Operating Partner, Healthcare, Global asset manager, Dubai

Responsibilities

• Lead operational due diligence on hospitals and healthcare services targets, evaluating management calibre, clinical standards, revenue cycle maturity, and cost base.
• Shape operational investment theses with deal teams, identifying value creation levers and risks.
• Deliver pre-close benchmarks and 100-day operational plans for target assets.
• Advise on management assessment and post-close organisational design.
• Direct portfolio-wide operational transformation: hospital efficiency, capacity utilisation, procurement, workforce productivity, and revenue cycle improvement.
• Implement performance management frameworks across varied regulatory environments and geographies.
• Build and mentor local operating teams to embed sustainable capability.
• Track and report operational KPIs to investment leadership, coordinating remediation where needed.
• Manage relationships with clinical and non-clinical leadership at portfolio companies.
• Contribute to healthcare strategy, market prioritisation, partnerships, and co-investor engagement.
• Support exit readiness, including operating data rooms and buyer Q&A.

Requirements

• 10–15 years’ experience blending top-tier strategy/operations consulting with in-house private hospital operations.
• Early grounding at a tier-one consultancy with clear healthcare services focus.
• Direct accountability for performance improvement within a major private hospital group or integrated operator (US or Europe).
• Exposure to pre-acquisition diligence or deal-side operational advisory advantageous.
• International experience; emerging/developing markets strongly preferred.
• Deep fluency in hospital operations: clinical workflow, capacity management, revenue cycle, procurement, staffing models, regulatory compliance.
• Proven programme management across multi-workstream transformations in complex institutions.
• Commercial acumen, including financial modelling, EBITDA improvement planning, and board-level reporting.
• Credible with senior clinical, operational and investor stakeholders; able to operate across cultures.