Principal, Academic Executive Search

AMN Healthcare•Dallas, TX

3d•$112,000 - $140,000

About The Position

The Principal, Academic Executive Search is a senior search leader responsible for business development, individual sales targets, and complex executive search engagements within academic medical centers. The role manages multiple retained searches focused on Dean, Chair, Division Chief, Physician Executive, C-suite, Institute Director, Scientific Leadership, and other senior academic healthcare leadership positions. The Principal serves as a trusted advisor to clients, providing market intelligence, physician leadership insights, and recruitment strategy expertise throughout the search process. The role combines business development and search execution, applying academic medicine experience, industry knowledge, and executive search expertise to deliver client outcomes and generate new business opportunities. It also involves mentoring team members and sharing industry knowledge. Work is performed in an office or home-office environment. The role requires operating standard office equipment and keyboards and using technology, automation, and AI-enabled tools in accordance with company policies and responsible AI practices. In-person office attendance is expected at a frequency dependent on the work arrangement. AMN Healthcare provides reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities to enable performance of essential job functions.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree.
Proven executive search and business development expertise within academic medicine, physician leadership recruitment, healthcare, or professional services environments.
Strong consultative selling, relationship-building, and client management skills.
Ability to assess executive leadership competencies, physician leadership potential, organizational fit, and succession readiness.
Exceptional communication, presentation, and influencing skills with physician executives, department chairs, deans, and healthcare leadership audiences.
Strategic thinking, market-mapping, research, physician talent identification, and candidate assessment capabilities.
Strong organization, project management, and ability to manage multiple searches.
Results-oriented self-starter with business judgment, initiative, and accountability.
Ability to work collaboratively while independently driving outcomes.
Ability to operate standard office equipment and keyboards.
Ability to use technology, automation, and AI-enabled tools to improve productivity, support decision-making, and enhance business outcomes while adhering to company policies and responsible AI practices.

Nice To Haves

Executive search, physician recruitment, or leadership recruiting experience in academic medicine, healthcare, faculty practice plans, medical schools, or integrated health systems.
Demonstrated success leading retained executive search engagements and meeting sales and business development targets.
Experience recruiting senior physician leaders, department chairs, division chiefs, deans, chief medical officers, physician executives, scientific leaders, and/or C-suite healthcare leaders.
Strong understanding of academic health systems, faculty practice plans, physician leadership structures, graduate medical education, research enterprises, and healthcare organizational dynamics.
Established network within academic medicine, physician leadership, healthcare administration, or healthcare executive search.

Responsibilities

Identify, develop, and close retained executive search and leadership consulting engagements with new and existing academic healthcare clients.
Achieve and exceed individual sales, revenue, and business development goals through strategic prospecting and relationship management.
Lead full-cycle executive searches for senior academic and physician leadership positions, including Dean, Chair, Division Chief, Physician Executive, C-suite, and other roles.
Partner with clients to develop customized search strategies, target markets, competitor analyses, physician leadership maps, candidate profiles, and recruitment plans.
Conduct client intake meetings and gather organizational, cultural, clinical, research, and position-specific information.
Provide proactive communication and consultative guidance to clients throughout engagements.
Identify, attract, assess, and recruit academic physician leaders, executives, and healthcare professionals while delivering a strong candidate experience.
Conduct in-depth candidate evaluations, leadership assessments, and behavioral interviews to assess organizational fit, leadership capabilities, and potential for long-term success.
Develop and maintain client relationships that support repeat business, long-term partnerships, and additional search opportunities.
Provide clients and internal stakeholders with market intelligence, compensation insights, physician workforce trends, and competitive landscape analysis.
Collaborate with the Academic Executive Search Practice and Academic Sales Team on business development, proposals, and client presentations.
Serve as a subject matter expert in physician leadership recruitment, academic medicine, and executive search practices; mentor team members and share industry knowledge.