Senior Healthcare Planner

BWBR is seeking a senior Healthcare Planner Lead to help shape the future of healthcare design for its clients and the firm. This role blends deep planning expertise and leadership, business development partnership, and industry visibility. It is designed for an experienced healthcare planner who understands how work is won, how trust is built with healthcare executives, and how planning excellence translates into long-term client relationships. Working closely with Principals-in-Charge and the Healthcare Market Practice Leader, this leader plays a central role in opening doors, shaping pursuits, excelling in interviews, and guiding complex planning efforts following successful pursuits. This is a leadership role with influence across strategy, pursuits, planning, and thought leadership.

Responsibilities

Serve as the lead healthcare planner on key projects strategically important to the firm and its healthcare market growth; Provide hands-on leadership throughout the planning process, including visioning, clinical and operational analysis, space programming, functional planning, and validation with executive and clinical stakeholders; Lead stakeholders through complex decision-making environments involving multiple service lines, user groups, and stakeholder priorities; Ensure planning solutions are operationally sound, technically rigorous, and defensible at the executive and board level; Establish planning frameworks and methodologies that can be replicated and scaled across the healthcare practice; Represent BWBR at national and regional healthcare conferences, professional organizations, and industry events; Participate in speaking engagements, panels, and committees; Contribute to thought leadership through writing and content creation; Help position the firm in healthcare sub-markets such as critical access and rural healthcare, academic health, pediatric health, women's and infant's care, oncology, neuroscience, outpatient environments, and ASCs; Lead development of healthcare planning tools, benchmarking, and internal resources; Contribute to maintaining and evolving benchmarking databases and planning standards; Assist in mentorship of the Healthcare Planning team; Support career development for mid-career planners and designers; Partner with PICs and the Healthcare Market Practice Leader to shape healthcare market strategy and pursuit positioning; Serve as one of BWBR's senior subject matter experts in healthcare planning, programming, and medical space strategy; Cultivate trusted relationships with healthcare executives, system leaders, and construction and engineering partners; Provide strategic insight into healthcare trends, care delivery models, operational transformation, and capital planning; Serve as a key team member on healthcare pursuits, contributing to strategy development, planning narratives, and interview preparation; Collaborate with marketing teams on proposal content, messaging, and graphics; Help mentor teams on pursuit strategy and interview performance

Requirements

Bachelor's or Master's degree in Architecture or a related AEC discipline; 10+ years of experience in healthcare design and planning; Demonstrated leadership experience in healthcare planning and client engagement; Strong understanding of healthcare operations, space standards, and regulatory requirements; Proven ability to present and clearly convey ideas to executive leadership and user group stakeholders; Experience in contributing meaningfully to pursuits, interviews, and business development efforts

Nice to have

Architecture licensure preferred; ACHA certification and/or EDAC (or similar accreditation) preferred; Expertise in additional new healthcare sub-markets