and achieve annual and long-range AHS market goals in collaboration with the overall HE team,
• establishing an environment that encourages experimentation, innovation, design creativity and collaboration,
• directly contributing a high level of energy and enthusiasm to the team,
• fostering a spirit of collaborative problem solving and design excellence, and
• mentoring and developing less-experienced team members in all aspects of client service, design approach and project delivery.