Partnerships Associate
MATTER
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Chicago • Illinois • 🇺🇸 United States
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About the role
- Support account managers in managing day-to-day activities across a subset of MATTER’s partners.
- Assist in maintaining strong, positive partner relationships by helping prepare materials, agendas, follow-ups and documentation.
- Coordinate partner-facing communication and ensure timely responses.
- Support planning and execution of innovation programs, including accelerators, challenges, workshops and startup sourcing efforts.
- Assist with scheduling, logistics, workflow coordination, meeting prep and project tracking.
- Help ensure timelines, deliverables and milestones are met and communicated clearly.
- Assist with outreach, screening and preparation of startups participating in MATTER programs.
- Coordinate with the Partnerships team to manage communications and materials for participating startups.
- Work cross-functionally with MATTER’s venture acceleration, marketing, events and operations teams to support program delivery and partner success.
- Help prepare presentations, update project documents and support storytelling materials for program activities.
- Maintain organized project files, trackers and documentation.
- Support data entry, CRM updates and internal reporting.
- Assist in general team coordination, task prioritization and operational workflows.
Requirements
- 1–3+ years of experience in healthcare, innovation, startups, consulting, program management or a related field.
- Strong interest in healthcare innovation and the commercialization journey of startups.
- Excellent organization, communication and task-management skills.
- Ability to work in a fast-paced, “scrappy,” collaborative environment.
- Comfortable handling multiple priorities and supporting several concurrent projects.
- Strong writing, slide-building and presentation support capabilities.
- Prior experience supporting programs, events, or innovation initiatives is a plus.
- Solid experience with CRM software (HubSpot preferred) and Microsoft Office, particularly PowerPoint and Excel.
- Applicants must live in the Chicago area.
Benefits
- Choice of numerous medical, dental and vision insurance plan options
- Opportunity to participate in a 403(b) retirement plan and contribute to FSA plans for tax-free support of medical, child care and transit expenses
- Monthly cell phone stipend that is not taxed
- Unlimited paid time off, because we believe that time devoted to yourself and those in your life is fundamental to good health
- Annual company-wide winter break between Christmas and New Year's
- Expanding your professional network across the healthcare and entrepreneurial ecosystems
- Engaging with some of the most innovative thinkers in healthcare
- Growing skills and knowledge with continuous learning, including dedicated company-wide time to learning each month and periodic workshops for our team
- Working with a diverse team that is passionate about our work and cares about one other
- Owning your work, with unbounded opportunities to stretch, learn and lead
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
program managementdata entrytask managementproject trackingpresentation supportslide building
Soft skills
organizationcommunicationcollaborationtask prioritizationability to handle multiple priorities