About the Role
Ziegler is seeking a well-established Managing Director/Director with relevant relationships with for-profit senior housing (IL/AL/MC) and skilled nursing owner/operators to join the SHCFP team. The ideal candidate will have significant experience with senior housing M&A and financing transactions, and strong relationships with large and middle-market senior housing and care providers.
Responsibilities
- Drive new client business development within areas of expertise and geographic regions, and provide leverage for other team members.
- Manage resources efficiently and effectively to adapt to marketplace changes.
- Act as the business advocate for both clients and the Ziegler SHCFP Team.
- Build bridges with other Ziegler businesses to enhance scale and improve bottom-line margins.
- Enhance a strong, positive image and reputation, upholding honesty, integrity, and credibility.
- Determine appropriate fee arrangements.
- Establish clear definitions of target clients.
- Establish meaningful, measurable goals and milestones for sector coverage to ensure organizational objectives are met.
- Understand the firm's competition and communicate the Ziegler Value Proposition to clients.
- Maintain an outstanding personal brand in senior housing and care, providing exceptional client service and creative financing solutions.
Requirements
- Minimum of 8-10 years of relevant experience in investment banking or similar corporate roles.
- Proven leadership skills with high standards of character and integrity.
- Demonstrated access to clients and leaders in the healthcare sector.
- Ability to communicate vision and direction confidently in written and oral presentations.
- Series 79, and/or 24 designations are desirable.
- Results-oriented, pragmatic, hands-on style with a bias toward action.
- Ability to execute aggressively against strategy and focus on delivery of business and performance objectives.
- Focus on processes, customer, and people management to drive efficiency and effectiveness.
- Excellent consultative, collaborative, and influencing communication skills.
- Ability to set clear and deliverable goals.
- Demonstrates resilience, passion, and commitment to deliver and be accountable for results.
- Thorough yet concise communicator of revenue goals and budgets.
- Solid analytical skills with a disciplined and knowledge-based approach to decision making.
- Adaptive and flexible, capable of moving in various directions while focused on achieving results.
- Ability to gain respect quickly and work well within the Ziegler culture.
- Possess the fortitude and stamina necessary to lead an organization through substantive growth.
- High personal standards of ethics and integrity.
- Personal attributes of collaboration, openness, creativity, humility, scrappiness, responsibility, empathy, and a sense of humor.
- Ability to quickly win the respect of others through sound knowledge, good judgment, and an admirable personal style.
- Recognize that a reputation for honest and fair dealing is a critical asset.
Skills
- Investment banking
- Capital markets
- Proprietary investments
- M&A advisory
- Financing solutions
- Client development
- Relationship management
- Financial analysis
- Strategic planning
- Communication
- Leadership
- Negotiation
Location
- Chicago
- Remote
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Managing Director
- Director
- Senior
Education Level
- Undergraduate degree from a well-regarded institution
- MBA degree or CPA designation is highly desirable
Salary/Compensations
- $2-4+ million in annual revenues
About the Company
- Ziegler is a privately held investment bank, capital markets and proprietary investments firm specializing in the senior living, healthcare, and education sectors.
- Headquartered in Chicago with regional and branch offices throughout the U.S., Ziegler provides clients with advisory and capital solutions to achieve strategic objectives, propel organizational growth, and maximize value.
- The Ziegler Senior Housing and Care Finance Practice (SHCFP) focuses on delivering sell-side M&A solutions and a full range of capital financing options to senior housing and care organizations nationwide.
- Ziegler is one of the most active firms offering innovative sell-side, recapitalization/restructuring, and agency and debt placement products.
Equal Opportunity
- Ziegler is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace dedicated to pursuing and hiring a diverse workforce.
