Healthcare Consulting Director - Insights Services

About the position

Huron helps its clients drive growth, enhance performance and sustain leadership in the markets they serve. We help healthcare organizations build innovation capabilities and accelerate key growth initiatives, enabling organizations to own the future, instead of being disrupted by it. Together, we empower clients to create sustainable growth, optimize internal processes and deliver better consumer outcomes. Health systems, hospitals and medical clinics are under immense pressure to improve clinical outcomes and reduce the cost of providing patient care. Investing in new partnerships, clinical services and technology is not enough to create meaningful and substantive change. To succeed long-term, healthcare organizations must empower leaders, clinicians, employees, affiliates and communities to build cultures that foster innovation to achieve the best outcomes for patients. Joining the Huron team means you'll help our clients evolve and adapt to the rapidly changing healthcare environment and optimize existing business operations, improve clinical outcomes, create a more consumer-centric healthcare experience, and drive physician, patient and employee engagement across the enterprise. Join our team as the expert you are now and create your future. At Huron, Directors represent the pinnacle of professionalism and expertise. They effectively collaborate with Huron and client senior leaders to design and implement complex and sustainable solutions while delivering remarkable results for our clients that often exceed engagement objectives. Throughout their projects, they develop enduring client relationships that benefit the firm in profound ways including networking, ongoing business development, and sales opportunities. Their talents and leadership qualities instill passion and trust in clients, junior staff members, and Huron management. If you can lead teams, create customized solutions, and masterfully communicate on every level…If you're a consummate professional, a prospective champion of integrity and excellence, and an inspiration of confidence and trust… then you can and will-leave your mark on the future of consulting. Create your future at Huron. As the Healthcare Consulting Director - Insights Services you will play a critical role in connecting streamlining and optimizing data across the Insights Segment as you design and deploy new and scalable solutions built on proprietary Huron data sets and consulting capabilities. This role is ideal for a data-driven leader who thrives in a collaborative environment and is passionate about translating insights into action and bringing new capabilities to market.

Responsibilities

• Advance Predictive Analytics: Support the development of predictive modeling and trend analysis to better inform clinical, operational, and financial decision-making across health systems.
• Data Engineering Alignment: Partner with Global Products stakeholders to ensure backend data ingestion processes, infrastructure, and ongoing communication can support efficient delivery of Insights services and the development of new use cases.
• Collaborate Across Teams: Work closely with consulting, technology, and analytics teams to align data strategies with client needs and best practices.
• Artificial Intelligence: Evaluate and recommend AI and cloud-based technologies that enhance data orchestration, automate analytics workflows, and drive smarter, autonomous decision-making across internal processes and client delivery.
• Pilot Oversight: Lead pilot initiatives to assess ROI and operational impact of new tools, platforms, or data.
• Partner with Insights leadership, Huron sales teams, and Growth Enablement Team: Update go-to-market narrative, collateral, and contribute to client-facing proposals involving newly developed insights services.
• Contribute to Active Client Engagements: Provide subject matter expertise in growth strategy, digital enablement, and data modernization.
• Collaborate with Project Teams: Drive measurable outcomes and ensure client satisfaction with updated or newly developed data services.
• Identify and Evaluate New Market Verticals: Assess new market verticals and service offerings aligned with Huron's growth strategy.
• Collaborate with Business Development and Leadership Teams: Craft go-to-market strategies for new service lines.
• Develop Strategic Perspectives: Formulate investment theses for emerging trends in healthcare data, analytics, and digital transformation.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree required
• 8 + years of experience in healthcare analytics, consulting, data science, or related fields
• Skilled in transforming data and analytics into actionable insights for client success.
• Expertise in building and scaling healthcare measurement frameworks and composite metrics
• Ability to synthesize large, complex datasets into clear insights and recommendations that drive measurable benefits
• Strong collaboration and communication skills to engage with internal teams and healthcare executives
• Demonstrated experience with advanced data visualization tools (Tableau, PowerBI, or AWS QuickSight, etc.)
• Expertise in SQL skills and data lake querying along with experience across Python and R
• Experience in building data models, data pipelines, data validation/ quality checks and semantic layers within the healthcare domain
• Willingness to travel up to 80% (Monday-Thursday with occasional onsite Fridays)
• Direct Supervisory experiences of both individuals and teams
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office (Word, PowerPoint, Excel)
• US Work Authorization required

Benefits

• Medical coverage
• Dental coverage
• Vision coverage
• Wellness programs