Healthcare Managed Care & Financial Strategy, Senior Consultant

Guidehouse•Chicago, IL

7d•$89,000 - $148,000

About The Position

Senior Consultants have responsibility for client management, solution implementation and generation of project results. You will own project workstreams and interact with the client daily to ensure engagement success. This includes supporting day-to-day operational meetings with client sponsors and consulting leaders. 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. We encourage career development and hiring for the long term. As a Senior Consultant, you will follow a clearly defined career path and continue to deepen your specialized industry knowledge and consulting skills. As you hone your project management skills, leadership abilities and the aptitude for managing multiple workstreams, you will have the opportunity to progress to the Managing Consultant level. Specific Responsibilities for this role include: • Use your healthcare industry experience and your prowess to identify, sell and successfully deliver innovative solutions from design, through development and implementation for revenue challenged managed care health systems, hospitals, AMCs, IDNs to prioritize investments and refine contracts to strategy and growth imperatives. • Design and contribute to a portfolio of critical consulting engagements during this heavy reform time for managed care provider and provider sponsored plan organizations across the country • Bridge payer and clinical expertise to deliver synergy and more robust solutions to our clients targeting value and outcomes. • Contribute to nationwide business development and relationship management activities for Guidehouse Healthcare clients requiring the need for alternative value based models • Play a key role in helping guide the firm’s continued development of leading-edge consulting, in the value transformation service line

Requirements

Bachelors Degree
3+ years strategy and operations lead experience in commercial managed care market with demonstrated financial and analytical skills to realign health entities investment portfolio
3+ years experience strategically working with managed care contracts on the payer/provider side to align with strategy and deliver expected revenue
3+ years delivering corporate financial plans for healthcare payer/provider that includes longitudinal analysis and delivers validated forward planning to the institution
3+ years studying industry trends, risks, and client's financial and market portfolio and advising health system CFO, CSO, CEO on managed care contract details and benefits design that maximizes revenue
2+ years of pricing or health economics experience
1+ years of executive consulting experience influencing C-Suite healthcare client on strategic decisions inclusive of selling, designing and implementing programs that deliver results
The ability to travel up to 75%

Nice To Haves

Master's Degree
Superior written and verbal communication skills
Excellent quantitative analysis skills
Demonstrated excellence in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, as well as the ability to conduct research
Track record of efficiency, flexibility, creative problem-solving, self-motivated, analytical and highly-organized
Proven ability to work independently, as well as collaboratively within team structures
Entrepreneurial spirit and excitement toward promoting Guidehouse’s growing healthcare practice

Responsibilities

Use your healthcare industry experience and your prowess to identify, sell and successfully deliver innovative solutions from design, through development and implementation for revenue challenged managed care health systems, hospitals, AMCs, IDNs to prioritize investments and refine contracts to strategy and growth imperatives.
Design and contribute to a portfolio of critical consulting engagements during this heavy reform time for managed care provider and provider sponsored plan organizations across the country
Bridge payer and clinical expertise to deliver synergy and more robust solutions to our clients targeting value and outcomes.
Contribute to nationwide business development and relationship management activities for Guidehouse Healthcare clients requiring the need for alternative value based models
Play a key role in helping guide the firm’s continued development of leading-edge consulting, in the value transformation service line

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