Healthcare Solutions & Development Director

Role Description

This role will lead the development, planning, and execution strategy of complex healthcare relocation projects—from early client engagement through delivery. This role is responsible for translating client needs into actionable relocation strategies, defining logistics and operational plans, building project scope and budgets, and ensuring execution is set up for success.

You operate at the intersection of client development, operational planning, and project delivery, serving as the bridge between opportunity and execution. This is not a traditional project management role—you are responsible for defining how the relocation will work before it begins and ensuring that strategy holds through execution.

How You’ll Contribute:

• Assist in the vetting, developing, and budgeting for complex healthcare and laboratory relocation projects.
• Oversee all operational, administrative, and strategic activities from initial planning through final execution.
• Accountable for overall portfolio and project team success while leading and directing a cross-functional team responsible for delivery.
• Develop project scopes, proposals, budgets, and schedules, ensuring alignment across internal team members, clients, vendors, and trades.
• Establish clear roles, responsibilities, and workflows, enabling your team to execute efficiently while maintaining accountability for quality, timing, and financial performance.
• Guide communications, key decisions, and change management throughout the project lifecycle as the primary point of contact for senior stakeholders.
• Develop and implement standard protocols, processes, and documentation to drive operational consistency and compliance with healthcare and laboratory industry standards.
• Structure project plans and coordinate resources in partnership with design, equipment, transition planning, and construction teams.
• Oversee financial controls including invoice approvals and purchase orders, while delegating day-to-day coordination activities appropriately across the team.
• Provide oversight of project progress through established reporting rhythms, ensuring milestone completion and proactively addressing risks and constraints.
• Guide your team through critical phases of execution, including final building walk-throughs and post-project follow-ups, to ensure successful outcomes and client satisfaction.
• Ensure visibility, organization, and efficiency across all project workflows leveraging collaboration and project tools.
• Provide full oversight across multiple projects simultaneously by setting direction, prioritizing efforts, and empowering your team to deliver.
• Maintain continuous communication with senior-level internal and external stakeholders, reinforce adherence to company standards, and drive operational excellence through strong leadership, decision-making, and team accountability.
• Frequent travel, up to 50–75%, is required.

Qualifications

• Four (4) year college degree or a minimum of 7+ years of equivalent experience resulting in broad knowledge of a field related to the job.
• Ability to translate complex, ambiguous client needs into clear, executable healthcare relocation and logistics strategies.
• Experience developing scopes of work, phasing plans, and operational approaches for large-scale, multi-phase projects.
• Strong systems thinking with the ability to connect logistics, facilities, equipment, and operational workflows.
• Ability to build and validate budgets, cost models, and pricing strategies aligned with operational plans.
• Strong understanding of key cost drivers including labor, warehousing, transportation, and equipment handling.
• Experience supporting or leading client-facing solution development and pursuit efforts.
• Understanding of relocation logistics, equipment handling, and phased occupancy within active healthcare environments.
• Ability to anticipate operational risks and develop practical, field-ready solutions.
• Experience guiding teams through high-risk, complex execution environments.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite and project planning tools (e.g., Microsoft Project or equivalent).
• Ability to interpret plans, phasing diagrams, and operational workflows.

Company Description

Hilldrup is one of the largest and most honored agency groups in the entire industry, operating facilities in Virginia, Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida. Comprised of over 500 employees, Hilldrup moves professionals, families, and businesses domestically and internationally as well as provides logistics and workplace solutions services to meet the needs of its clients, which includes Fortune 100 companies, federal government agencies, universities, and hospitals.

Among the over 500 employees at Hilldrup, it is not uncommon to meet someone who has been with the company 10, 20, or even 30 years. Hilldrup is an award-winning workplace where employees feel valued, are encouraged to grow professionally, and are empowered to build lasting careers.

Our values are very important to the organization as they guide our employees and company in all that we do each day. Our values include Empowered Accountability, Uncompromised Integrity, Unwavering Commitment, Fearless Communication, Infectious Positivity, and Purposeful Agility.