VP of Consultant Relations

What you will do

• Own Garner’s relationships with the largest, most complex national broker and consulting firms , becoming the trusted, go-to name for practice leaders and SMEs and setting how Garner shows up with top distributors.
• Define and drive the business-development plan for a national portfolio , consistently converting consultant relationships into closed distribution and firm-level data-licensing deals.
• Orchestrate cross-functional resources at scale — Sales, Product, Marketing, Client Success, Operations — behind the biggest partnerships, and channel consultant insight into Garner’s go-to-market strategy.
• Design the data-driven approach for the whole portfolio — contracting targets, timing, and closure rates — and use it to steer where the team invests.
• Bring deep, current expertise across the major firms and the broader benefits ecosystem, reframing Garner’s value to each firm’s priorities as a credible educator and thought partner in the market.

What we're looking for

• 8+ years in employee-benefits consulting / broker or channel-alliances roles with national-firm scope , and an existing senior rolodex across the major firms — you build and own trusted relationships end-to-end and set how Garner shows up with top distributors.
• You operate with data rigor at portfolio scale : you design the goals, metrics, and tooling that track contracting targets, timing, and closure rates and steer where to invest.
• You know the benefits-consulting and broker landscape cold — deep, current expertise across the major firms and the broader ecosystem — and are seen as an educator and thought partner to sophisticated buyers.
• You orchestrate cross-functional resources at scale ( Sales, Product, Marketing, Client Success, Ops ) behind the biggest partnerships and channel partner insight into go-to-market strategy.
• You drive national business development — targeting the right firms, generating and advancing pipeline across the portfolio, and closing distribution with little hand-holding, accountable for the number.
• You influence at the executive level , synthesizing a market point of view and securing buy-in from senior external and internal leaders for cross-functional bets.
• You bring hunger and a roll-up-your-sleeves bias at scale in a fast-moving environment , operating with accountability and authentic feedback.
• A desire to do work that matters: and to be held to a high standard while doing it. You're energized by a mission with measurable outcomes , not just good intentions. You engage with AI tools as part of how you do your best work, and hold yourself accountable to outcomes that matter beyond your team’s metrics.

What you’ll get here

You’ll work on problems that matter, at a company working to change healthcare at scale. You’ll work at the intersection of AI and systemic healthcare reform , where the problems we solve are as interesting and compelling as the mission.

At Garner, you’ll take on real, ambitious problems with real ownership and autonomy, alongside exceptional, principles-based people who genuinely want you to win. It’s demanding by design. You’ll be challenged to stretch beyond what you thought possible and receive consistent coaching to help you grow and do the best work of your career. This isn't the right fit for everyone, and that's intentional. The people here are driven by what's at stake for real people, and that's what gives our intensity its purpose.