Assistant General Manager - Program Management - Healthcare

Job Description:

Greetings from SPARSH Hospital Bangalore!

About the Role:

The Founder is looking for a high-calibre medical doctor who can operate as a thinking partner at the intersection of affiliations, medical education, strategy, and organizational scale-up. You will work directly with the Founder on the initiatives that matter most - shaping how the organization thinks about its next phase of growth, engaging with regulators, academic/education bodies, and internal and external stakeholders, and translating ambiguous, high-stakes priorities into structured plans that get executed.

This role suits a self-starter who can hold a boardroom-level conversation in the morning, chase an execution detail with a cross-functional team in the afternoon, and bring internal and external stakeholders together on one platform to move decisions forward.

What You'll Do:

Strategic Thinking & Founder's Office:

- Act as a thinking partner to the Founder - structuring ambiguous problems, building frameworks, and driving decisions on strategic bets (new markets, service lines, partnerships).

- Prepare founder ready strategy notes, business cases, and scenario models.

- Track industry, competitor, and regulatory trends and translate them into actionable recommendations.

- Due diligence to financial and operational models - unit economics, market sizing, ROI analysis - to pressure-test strategic options before they reach the Founder.

- Run the Founder's key priorities as structured initiatives - from idea to decision to execution.

Government & Policy Engagement:

- Build and manage relationships with regulatory bodies, industry associations (CII, FICCI, NATHEALTH), and policy think tanks.

- Track healthcare policy developments (PMJAY, insurance regulation, clinical establishment acts, PLI schemes, state health missions) and assess implications for the business.

- Draft position papers, policy submissions, and briefing notes for government meetings.

- Identify and pursue opportunities for public-private partnerships, government empanelment, and scheme participation.

Organizational Growth:

- Drive execution of expansion initiatives - new geography, facilities/verticals, partnership rollouts.

- Build the business cases and operating models for new initiatives, working closely with finance, operations, and clinical leadership.

- Set up governance rhythms (reviews, dashboards, milestone tracking) so growth initiatives don't stall between strategy and execution.

- Work cross-functionally with clinical, operations, finance, HR, and marketing to unblock execution.

What We're Looking For:

- MBBS/MBA/MHA with 5+ years across hospital affiliations, medical education, or healthcare strategy.

- Demonstrated exposure to hospital affiliations, medical education, and strategy in a healthcare, consulting, or high-growth startup environment.

- Prior exposure to affiliations, medical/health education, and strategy would be preferred.

- Demonstrated experience engaging with government stakeholders or regulatory bodies.

- Track record of working closely with both internal and external stakeholders - clinical, academic, regulatory, and business - to drive and deliver a range of projects.

- Self-starter with the ability to take ownership of ambiguous mandates and bring diverse stakeholders onto a single platform to drive alignment and decisions.

- Strong structured problem-solving - comfortable building frameworks, business cases.

- Sharp analytical thinking - comfortable working with data (financial models, operational metrics, healthcare/policy datasets) to stress-test assumptions, size opportunities, and back recommendations with evidence rather than intuition alone; proficiency in Excel/analytics tools expected, SQL or BI tool familiarity a plus.

- Executive presence - able to represent the Founder credibly in rooms with regulators, academic/education bodies, and senior leadership.

- Bias for execution - this role is judged on outcomes delivered, not decks produced.

- Excellent written communication - this person will often be the pen behind the Founder's strategic and policy communication.