Associate Consultant - Facilities and Construction

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Summary:

Vizient integrates the activities of architects, engineers, third party equipment planners and consultants involved in facilities maintenance and construction projects to create a positive financial outcome for our clients. In this role, you will work with Vizient teams and client stakeholders across the country in identifying initiatives for cost-savings, revenue enhancement and operational improvements. As part of our consulting team, you will conduct analyses, present your recommendations (internally and externally) and provide project management and data analytical support for our consulting teams. 

Responsibilities:

• Use Power BI (PBI), Tableau, Excel, Access, SQL and other tools to develop internal and external facing dashboards, reports, and other analytics.

• Perform maintenance and development of PBI dashboards. Perform data quality audits and make necessary changes and recommendations to data and/or process.

• Manage collection of internal feedback and recommend improvements to data analytics.

• Review architectural specifications and construction drawings. Prepare supplier alignments for use in validating and tracking client and Vizient contract utilization of 3rd party spend for facility operations and construction initiatives.

• Assist in the development and maintenance of project work plans; identify, track, and validate savings and revenue achieved through program engagement.

• Collect, utilize, analyze, interpret, and present disparate and often fragmented data to drive an action for client performance improvement.

• Provide support to consultants on member engagements including research, development of presentations, meeting preparation, status report preparation, issue identification and tracking/updating project budgets.

• Manage high-volume workload with changing priorities.

Qualifications:

• Relevant degree.

• 2 or more years of relevant experience required.

• Proficient in Excel expertise required.

• Proficient in Power BI.

• Experience with Access and SQL highly preferred.

• Excellent presentation and communication skills are required.

• Basic understanding of construction documents and specifications highly preferred.

• Ability to plan, organize, and manage time across multiple tasks working individually or as a member of a cross-functional team.

Estimated Hiring Range:

This position is also incentive eligible.

Vizient has a comprehensive benefits plan! Please view our benefits here:

http://www.vizientinc.com/about-us/careers

Equal Opportunity Employer:   Females/Minorities/Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities

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