Associate Director – Integrated Healthcare Solutions, Managed Care

Role Overview

• Lead day-to-day engagement delivery on projects of any size, including planning, budgeting, executing, and delivering; often serve as a key client contact.
• Manage multiple workstreams and stakeholders concurrently; set expectations, track dependencies, and drive closure on decisions and action items.
• Own project economics for assigned engagements and workstreams (budgeting, burn management, forecasting) and proactively identify and escalate delivery risks.
• Coordinate and actively participate in developing both standardized and custom solutions and client deliverables, including drafting complex sections and integrating analysis into an executive-ready storyline.
• Ensure rigorous quality control across models, exhibits, and written deliverables through structured review, documentation standards, and reasonableness checks.
• Actively manage staff and demonstrate consistent, balanced delegation, supervision, and leadership across all areas of an engagement; review work product and coach for improvement.
• Lead career development efforts for team members through ongoing feedback, performance input, and mentoring, including supporting readiness for promotion.
• Support business development by identifying follow-on opportunities, contributing to proposals and scopes, and developing client-ready content and methodologies.
• Contribute to thought leadership and capability development by creating reusable tools, templates, and training materials that improve delivery speed and consistency.
• Collaborate with business and technology stakeholders to translate Managed Care needs into scalable solutions and roadmaps; coordinate with related IHS service lines as appropriate.
• Assume managerial roles in office or practice functions such as recruiting, training, and staff coordination.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree (e.g., BS, BBA, MBA, MHA, M.A., M.S., etc.) with a preferred focus in management, accounting, finance, healthcare administration, business administration, health information management, or a related discipline.
• 10+ years of consulting and/or industry experience in managed care, contracting, reimbursement, strategic pricing, revenue strategy, and/or related disciplines; direct or supporting negotiation experience preferred.
• Operational expertise with a primary focus on contracting, strategic pricing, market positioning, contractual language review, and/or revenue cycle.
• Strong understanding of commercial and government payment methodologies (e.g., MS-DRGs, APR-DRGs, APCs, EAPGs) and the claim adjudication process between payers and providers.
• Familiarity with regulatory changes that impact Managed Care.
• Demonstrated experience estimating project budgets and timelines, developing project approaches, and monitoring project economics.
• Demonstrated ability to develop and maintain collaborative, value-added relationships with client executives; strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to manage multiple engagements at a time and lead teams through ambiguity with disciplined execution.
• Ability to train and participate in the professional development of BRG staff in both project-management and technical dimensions.
• Strong proficiency in MS Office applications, including Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Access, and Outlook.
• Candidate must be able to submit verification of legal right to work in the U.S., without company sponsorship.

Benefits

• Health insurance
• 401(k) matching
• Flexible work hours
• Paid time off
• Professional development opportunities