Manager / Senior Manager, Healthcare Providers, Healthcare & Life Sciences

About the Role

Join Simon-Kucher as a Manager or Senior Manager within our Healthcare & Life Sciences division based in Dubai. Our firm is a global consultancy with over 2,000 employees across 30-plus countries, specializing exclusively in driving measurable growth and profit through optimizing commercial strategies such as product, pricing, innovation, marketing, and sales. The Healthcare & Life Sciences team focuses on guiding leading organizations across the Middle East through growth, transformation, and complex market dynamics, with a strong emphasis on healthcare providers including hospital groups, health systems, clinics, diagnostic networks, and healthcare investors. We also engage across MedTech, Diagnostics, Digital Health, Healthcare Services, and broader healthcare ecosystems in close collaboration with global colleagues.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead or co-lead high-impact strategy and commercial excellence projects for healthcare providers in the Middle East, covering areas like growth strategy, service line planning, pricing and revenue management, network expansion, patient experience, go-to-market strategies, and sales enhancement.
• Advise C-suite executives, clinical leaders, and business managers on portfolio strategy, market entry, commercial operating models, and front-office transformation encompassing sales, service, and marketing functions.
• Drive patient- and customer-focused transformation initiatives, aligning strategies, pricing models, and go-to-market approaches with evolving expectations of patients, payers, and governmental bodies.
• Simplify complex data and analysis into clear, actionable insights aimed at senior stakeholders with varying technical backgrounds.
• Organize executive workshops and structured sessions to facilitate decision-making processes.
• Develop and nurture senior-level relationships with hospital groups, health systems, clinics, diagnostic networks, healthcare investors, and relevant public sector stakeholders.
• Identify, originate, and support conversion of new business opportunities primarily targeted at healthcare providers and related healthcare services.
• Lead or contribute significantly to client proposals, pitches, and account expansion efforts by leveraging data-driven insights to strengthen business recommendations.
• Develop new consulting services and intellectual property pertinent to healthcare providers’ growth and transformation in the Middle East.
• Oversee multiple projects end-to-end, managing everything from problem definition through data gathering, analysis, recommendation formulation, and securing alignment from senior stakeholders.
• Ensure outstanding project delivery through rigorous problem-solving, financial and commercial analytics, and strategic clarity.
• Utilize data, digital technologies, and AI tools to discover growth opportunities, enhance patient and customer offerings, and optimize pricing and revenue strategies.
• Lead teams through complex challenges related to growth, commercial strategies, and transformation while maintaining high quality standards and efficiency.
• Mentor, coach, and develop consultants and project team members to foster a collaborative and high-performance work environment.
• Contribute to recruiting, onboarding, and talent nurturing efforts in the Dubai office and the regional Healthcare & Life Sciences practice.
• Drive thought leadership by producing insights on provider growth, service-line development, pricing, revenue optimization, patient experience, digital transformation, and market trends in the Middle East.
• Represent Simon-Kucher at industry events, client engagements, and executive forums while tracking healthcare trends, regulations, competitive dynamics, technology, and investments throughout the region.

Candidate Profile

• 6 to 8 years of pertinent professional experience, ideally with significant tenure at a leading strategy or management consulting firm.
• Solid background working with healthcare providers and hospital systems, including entities like hospital groups, clinics, diagnostic networks, or related healthcare services. Knowledge of Gulf and Middle East healthcare markets is highly preferred.
• Proven experience managing complex strategy, growth, commercial excellence, or transformation engagements from start to finish.
• Established credibility with senior level executives and demonstrated experience managing relationships with C-suite, clinical, and business stakeholders.
• Recognized for business development skills and strong commercial insight.
• Excellent analytical thinking, problem-solving abilities, and capacity to communicate top-down insights clearly with executive-level presentation skills.
• Experience in leading and growing high-performing consulting teams.
• Undergraduate degree mandatory; advanced degrees such as MBA, Master's, PhD, MD, or MPH are advantageous.
• Fluent professional proficiency in both Arabic and English—speaking and writing—is required.
• Customer-centric mindset, passion for collaborative teamwork, and entrepreneurial attitude.
• Willingness and flexibility to travel domestically within the Middle East and internationally as necessary.

What We Offer

• Opportunity to join a dynamic entrepreneurial team with independence and initiative to shape client success, company growth, and personal career development.
• Significant investment in professional growth with early responsibility assignment.
• Flexible work arrangements balancing remote and office presence according to project needs.
• Health and well-being benefits designed to support employees and their families.
• An inclusive, values-based culture encouraging full participation and rapid professional development.

About Simon-Kucher

Simon-Kucher is a worldwide consultancy dedicated solely to facilitating superior growth that enhances revenue and profitability through expert optimization of product, pricing, innovation, marketing, and sales strategies, rooted in a deep understanding of customer value and preferences. We deeply embrace diversity, equity, and inclusion, fostering an environment where employees feel valued, authentic, and empowered.