Healthcare Workforce Advisory Senior Manager

Accenture•Kirkland, WA

6d•$112,900 - $338,300•Hybrid

About The Position

Accenture's Talent Reinvention Partner is seeking a Senior Manager to lead healthcare workforce advisory work across various transformation programs including rural health, Medicaid, public health, provider, and payer initiatives. This role focuses on helping clients understand workforce supply-demand gaps, evaluate labor costs and productivity, define skill requirements, design talent and career pathways, and establish sustainable workforce strategies within different healthcare contexts.

Requirements

Minimum of 8 years of experience in healthcare workforce advisory, healthcare consulting, talent strategy, organization design, labor analytics, strategic workforce planning, provider operations, Medicaid, public health, or health system transformation.

Nice To Haves

Experience leading strategic workforce planning, labor analytics, workforce supply-demand analysis, talent strategy, organization design, career pathway strategy, or healthcare workforce transformation.
Experience developing workforce forecasts, capacity models, workforce gap analyses, labor cost analyses, productivity analyses, skills assessments, or financial sustainability analyses for healthcare organizations.
Experience designing workforce pipelines, career pathways, competency models, skills taxonomies, role progression frameworks, or future-state role models.
Experience working with hospitals, health systems, rural providers, state agencies, Medicaid programs, public health agencies, hospital associations, HR / talent leaders, finance leaders, or workforce ecosystem partners.
Experience evaluating higher education and workforce ecosystem partnerships, including academic medical centers, universities, community colleges, technical schools, workforce boards, or training organizations.
Strong understanding of healthcare workforce challenges, including labor shortages, staffing models, recruitment, retention, skill mix, workforce affordability, clinical capacity, and rural provider sustainability.
Experience translating policy, funding, RFP, RFA, or application language into workforce advisory scope and implementation plans.
Experience with workforce analytics tools, labor market data, HRIS data, clinical operations data, productivity benchmarks, or healthcare workforce datasets.
Experience with rural health, RHTP, CHW programs, behavioral health workforce, primary care workforce, nursing workforce, public health workforce, or Medicaid transformation.
Experience with care model redesign, value-based care implementation, telehealth adoption, provider transformation, or clinical operations improvement.

Responsibilities

Lead workforce advisory engagements for state agencies, health systems, rural hospitals, provider organizations, hospital associations, and public health stakeholders.
Assess current workforce capacity, staffing models, labor cost pressures, vacancy trends, turnover, productivity, skill mix, role design, and future workforce needs.
Develop workforce supply-demand analyses at the state, regional, provider, or service-line level, considering role, skill, geography, and care model.
Build strategic workforce plans connecting service demand, future care models, labor supply, labor cost, skills, organizational design, and financial sustainability.
Lead labor analytics work, including workforce forecasting, scenario modeling, labor cost analysis, productivity analysis, gap analysis, and workforce investment prioritization.
Design workforce pipeline and career pathway strategies for critical healthcare roles (clinical, behavioral health, community health, care management, digital health, operational).
Define skills, competencies, role expectations, and future-state capability needs for healthcare workforces.
Advise on talent strategy, organization design, workforce operating models, governance, role clarity, decision rights, and workforce planning processes.
Evaluate external labor supply and ecosystem partnership strategies with academic institutions and workforce development organizations.
Support care team and role redesign, including team-based care, CHW integration, telehealth-enabled staffing, provider support, and new roles.
Translate RHTP applications, RFPs, RFAs, budget narratives, and state workforce initiatives into practical advisory scope, workplans, staffing models, and delivery approaches.
Lead proposal development, solution narratives, client workshops, executive presentations, and delivery mobilization for workforce advisory opportunities.
Travel as needed to support client work.