Associate / Associate Partner - Healthcare PlannerStrategic Leadership Role | Client-Facing | Business Development Focus£75,000 - £95,000 + Car Allowance + Benefits | Flexible Working AvailableFor experienced professionals from a consultancy or client-side background

We are working in partnership with a market-leading, multi-disciplinary construction consultancy to appoint an Associate / Associate Partner level Healthcare Planner. This is a key strategic role within their expanding healthcare and life sciences team, focusing on estate strategy, master planning, and business case development for some of the UK’s most significant healthcare and pharmaceutical infrastructure programmes.

This role is ideal for a client-side or consultancy-based Project Manager or Strategic Advisor with deep experience in the planning and delivery of healthcare estates — and who is now looking to step further into strategic advisory, client engagement, and project-winning responsibilities.

The Opportunity

As a senior member of the team, you will help shape healthcare environments that are operationally efficient, future-ready, and compliant with evolving clinical and technical requirements.

You’ll work closely with NHS trusts, private providers, and pharmaceutical clients — developing strategic planning documents, advising on transformation and redesign programmes, and directly contributing to winning new work and growing key client accounts.

Key Responsibilities

Strategic Advisory & Planning

• Lead the development of estate strategies and masterplans for NHS trusts, private hospitals, and pharmaceutical organisations.
• Support service redesign, capital planning, and feasibility studies that inform investment decisions.
• Produce high-quality strategic outline and full business cases to secure approval and funding.
• Advise clients at the earliest project stages, shaping briefs and aligning objectives with national and local healthcare strategies.

Client Engagement & Relationship Management

• Act as a trusted advisor to senior stakeholders and estates leads.
• Lead user engagement workshops to ensure planning outcomes reflect operational and clinical needs.
• Cultivate and maintain long-term relationships across both public and private healthcare sectors.

Design Collaboration & Compliance Oversight

• Collaborate with design teams to optimise clinical layouts, lab environments, and pharmaceutical facilities.
• Ensure compliance with NHS guidelines, clinical safety standards, and best practices in infection control and sustainability.
• Champion the integration of digital health technologies and innovation into planning approaches.

Business Development & Winning Work

• Contribute to and lead bid strategies, proposals, and presentations to secure new commissions.
• Work with internal BD teams to identify emerging opportunities and position the team for success.
• Bring a commercial mindset, helping to drive repeat business and expand existing client accounts.

About You

• Consultancy or client-side background in healthcare planning, capital projects, or estates strategy.
• Proven experience in strategic planning, business case development, and stakeholder management.
• Familiarity with healthcare or pharmaceutical environments is essential.
• Strong track record in client engagement and contributing to successful project wins.
• Excellent communication skills and commercial awareness.
• Comfortable advising clients from early-stage feasibility through to design input and funding approvals.

What’s in It for You?

• £75,000 - £95,000 per annum
• Car allowance
• 28 days annual leave
• Private pension contribution
• Comprehensive healthcare
• Tailored CPD and structured career development
• Flexible / hybrid working options
• Influence high-profile UK and international healthcare schemes

If you’re ready to step into a strategic, client-facing leadership role that blends planning, advisory, and business-winning responsibilities, this could be the career move you've been waiting for.

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