Global Children's and Women's Health Practice Leader

CannonDesign has an exciting opportunity for a Global Children's and Women's Health Practice Leader.  This position may be filled remotely in the United States.  Preference may be given to candidates that can work in one of the CannonDesign locations. Take a look at the description below. If you think your skills and experience make you a good match for this position, we’d love to hear from you. We’re looking for creative, curious, empathetic people to join our Living-Centered Design movement.   ABOUT OUR FIRM CannonDesign is an integrated design solutions firm focused on helping people continuously flourish. Whether designing for innovations in health, new scientific discoveries, equity in education or the next big idea in business, we use our Living-Centered Design approach to help organizations realize widespread change. Our ability to design transformational places, plans and strategies is why Fast Company named us a World Changing Company and one of the most innovative design firms in the world.   VISION FOR THIS ROLE CannonDesign has a successful, flourishing Children’s and Women’s Health Practice and portfolio of strategically impactful planning and successful delivery of large architectural projects for top Children’s and Women’s hospitals across North America.  With succession planning in mind, we are seeking leadership to continue our impact within the pediatric market space as well as expanding our reputation for innovative design of all environments for women’s and children’s wellbeing - beyond but including – premiere children’s hospitals. Our firm aspires to drive innovative solutions to the world’s greatest problems using a living-centered design framework, focused on ideas that help people continuously flourish. The leader that fills this role will have an opportunity to shape our future child-focused practices, which may include a greatly expanded practice that spans education, health, social impact, child development and wellbeing, and environments that support families to thrive.  

WHAT YOU WILL DO

Expectations of success include:

• Market Growth: Developing new business opportunities with new and current client partners to achieve top line targets, which will support a minimum 10% growth of the practice year over year.
• Client Leadership: Leading, engaging, and partnering, at the highest levels, with our clients on billable project specific work. Advancing innovative solutions that differentiate the firm and foster strong client relationships that present opportunities for future work.
• Market Brand Enhancement: Acting as a leading voice for the market both externally and internally, visible in speaking events, writing and other activities that promote the firm and our work. Bringing Living Centered Design and our Firm’s purpose – to help people continuously flourish – to life in every touchpoint with clients and partners.
• Practice Support: Engaging in activities to advance the Firm, the Practice, and each Office location . Expanding the practice by working with and mentoring our current team members and recruiting talented candidates to be part of high-performance teams.
• Convergence: Work closely with Blue Cottage, our consulting arm who also is deeply connected to the Children’s and Women’s market, as well as other groups in the firm who work to advance a better world for children, women, and families.

Areas of Focus

• Women’s and Children’s Practice Leadership: Advancement of strategic initiatives and client pursuit discussions and strategies. As part of the Firm-wide Women’s and Children’s team you will own and be accountable for the development of a Women’s and Children’s Practice Business Plan. This plan will outline strategies and actionable items that advance client engagement and development, market differentiation, and team building / leadership to foster the growth of the Practice in concert with the Firm-wide Healthcare Market goals. You will participate and engage with other market and practice leaders in ways to improve our practice globally and expand beyond pediatric healthcare systems and our current focus on hospital system building typologies.

         We expect you to participate and engage in ways to improve our Practice globally.

• Be a leading voice for the Practice both externally and internally. Be visible in speaking events, writing and other activities that promote the firm and our work. Ideally, present at 1-2 conferences per year and write a minimum of 2 articles per year.
• Leverage your experience and connections in the marketplace and collaborate with Leaders and other office and firm-wide resources with the goal of leading Innovative solutions and advancing our brand and market presence nationa