WittKieffer
WittKieffer
201 – 500 Employees
Food & BeverageHealthcareLegal
WittKieffer is an executive search and leadership advisory firm that helps organizations build effective leadership teams. Its work spans healthcare, life sciences, education, and social impact, with services including executive search, professional search, interim leadership, and leadership advisory. The firm partners with C-suite executives, boards, clinical leaders, and other specialized leadership groups, bringing a mission-focused approach grounded in accountability, candor, empathy, and integrity.

General Manager, Healthcare Leadership - Remote Illinois

Lead and grow WittKieffer’s Healthcare Leaders platform, community, and events business. Drive sponsorships, revenue, strategic partnerships, and healthcare leadership convenings.

Description

  • Own HCL as a dedicated growth platform and operating business
  • Build a practical multi-year strategy that supports WittKieffer’s mission and market direction
  • Identify growth opportunities across healthcare, life sciences, higher education, academic medicine, emerging sciences, and investor-backed markets
  • Convert strategic priorities into annual plans, milestones, budgets, and measurable results
  • Build diversified revenue through convenings, sponsorships, event participation, partner programs, executive dinners, forums, digital content, and membership or subscription offerings
  • Develop financial plans and oversee the HCL P&L, budgets, revenue, expenses, sponsor retention, event profitability, pipeline, and return on investment
  • Source, develop, and maintain sponsor and partner relationships
  • Direct the planning and delivery of the Healthcare Leaders Conference, JPM Week reception, executive dinner series, and other approved gatherings
  • Oversee event calendars, budgets, vendors, schedules, sponsorship commitments, invitations, participant communications, and post-event engagement
  • Create repeatable operating practices that strengthen quality, accountability, scalability, and sponsor and attendee experiences
  • Apply technology, data, and relationship-management tools to improve invitations, participant tracking, sponsor reporting, and business-development connections
  • Build a high-performing team and partner with the Marketing and Commercial Strategy & Insights teams
  • Align HCL with WittKieffer’s firmwide priorities, brand direction, and go-to-market strategy
  • Share insights across WittKieffer, HCL, and the broader market, converting activity into client engagement, market visibility, sponsor relationships, and business-development opportunities
  • Shape HCL’s brand architecture while protecting the Healthcare Leaders legacy and credibility
  • Unify events, content, thought leadership, sponsorships, and business development into a consistent external presence
  • Coordinate internal and external contributors across marketing, events, business development, operations, sponsors, speakers, vendors, and practice leadership
  • Oversee vendors and contractors while building effective relationships with internal stakeholders
  • Create a focused 12-month roadmap, strengthen the sponsorship model, improve event operations, recommend brand architecture, and establish a reporting dashboard
  • Deliver revenue growth, sponsor retention, community expansion, excellent event execution, strong brand positioning, and measurable contributions to WittKieffer’s thought leadership and business development

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree required; an advanced degree is preferred but not mandatory
  • Relevant experience in business management, events, sponsorships, media, associations, professional services, or community-based commercial platforms may substitute
  • At least 10 years of relevant experience in business management, revenue growth, sponsorships, events, convening platforms, professional associations, industry communities, media, or professional services
  • Proven success growing a small or emerging business, product line, program, or platform with disciplined resource management
  • Experience creating sponsorship, partnership, event, membership, or community-based revenue models
  • Strong project management and execution skills, including budget ownership, vendor oversight, and cross-functional coordination
  • Experience engaging 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
  • Willingness and ability to travel regularly for HCL events, sponsor meetings, market engagement, and internal collaboration
  • Commercial mindset with strategic judgment, disciplined execution, relationship-building ability, collaboration skills, brand sensitivity, resourcefulness, and results focus

Benefits

  • Target bonus equal to 20% of base salary
  • Medical insurance
  • Dental insurance
  • Vision insurance
  • 401(k) plan
  • Life insurance
  • Disability insurance
  • Generous paid time off

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