Senior Medical Planner

Role overview

Key responsibilities

• Lead planning for hospitals, clinics, medical centers, specialty facilities, and complex healthcare environments.
• Consult clinicians, clients, and stakeholders; lead user-group meetings and clinical workshops.
• Develop clinical programs, departmental layouts, space strategies, and planning documentation.
• Analyze patient, staff, visitor, material, and service flows.
• Coordinate medical planning with architecture, engineering, medical equipment, interiors, ICT, ELV, and specialist disciplines.
• Review drawings, design options, and deliverables for functionality, coordination, and compliance.
• Advise on emergency, inpatient, outpatient, operating theatre, ICU, imaging, laboratory, pharmacy, CSSD, and other clinical areas.
• Support construction and implementation, maintain planning standards, and mentor junior medical planners.

Qualifications and experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Architecture, Healthcare Planning, Medical Planning, Biomedical Engineering, or a related discipline.
• At least 10 years of relevant healthcare planning experience, including complex facilities.
• Portfolio showing medical planning, healthcare programming, clinical planning, departmental planning, and facility design.
• Knowledge of clinical workflows, department organization, patient and staff flows, healthcare regulations, codes, and accreditation requirements.
• Proficiency in AutoCAD and Revit; understanding of BIM and multidisciplinary coordination.
• Experience leading user-group meetings and producing planning documentation such as room data sheets and space schedules.
• A master’s degree in a related healthcare planning or architecture field is preferred.
• UAE healthcare regulation knowledge is highly desirable; UAE or GCC project experience is preferred.

Professional capabilities

• Strong analytical, organizational, presentation, communication, and problem-solving skills.
• Leadership and mentoring ability, with the capacity to guide junior staff.
• Ability to manage multiple projects, deadlines, and multidisciplinary collaboration.