Partner - Global Health

About Palladium:

Palladium is a global company working to design, develop and deliver positive impact on the lives and livelihoods of people around the globe; broaden access to health, water, power, and infrastructure; build enduring, sustainable, and transformative institutions and market systems to address global challenges; and conserve the natural world. We operate in over 90 countries and have a workforce of 4,000 talented, motivated, and diverse staff of all religions, races, languages, and gender identities.

This Opportunity:

Palladium is a global business that works collaboratively across the globe with governments, businesses, and investors to solve the world’s most pressing challenges. It is managed from three primary regions: Asia Pacific (APAC), Europe, Middle East & Africa (EMEA) and the Americas.

The purpose of this role is to develop and execute the growth strategy for the Global Health related business for the Americas Regional Business Partnership (ARBP). The primary scope of responsibility will be in following core areas: Global Health Security, Health Systems Strengthening and HIV/AIDS and Malaria.

Reporting directly to the Senior Managing Partner in the Americas, this role will be responsible for driving the business development outcomes, improving the win/loss ratio of the strategic pursuits to attain targeted outcomes, grow our business in key markets and successfully deliver the portfolio of projects. This will be accomplished through effective leadership, collaboration, leveraging of external relationships and the application of strong market knowledge.

Location:

The position is based in Palladium’s Washington D.C. office.

You and Your Career:

We are a learning organization and provide growth opportunities from the start. We pride ourselves on giving you the freedom, resources, and guidance to chart a fulfilling career!

Reporting and Supervision:

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  The Partner, Global Health will report to the Senior Managing Partner
  
• This is a regional leadership position and has a high degree of autonomy with appropriate consultation where applicable
  
• The Partner, Global Health is a leadership position within the Americas Regional Business Partnership. The position is required to work most closely with the other ARBP Partners
  
• The role is also required to work with stakeholders across the organization including but not limited to the Chief Diversity Officer (CDO), MD – Strategy and Corporate Development, MD – Palladium Global Growth Platforms and other Partners from EMEA and APAC

Primary Duties and Responsibilities:

In collaboration with your fellow partners, the primary responsibilities of this position will include:

• Oversight of multiple Portfolio Leads to drive the internal and external processes that drive the profitable financial performance and effective delivery of our programs
  
• Driving a performance-based but collaborative culture in the partnership which aligns with Palladium’s guiding principles, fostering cross-regional co-operation at all levels with EMEA and APAC to ensure that we are consistently leveraging our global knowledge and expertise
  
• Developing and executing a cohesive growth strategy for the Americas, ensuring alignment with Palladium’s overarching strategy and vision
  
• Strategically managing the Americas Health related business pipeline business, fostering a proactive and innovative approach to the diversification of our client base. In addition, through the use of your strong market knowledge and relationships develop innovative products/approaches to pursue new client and grow business opportunities
  
• Ensuring exceptional quality of implementation in all Americas Health related projects, fostering a proactive and innovative approach to the client across both the technical and project management aspects of the engagement
  
• Achieving your business strategy by developing and using collaborative relationships and developing and valuing our people
  
• Driving the performance and ensuring strategic management of the portfolios financial position on an ongoing basis, providing regular updates to the ARBP on the forecasted financial performance
  
• Collaborating closely with the Global Palladium team to proactively examine new opportunities for revenue growth and efficiency improvement
  
• Working with the HR team and Senior Managing Partner to ensure that the portfolio workforce plans are well developed and aligned with their strategic needs and global human capital strategy

Key Competencies Required:

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  Significant prior experience leading multi-disciplinary teams within a commercial organization, ideally involved in the provision of services to both public and private sector clients globally
  
• Proven track record in driving strategic growth via a combination of new client business development, leveraging existing resources/mechanisms and strong client relationship management to maximize profitability of the portfolio
  
• In depth knowledge of the economic, social, and political context with a strong network of contacts across public sector agencies and private enterprises (Global Fund, State Department Office of HIV/AIDS etc). A pre-existing network of contacts within USAID, State Department, Global Fund and other strategic clients is preferred, with the ability to quickly create strong relationships essential
  
• Given the rapidly changing landscape of our industry and organization, the ability to pursue, adapt and lead change. In particular you need to demonstrate flexibility in response to the changing business environment that drives a dynamic, growing and high performing organization
  
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills with the ability to influence a wide variety of stakeholders with differing levels of commercial acumen
  
• Demonstrated ability to drive a high performing culture, while simultaneously creating an inclusive and enabling work environment with a strong focus on diversity and inclusion
  
• The ability to see the bigger picture and affect business drivers through decisions and actions that increases your own ability to contribute to the long-term profitability and growth of the company
  
• The ability to see how your accountabilities fit into Palladium group, the impact of your individual actions on the bottom line and how the effective management of resources will drive high performance and efficiency
  
• Strong levels of resilience accompanied by the capability to resolve conflict and achieve consensus amongst a wide variety of competing views

Equity, Diversity & Inclusion - Palladium is committed to embedding equity, diversity, and inclusion into everything we do. We welcome applications from all sections of society and actively encourage diversity to drive innovation, creativity, success and good practice. We positively welcome and seek to ensure we achieve diversity in our workforce; and that all job applicants and employees receive equal and fair treatment regardless of their background or personal characteristics. These include: (but are not limited to) socio-economic background, age, race, gender identity and expression, religion, ethnicity, sexual orientation, disability, nationality, veteran, marital or Indigenous status.

Should you require any adjustments or accommodations to be made due to a disability or you are a neurodivergent individual or for any other circumstance, please email our team at accessibility@thepalladiumgroup.com and we will be in touch to discuss.

Safeguarding - We define Safeguarding as “the preventative action taken by Palladium to protect our people, clients and the communities we work with from harm”. We are committed to ensuring that all children and adults who come into contact with Palladium are treated with respect and are free from abuse. All successful candidates will be subject to an enhanced selection process including safeguarding-focused interviews and a rigorous due diligence process.