Senior Consultant – Healthcare Strategy & Transformation

Role Overview

• Senior Consultants help our healthcare clients transform their business processes, improve efficiency and operations, increase transparency and performance management, and comply with Federal laws and regulations.
• You will have responsibility for client management, solution implementation, and delivery of project results.
• You will own project workstreams and interact with healthcare clients and Guidehouse leaders regularly to ensure engagement success.
• Your role includes supporting day-to-day operational tasks for clients and consulting leaders including analysis, research, and project management tasks.
• Senior Consultants are expected to prepare and communicate well-organized, effective reports and presentations to client and internal executives.
• You will lead, coach, and mentor Consultants and ensure quality deliverables.
• Proactively assist in delivery and management of engagement activities led by Guidehouse Engagement Leadership.
• Work independently, with minimal supervision, and partner with others to develop relationships across the engagement team.
• Lead one or more tasks or work streams within a client engagement, overseeing your individual contributions as well as the work of additional engagement staff.
• Support activities that lead to engaging interactions with clients such as creating agendas, meeting materials, risk logs, action tracking, and other adjacent activities.
• Support overall contract activities that provide clients with insights into our accomplishments in various formats at regular intervals.
• Guide client and internal subject matter expert conversations towards effective outcomes.
• Identify and mitigate projects risks around scope, schedule, and quality and effectively escalating risks to engagement leadership.
• Develop strategies to solve complex clinical, technical, and operational challenges for our healthcare clients.
• Actively support business development activities to help identify, research, and pursue opportunities for new / existing clients.
• Contribute to development of the team’s industry acumen and capabilities through contribution to internal firm initiatives.
• Perform technical and process analyses; data collection; spreadsheet creation and management.
• Provide detailed research and analysis to identify and recommend enhancements to continuously improve client operations.
• Assess health industry trends to inform internal colleagues and external clients on leading practices and drive continued transformation efforts.
• Communicate solutions and new strategies to clients through reports and presentations.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in healthcare administration, business administration, public health, public policy, or related field
• 3+ years of management consulting or planning experience in the healthcare industry
• A thorough understanding of the healthcare industry with a passion for improving it
• Organizational and project management skills, with the ability to work as part of a team and prioritize resources and time effectively
• Experience maintaining project timelines and contributing to project reporting
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including experience writing reports and client/public-facing documents and communicating complex concepts effectively
• Comfort with analysis in Microsoft Excel and ability to translate analysis findings
• Ability to adapt quickly to changing priorities and develop successful professional relationships with key internal and external stakeholders
• Ability to create clear and compelling presentations for clients on complex topics
• Ability to Obtain Public Trust (U.S. Citizenship Required)

Benefits

• Medical, Rx, Dental & Vision Insurance
• Personal and Family Sick Time & Company Paid Holidays
• Position may be eligible for a discretionary variable incentive bonus
• Parental Leave and Adoption Assistance
• 401(k) Retirement Plan
• Basic Life & Supplemental Life
• Health Savings Account, Dental/Vision & Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts
• Short-Term & Long-Term Disability
• Student Loan PayDown
• Tuition Reimbursement, Personal Development & Learning Opportunities
• Skills Development & Certifications
• Employee Referral Program
• Corporate Sponsored Events & Community Outreach
• Emergency Back-Up Childcare Program
• Mobility Stipend