Healthcare Consulting Manager - Workforce

Huron • Chicago, IL

1d • $145,000 - $185,000 • 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 Managers are pivotal in driving success by leading complex, multi-workstream projects that improve care delivery and optimize workforce performance. They leverage their expertise in staffing model redesign, labor cost management, and talent strategy to help clients align their workforce with patient demand and strategic goals. Managers forge lasting client partnerships, collaborating to solve operational and financial challenges while fostering innovative approaches to care team design. They also mentor junior staff, building skills in data-driven analysis, performance improvement, and change management—creating a culture of respect, unity, and personal achievement.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree required
• 6 + years project leadership and workplan management experience with a focus on workforce, labor productivity and benchmarking
• Relevant hospital operations experience managing department and/or team-based projects with a focus on process re-engineering/performance improvement initiatives and change management within workforce, AND/OR Project leadership and project-plan management experience within a consulting firm setting with a focus on workforce management
• The ability to travel based on client, enterprise, or project needs is an essential function of this role. While travel requirements may vary based on business need, the current average travel in the Healthcare practice is less than 50%, annually.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office (Word, PowerPoint, Excel)
• US Work Authorization required

Nice To Haves

• Experience in a matrixed organization or cross-functional team environment

Responsibilities

• Lead multi-workstream healthcare workforce engagements from strategy through implementation, ensuring solutions align with client business objectives and patient care priorities.
• Analyze and interpret complex labor, productivity, and staffing data to identify opportunities for performance improvement, cost management, and operational efficiency.
• Partner with client leaders and project teams to optimize staffing models, improve skill mix, and enable clinicians to practice at the top of license.
• Design and implement workforce strategies to reduce premium labor and agency dependency, while aligning flexible staffing models to fluctuating demand.
• Communicate insights, recommendations, and progress updates clearly to stakeholders at all levels, fostering alignment and driving sustainable change.
• Develop and mentor team members, providing coaching, feedback, and training to strengthen consulting capabilities and workforce transformation expertise.

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: Manager