Are you an experienced healthcare operational leader with a background in pathology management and a passion for leading large-scale healthcare services?
This is a rare opportunity to join one of New Zealand’s most significant healthcare service providers in a senior leadership role overseeing a major regional operation across the Northern region.
RWR Health is proud to be partnering exclusively on this appointment.
Our client is seeking a commercially astute and people-focused Regional General Manager to lead a complex, high-performing pathology services operation. This role sits at senior leadership level and will play a critical part in operational performance, strategic growth, stakeholder engagement, workforce leadership, and service excellence across the region.
This is far more than a traditional operations role. You will be responsible for leading multidisciplinary healthcare teams, driving regional strategy, strengthening key health sector relationships, and ensuring services remain clinically safe, financially sustainable, and operationally exceptional.
What you will be responsible for:
- Leading regional pathology operations across a large and complex healthcare network
- Driving operational performance, service delivery, and continuous improvement
- Full regional P&L accountability and financial oversight
- Building strong relationships with Health NZ, hospitals, clinicians, and key healthcare stakeholders
- Leading and developing senior operational leaders and multidisciplinary teams
- Supporting strategic growth opportunities across both public and private healthcare sectors
- Championing quality, safety, innovation, and organisational culture
- Senior healthcare leadership experience with proven GM-level capability
- Minimum 10 years’ general management experience
- Strong background in pathology management specifically
- Deep understanding of the community pathology sector
- Exceptional stakeholder engagement and people leadership skills
- Commercially minded with strong operational and financial capability
- Relevant health-related and/or business qualifications highly regarded
- Executive-level healthcare leadership role
- Excellent salary package on offer
- Highly visible and influential position within a major healthcare organisation
- Ability to shape regional healthcare service delivery
- Opportunity to work alongside highly respected healthcare leaders nationally
- Long-term career growth and strategic influence
For a confidential discussion and to learn more about the organisation, salary package, and strategic direction of the role, please contact Robbie McKenzie directly:
027 519 4993
robbiem@rwrhealth.co.nz.
www.rwrhealth.com