Consulting Associate - Healthcare, Performance Improvement (Flexible Living Locations)

The Opportunity

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.

Position Summary

Associates play an indispensable role at Huron. Our dynamic Associates lead one or more project work streams utilizing Huron approaches, methodologies and tools to implement impactful and innovative solutions to address our clients’ business challenges. Skilled relationship builders, our Associates collaborate with client staff and leadership while simultaneously managing junior Huron staff. Everyone works in symphony to achieve a common objective: create and implement sustainable solutions. Through our varied projects, Associates gain valuable, hands-on consulting and change management experience, while positively impacting mission-driven healthcare organizations.

Huron prides itself on being a firm big enough to boast a global footprint – yet not too big to hinder our entrepreneurial spirit. This allows everyone to make an impact and gives you access to a multitude of career paths both within and beyond your areas of expertise. Our focus on professional development is unmatched as you build critical leadership skills to grow your career and mentor junior Huron staff to do the same. We’re dedicated to helping you reach your true potential! Create your future at Huron.

Qualifications

REQUIRED SKILLS:   

• Demonstrated ability to create and utilize workplans to effectively prioritize and manage multiple concurrent tasks with a high sense urgency across one or more workstreams; effective at delegating tasks to junior staff while managing the overall quality of project deliverables  
• Proven critical thinking skills in both data collection and complex analysis; ability to identify data gaps and risks, develop sound conclusions, and create implementable and sustainable recommendations for improvement  
• Professional and polished written and verbal communication skills; ability to effectively summarize information and present findings and recommendations to internal and client leadership; skilled at interactions with varying levels of client personal from staff to leadership  
• Ability to apply proven methodologies and best practices to unique client situations; skilled at collaboration with project team members and client stakeholders to design and implement effective solutions to complex business problems 
• Direct supervisory experience including coaching, mentorship, and performance management  
• Required to complete all assigned instructed courses and compliance trainings

CORE QUALIFICATIONS:  

• Bachelor's degree required
• Experience in a client-facing, professional services environment required.
• 3 to 5 years relevant project implementation or process improvement experience in a team-based environment, preferably within healthcare or consulting
• Willingness and ability to travel every week (Monday-Thursday with occasional onsite Fridays) and work extended hours as needed 
• Project-Lead experience, overseeing the work of junior colleagues on an engagement
• Ability to lead a project workstream with minimal supervision
• Experience working directly with clients on a project
• Strong ownership mindset
• Proficient in Microsoft office (Word, PowerPoint, Excel)  
• Preferred experience in a matrixed organization
• US Work Authorization required  

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The estimated base salary range for this job is $100,000 - $130,000.  The range represents a good faith estimate of the range that Huron reasonably expects to pay for this job at the time of the job posting. The actual salary paid to an individual will vary based on multiple factors, including but not limited to specific skills or certifications, years of experience, market changes, and required travel. This job is also eligible to participate in Huron’s annual incentive compensation program, which reflects Huron’s pay for performance philosophy.  Inclusive of annual incentive compensation opportunity, the total estimated compensation range for this job is $112,000 - $153,400. The job is also eligible to participate in Huron’s benefit plans which include medical, dental and vision coverage and other wellness programs. The salary range information provided is in accordance with applicable state and local laws regarding salary transparency that are currently in effect and may be implemented in the future. 

Posting Category

Healthcare

Opportunity Type

Regular

Country

United States of America