Healthcare Principal

Jacobs; San Diego (CA); On-site; USD 182,000 - 285,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

401(k) plan

Stock purchase

Paid holidays

Job summary

Jacobs is seeking a Healthcare Market Leader to drive growth and leadership across the Western U.S. You will guide executive planning, client relationships, and capital program delivery for complex healthcare facilities, operating in active clinical environments.

You will develop market offerings, lead multidisciplinary teams, and shape client strategies while expanding Jacobs' national healthcare practice through relationships and measurable results.

Qualifications

• 15+ years of healthcare planning, healthcare consulting, program management, or capital project experience.
• Proven ability to build and manage executive client relationships and communicate complex program information to boards and C-suite.
• Strong understanding of healthcare operations, strategic planning, facility planning, and capital program development.
• Excellent written, verbal, presentation, facilitation, negotiation, and leadership skills.
• Experience leading large, complex healthcare planning or delivery engagements.

Responsibilities

• Lead and grow Jacobs' healthcare client relationships and market growth initiatives throughout California and the Western U.S.
• Serve as a trusted advisor to executive leadership teams, facilities leaders, real estate teams and capital planning stakeholders on facility planning, operational performance, capital investments, and growth strategies.
• Translate healthcare clients’ priorities into executable program roadmaps, delivery strategies, budgets, schedules, governance models, and performance measures through planning and feasibility studies.
• Support project delivery teams through planning, design, construction, and activation strategies.
• Develop market-specific service offerings, tools, templates, and best practices to strengthen Jacobs' healthcare delivery platform.
• Develop and mentor multidisciplinary teams while fostering collaboration and professional growth.
• Lead pursuit strategies, proposal development, and represent the firm at industry events to expand market visibility.

Skills

Executive relationships

Strategic planning

Leadership

Communication

Stakeholder management

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

At Jacobs, we're challenging today to reinvent tomorrow by solving the world's most critical problems for thriving cities, resilient environments, mission-critical outcomes, operational advancement, scientific discovery and cutting-edge manufacturing, turning abstract ideas into realities that transform the world for good.

Your impact

As a global leader in Program Management and Construction Management (PM/CM) services, Jacobs partners with healthcare organizations to deliver complex capital programs from strategic planning through design, construction, activation, and occupancy. We serve as an extension of our clients' teams, helping them make informed decisions that improve patient care, operational performance, and long-term growth.

We are seeking a Healthcare Market Leader to support the continued growth of our Healthcare PMCM practice in the western region. In this leadership role, you will serve as a trusted advisor to healthcare executives, lead strategic planning and operational consulting engagements, and drive business development across the healthcare market. The ideal candidate brings healthcare design and construction knowledge, a strong client network, and the ability to lead teams through complex capital programs from early strategic planning through activation.

The successful candidate is a strategic healthcare market builder and trusted executive advisor who can identify opportunities, shape client strategies, win work, and ensure disciplined delivery. They bring credibility with healthcare leaders, understand the operational sensitivities of building in active clinical environments, and can elevate the firm’s national healthcare practice through relationships, market insight, team leadership, and measurable results.

Responsibilities

• Lead and grow the Firm’s healthcare client relationships and market growth initiatives throughout California and the Western U.S.
• Serve as a trusted advisor to executive leadership teams, facilities leaders, real estate teams and capital planning stakeholders on facility planning, operational performance, capital investments, and growth strategies.
• Translate healthcare clients’ strategic, operational, clinical, and capital priorities into executable program roadmaps, delivery strategies, budgets, schedules, governance models, and performance measures through strategic planning, master planning, programming, feasibility studies, and operational improvement engagements.
• Support project delivery teams through planning, design, construction, and activation strategies.
• Develop market-specific service offerings, tools, templates, and best practices that strengthen the firm’s healthcare delivery platform and differentiate the firm in competitive pursuits.
• Develop and mentor multidisciplinary teams while fostering collaboration and professional growth.
• Lead pursuit strategies, proposal development, and represent the firm at industry events, conferences, client meetings, thought leadership activities within the healthcare market to expand brand visibility and market credibility.

Here’s what you’ll need

• Bachelor’s degree, or equivalent related experience in lieu of a degree.
• 15+ years of healthcare planning, healthcare consulting, program management, or capital project experience.
• Proven ability to build and manage executive client relationships, facilitate decision-making among diverse stakeholders, and communicate complex program information to boards, C-suite leaders, physicians, facilities teams, and project teams.
• Strong understanding of healthcare operations, strategic planning, facility planning, and capital program development.
• Excellent written, verbal, presentation, facilitation, negotiation, and leadership skills.
• Experience leading large, complex healthcare planning or delivery engagements.

Ideally, You’ll Also Have

• Experience working with academic medical centers, integrated health systems, and large healthcare providers.
• Deep knowledge of healthcare facility planning, design, construction, activation, phasing, logistics, regulatory compliance, and operations within hospitals or active clinical environments.
• Ability to lead geographically distributed teams and create consistent delivery standards across multiple clients, regions, and project types.
• Background in strategic planning, operational assessments, transition planning, and activation.
• Established healthcare industry network throughout California and the Western U.S.
• Experience leading multidisciplinary teams and developing future leaders.

#WestPMCM

Our health and welfare benefits are designed to invest in you, and in the things you care about. Your health. Your well-being. Your security. Your future. Employees have access to medical, dental, vision, and basic life insurance, a 401(k) plan, and the ability to purchase company stock at a discount. Eligible employees may also enroll in a deferred compensation plan or the Executive Deferral Plan. Jacobs has an unlimited U.S. Personalized Paid Time Off (PPTO) policy for full-time salaried/exempt employees, seven paid holidays, and caregiver leave. And certain roles may be eligible for additional rewards, including merit increases, performance discretionary bonus, and stock.

The base salary range for this position is $182,300.00 to $285,000.00. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status.

Job posted on November 02, 2026. This position will be open for at least 3 days.

Onsite employees are expected to attend a Jacobs Workplace on a full-time basis, as required by the nature of their role.

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