Senior Healthcare Planner - Advisory Services

About the role

A Healthcare Planner is a leader who has exceptional planning and facilitation skills to work directly with clients. A manager of company and project resources to successfully complete projects. A strategic business thinker who can create, apply, and implement methodologies, standardization and processes across practice areas. Someone who creates client connections to generate project leads and develop business opportunities.

Responsibilities

• Anticipate client needs and proactively solve before client knows what is needed.
• Actively participates in decision making with clients and client executives.
• Promotes polished proposal writing, scoping, pricing, and project execution skills.
• Manages the staffing of client managers.
• Identifies and leads process improvement to streamline internal project delivery and champions internal change management and team coaching.
• Visionary thinker with the ability to lead clients and team to bring to a consensus.
• Can lead project QA, QC and project risk.
• Works closely with service area and practice area leaders supporting aspects of service line development, planning, and billing.
• Willing to take the lead with needed in any aspect of project delivery (not expertise).
• Actively participates in thought leadership: blogs, podcasts, conferences, white papers, etc.
• Builds collaborative and productive relationships with junior advisors and clients.
• Contributes and supports new product/service lines and development.
• Champions use of tools and analytics.
• Leads and coordinates project pursuits and heavily engaged in business development.
• Subject matter and project delivery expertise to develop and lead client and internal workshops.
• Able to perform in a variety of roles through the full project life cycle with both specialist and functional knowledge.
• A leader and mentor to team members and respective practice area members.
• Contributes to product development and can lead a service/product line.
• Assists in aligning the team culturally and with MPS mission, vision, and values.

Focus Acute Care and Ambulatory Facilities

• Experience in developing and implementing planning studies.
• Understanding of operational planning, facilities management, facility construction, managing lease agreements and policies.
• Research, investigate and document healthcare facility existing conditions and adequacy in accordance with applicable codes, FGI, and best practices.
• Support strategy related planning solutions, including forecasting need driving facility demand.
• Analyze and develop plans to assist with the development and evaluation of site criteria regarding client and clinical needs.
• Manage space and functional program documentation.
• Provide Revit, AutoCAD and graphic support for healthcare facility and strategic planning activities.
• Analysis of existing facilities via the assessment of square footage and key room quantity information against owner and industry benchmarks and standards.
• Develop space planning concepts, test fits, evaluations, participate in and/or lead facility walkthroughs (GEMBA walks), facilitate user/focus group sessions in planning, programming, schematic design and design development meetings.
• Apply healthcare delivery models and develop operational alternatives with supporting space requirements.
• Support development of complete healthcare planning documentation, facility master planning, and functional planning.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in architecture, interior design, or related field.
• Minimum 10-15 years relevant experience on planning healthcare projects (acute care, ambulatory, essential services, etc.).
• Ideal accreditation from the American College of Healthcare Architects.
• Familiarity with Microsoft Suite, Revit, Bluebeam, SketchUp, AutoCAD and other related tools to work in a multi-discipline team.
• Strong technical and critical thinking skills that apply in development of planning projects and transfers into documentation, applying thorough understanding of codes, standards, and compliance requirements.
• Ideal additional certifications or accreditations for LEAN, EDAC, WELL AP, LEED AP, etc.
• Proficiency in computational design preferred.
• Proficiency in Power BI and Adobe Suite preferred.