Associate Consultant, Healthcare

Fulcrum Health Partners; Nashville (TN); Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health/dental/vision benefits

Paid time off (PTO)

Retirement plan

Job summary

Fulcrum Health Partners in Nashville, TN is seeking an Associate Consultant, Healthcare to help develop strategy for senior executives and lead contract and financial diligence workstreams.

The role offers hybrid work with two to three days onsite, requires 2-4 years at a leading advisory firm, and provides a competitive compensation package including a bonus.

Qualifications

• 2–4 years in healthcare/financial advisory firm.
• Bachelor’s degree from a top university; outstanding academics.
• Advanced financial modeling and Excel skills required.
• Strong PowerPoint and storytelling for C-suite audiences.
• Knowledge of provider reimbursement and payer contracting.
• Willing to relocate to Nashville, TN and work onsite 2–3 days/week.

Responsibilities

• Develop growth, reimbursement, and payer strategies for senior leaders.
• Lead diligence workstreams on payer contracts for PE sponsors and banks.
• Build executive-ready presentations with clear storylines and financials.
• Structure client problems into hypotheses and analyses.
• Manage timelines, data requests, and client follow-up end-to-end.

Skills

Experience: 2-4 years

Advanced financial modeling

Excel

PowerPoint

Storytelling to C-suite

Reimbursement knowledge

Client-facing

Education

Bachelor's degree from top-tier university

Tools

Power BI

Tableau

SQL

Python

Job description

Fulcrum Health Partners | Nashville, TN (Hybrid, 2-3 days onsite) | Full-Time | Associate Level | Reports to Director / Senior Director, Healthcare Advisory

Today's Challenges. Tomorrow's Solutions.

Experience: 2-4 years at a leading healthcare, financial, or transaction advisory firm (required).

Compensation: $100,000+ per year, plus performance bonus.

ABOUT FULCRUM HEALTH PARTNERS

Fulcrum Health Partners is an advisory firm working at the intersection of provider reimbursement, payer contracting, and healthcare M&A. Our clients are the CEOs, CFOs, and investment teams behind large healthcare organizations: physician groups and MSOs, health systems, private equity sponsors, and investment banks.

ABOUT THE ROLE

The Associate Consultant, Healthcare is a client-facing consulting role for an early-career professional trained at a top advisory firm. You will help develop strategy for senior executives, lead contract and financial diligence workstreams, and build the management presentations that turn analysis into decisions. The work spans managed care, reimbursement, and strategy, with direct exposure to C-suite and deal-team audiences from day one.

WHO WE'RE LOOKING FOR

You cut your teeth at a firm like FTI Consulting, Huron, Crowe, Alvarez & Marsal, Guidehouse, Kaufman Hall, Chartis, ECG, or a Big Four advisory practice. You have an outstanding academic record from a top university. You can structure a messy problem, build the model behind the answer, and stand in front of a CFO or an investment committee and explain what it means.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

Executive Strategy & Advisory

• Develop growth, reimbursement, and payer strategies for CEOs, CFOs, and boards of physician MSOs, health systems, and provider platforms.
• Structure ambiguous client problems into clear hypotheses, workplans, and analyses that drive to a recommendation.
• Assess market position, competitive dynamics, and payer mix to identify revenue, margin, and growth opportunities.
• Support value-creation plans for platform and add-on investments.
• Lead diligence workstreams on payer contract portfolios for private equity sponsors, investment banks, and strategic acquirers.
• Evaluate contract terms, rate positioning, escalators, and renewal and termination risk to quantify revenue exposure and upside.
• Build quality-of-revenue and reimbursement sensitivity analyses that support valuation, deal structuring, and post-close planning.
• Draft diligence findings and red-flag reports that hold up under investor and lender scrutiny.

Managed Care & Reimbursement Analysis

• Analyze commercial, Medicare Advantage, and Medicaid managed care contracts and fee schedules across specialties and markets.
• Benchmark client rates against Medicare, market, and payer price transparency data to size the renegotiation opportunity.
• Model the financial impact of fee-for-service, case rate, per diem, capitation, bundled, and value-based methodologies.

Management Presentations & Client Delivery

• Build executive-ready presentations with a clear storyline, financial case, and recommended actions.
• Present findings to client leadership, investment committees, and deal teams alongside engagement leadership.
• Own defined workstreams end to end: timelines, data requests, analysis, quality control, and client follow-up.

WHAT YOU'LL BRING (REQUIRED)

• 2-4 years of experience at a leading healthcare, financial, or transaction advisory firm. Consulting-firm experience is required.
• Bachelor's degree from a top-tier university with outstanding academic performance (cumulative GPA of 3.5+ preferred; transcripts required).
• Advanced financial modeling and Excel skills.
• Strong PowerPoint and storytelling skills, with materials built for C-suite, board, or investor audiences.
• Working knowledge of provider reimbursement and payer contracting.
• Poise and credibility with senior executives.
• Located in or willing to relocate to the Nashville, TN area and work onsite two to three days per week.

PREFERRED

• Healthcare transaction experience supporting PE sponsors, investment banks, or strategic acquirers.
• Payer contract analysis, rate benchmarking, or price transparency data experience.
• SQL, Python, Power BI, or Tableau.
• MBA, MHA, MPH, CFA, or progress toward one.

COMPENSATION & BENEFITS

$90,000 - $120,000 per year, plus a performance-based bonus. Benefits summary to be provided to candidates- we offer full health/dental/vision, PTO, and retirement.

LOCATION & TRAVEL

Hybrid, based in Nashville, Tennessee, with two to three days per week onsite. Candidates must be authorized to work in the United States. Client travel of roughly once or twice per month may be required.

Fulcrum Health Partners is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, genetic information, marital status, pregnancy, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law, and we provide reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities throughout the hiring process. To request an accommodation, contact [e-mail].