Huron Consulting Group - Chicago, IL
posted 4 days ago
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.
Responsibilities
- Independently lead and direct teams in the delivery of complex performance improvement engagements.
- Create collaborative, high performing work environments while addressing issues and ensuring successful client outcomes.
- Manage engagement-wide economics, such as budgets, invoicing, and billing.
- Quantify financial and operational benefits for performance improvement initiatives.
- Identify risks to achieving projected outcomes and develop solutions to address data gaps or risks.
- Create presentations and proposals and deliver those with impact to key client stakeholders.
- Build strong relationships while leading a multi-faceted change process.
- Demonstrate change management expertise and positively influence change in complex environments.
- Provide team leadership including role definition, team building, coaching/mentoring, and performance management.
- Build and maintain a professional network and identify business development opportunities.
- Complete all assigned instructed courses and compliance trainings.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree required.
- Willingness and ability to travel every week up to 80% (Monday-Thursday with occasional onsite Fridays).
- Strong leadership and management skills aligning to Huron's core values and competencies.
- Excellent communication skills - oral and written.
- Interpersonal skills needed to quickly establish relationships of trust and collaboration.
- Ability to train and participate in the professional development of Huron staff.
- Ability to contribute on multiple projects of differing scale and duration.
- Proficient in Microsoft Office (Word, PowerPoint, Excel).
- Direct supervisory experience of both individuals and teams.
- 8-10 years of consulting and/or healthcare operations experience.
- US Work Authorization required.
Nice-to-haves
- Relevant hospital operations experience directing a department and/or team-based projects with a focus on process re-engineering/performance improvement initiatives and change management.
- Project leadership and workplan management experience within a consulting firm setting with a focus on healthcare supply chain services.
- Specific experience in cost and expense management within administrative and corporate functions.
- Strong understanding/methodology in reducing supply chain costs related to clinical supplies, physician preference items (PPI's), GPO process optimization, strategic sourcing, inventory management.
- Specific clinical leadership experience in multiple and varied care settings with a focus on care delivery optimization and redesign.
