Healthcare Consulting Director - Workforce

Huron • Chicago, IL

1d • $185,000 - $225,000 • Hybrid

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, Healthcare Workforce Directors represent the pinnacle of professionalism and expertise. They collaborate with Huron and client senior leaders to design and implement complex workforce optimization strategies, transforming care delivery models, improving staffing efficiency, and aligning labor resources with patient demand. Directors bring deep expertise in care team redesign, talent strategy, and labor cost management, delivering sustainable solutions that improve operational performance while enabling exceptional patient outcomes. Throughout their engagements, they develop enduring client relationships that open doors to ongoing collaboration, business development, and new opportunities for the firm. Their leadership inspires trust and commitment—whether guiding clients through high-stakes workforce transformation, coaching senior leaders, or mentoring project teams. If you can lead with vision, create customized workforce solutions, and communicate with influence at every level… if you’re a champion of integrity, innovation, and results… then you will leave your mark on the future of healthcare consulting. Create your future at Huron.

Requirements

• Specific clinical leadership experience in multiple and varied care settings with a focus on care delivery optimization and redesign, talent strategy to include workforce planning, and promoting innovative digital strategies to improve care.
• Ability to independently lead and direct teams in the delivery of complex performance improvement engagements by creating collaborative, high performing work environments while continually addressing issues, removing barriers, and ensuring successful client outcomes.
• Experience successfully managing engagement-wide economics, such as budgets, invoicing, and billing.
• Proven analytical and critical thinking skills required to effectively quantify financial and operational benefits for performance improvement initiatives, identify risks to achieving projected outcomes, and develop solutions to address data gaps or risks.
• Exceptional verbal communication and listening skills to understand client challenges, create customized solutions to achieve their business objectives, and manage client expectations around benefits and deliverables.
• Proven ability to create presentations and proposals and deliver those with impact to key client stakeholders.
• Proven success in building strong relationships while leading a multi-faceted change process.
• Demonstrated change management expertise and experience positively influencing change in a variety of complex environments.
• Team leadership experience including role definition and development, team building, coaching/mentoring, and performance management.
• Demonstrated ability to build and maintain a professional network, recognize opportunities to enhance and expand relationships, and identify business development opportunities that align with Huron’s broad set of capabilities.
• Project leadership and workplan management experience within a consulting firm setting with a focus on workforce management.
• Bachelor's degree required.
• US Work Authorization required.
• The ability to travel based on client, enterprise, or project needs is an essential function of this role.
• Proficient in Microsoft office (Word, PowerPoint, Excel).
• Direct Supervisory experiences of both individuals and teams.
• 8-10 years of consulting and/or healthcare operations experience.

Nice To Haves

• Specific experience in cost and expense management within administrative and corporate functions.
• Expertise managing cost structures and improving operational workflows within post-acute settings (e.g., SNF, long-term care, home health, rehab).

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with Huron and client senior leaders to design and implement complex workforce optimization strategies.
• Transform care delivery models, improve staffing efficiency, and align labor resources with patient demand.
• Deliver sustainable solutions that improve operational performance while enabling exceptional patient outcomes.
• Develop enduring client relationships that open doors to ongoing collaboration, business development, and new opportunities for the firm.
• Guide clients through high-stakes workforce transformation.
• Coach senior leaders.
• Mentor project teams.
• Lead and direct teams in the delivery of complex performance improvement engagements by creating collaborative, high performing work environments while continually addressing issues, removing barriers, and ensuring successful client outcomes.
• Manage engagement-wide economics, such as budgets, invoicing, and billing.
• Quantify financial and operational benefits for performance improvement initiatives.
• Identify risks to achieving projected outcomes and develop solutions to address data gaps or risks.
• Create customized solutions to achieve client business objectives.
• Manage client expectations around benefits and deliverables.
• Create presentations and proposals and deliver those with impact to key client stakeholders.
• Lead a multi-faceted change process.
• Positively influence change in a variety of complex environments.
• Lead teams including role definition and development, team building, coaching/mentoring, and performance management.
• Build and maintain a professional network.
• Recognize opportunities to enhance and expand relationships.
• Identify business development opportunities that align with Huron’s broad set of capabilities.
• Manage projects and workplans within a consulting firm setting with a focus on workforce management.

Benefits

• medical, dental and vision coverage
• 401(k) plan with a generous employer match
• employee stock purchase plan
• generous Paid Time Off policy
• paid parental leave
• adoption assistance
• Wellness Program supports employee total well-being by providing free annual health screenings and coaching, bank at work, and on-site workshops, as well as ongoing programs recognizing major events in the lives of our employees throughout the year.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director