Associate Healthcare Consultant

ARUP Laboratories; United States; On-site; USD 65,000 - 98,000; Full time

Job summary

ARUP Laboratories, headquartered in Salt Lake City, Utah, seeks an Associate Healthcare Consultant to support Healthcare Advisory Services. This on-site role (Mon-Fri, 40 hrs/wk) focuses on data preparation, analysis, and benchmarking to improve laboratory operations and financial performance.

The position involves developing dashboards, conducting client engagements, and contributing to deliverables and knowledge resources while collaborating with ARUP teams across projects.

Qualifications

• Collects, cleans, organizes, validates, and transforms healthcare, operational, and financial data.
• Performs quantitative and qualitative analyses using established methodologies and quality standards.
• Develops and maintains dashboards, reports, benchmarking resources, and other analytical tools.
• Summarizes analytical findings and prepares draft insights and supporting materials for consultant review.
• Identifies data quality concerns, risks, inconsistencies, and analytical limitations and escalates issues appropriately.

Responsibilities

• Conducts healthcare, laboratory, market, operational, and benchmarking research in support of client engagements, internal initiatives, and service offerings.
• Compiles, evaluates, and organizes research findings and source materials for use by consulting team members.
• Supports development and maintenance of benchmarking resources, knowledge repositories, methodologies, and reusable content libraries.
• Monitors healthcare and laboratory industry developments and shares relevant findings with the consulting team.
• Supports preparation and production of presentations, reports, proposals, dashboards, and other consulting deliverables.
• Develops tables, charts, summaries, and draft presentation content derived from analyses and research activities and reviews work for accuracy, consistency, and completeness.
• Supports development, standardization, and maintenance of consulting tools, templates, methodologies, and recurring deliverables.
• Participates in client meetings, interviews, conference calls, and project working sessions as assigned.
• Documents meeting discussions, decisions, action items, and follow-up requirements.
• Collaborates with consultants and cross-functional ARUP teams to support project execution, deliverable development, and client engagement activities.
• Contributes to continuous improvement, standardization, and service development initiatives within Healthcare Advisory Services.
• Develops knowledge of laboratory operations, utilization management, laboratory outreach, healthcare finance, staffing analytics, and operational improvement methodologies

Job description

Schedule

Monday - Friday (40 hrs/wk)

8:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Associate Healthcare Consultant salary range $65,478.40 to $98,196.80 USD

***Exact compensation will vary based on skills and experience.***

This role is headquartered in Salt Lake City, Utah. Employees based in Utah are expected to work on-site Monday-Friday. Remote work may be available for candidates located outside of Utah.

Department

Healthcare Advisory Services - 955

Primary Purpose

Supports Healthcare Advisory Services consulting engagements and internal initiatives through data preparation and analysis, research and benchmarking, preparation and production of deliverables, and defined project support activities. Works under the direction of Consultants, Senior Consultants, and department leadership to produce accurate, timely, and consistent work that supports healthcare organizations in improving laboratory operations, stewardship, outreach performance, staffing, operational efficiency, and financial performance.

Builds foundational consulting, analytical, and laboratory industry expertise through participation in client engagements, internal initiatives, and product development efforts. Contributes findings and draft insights while developing the judgement, communication skills, and technical knowledge needed for increasing responsibility within Healthcare Advisory Services.

About ARUP

ARUP Laboratories is a national clinical and anatomic pathology reference laboratory and an enterprise of the University of Utah and its Department of Pathology. Based in Salt Lake City, Utah.

ARUP proudly hires top talent to create a work environment of diversity, professional growth and continuous development. Our workforce is committed to the important service we provide to over one million patients each month. We always strive for excellence and have a strong desire to have involvement with the advances in medicine and the role laboratory services plays within each patient’s life. We never forget that there is a patient behind every specimen we receive.

We are looking for individuals who want to contribute to ARUP's culture of accountability, integrity, service, and excellence. Consider joining our dynamic team.

Essential Functions

Data, Analytics, and Reporting

• Collects, cleans, organizes, validates, and transforms healthcare, operational, financial, and laboratory data from multiple sources.
• Performs quantitative and qualitative analyses using established methodologies and quality standards.
• Develops and maintains dashboards, reports, benchmarking resources, and other analytical tools.
• Summarizes analytical findings and prepares draft insights and supporting materials for consultant review.
• Identifies data quality concerns, risks, inconsistencies, and analytical limitations and escalates issues appropriately.

Research, Benchmarking, and Knowledge Resources

• Conducts healthcare, laboratory, market, operational, and benchmarking research in support of client engagements, internal initiatives, and service offerings.
• Compiles, evaluates, and organizes research findings and source materials for use by consulting team members.
• Supports development and maintenance of benchmarking resources, knowledge repositories, methodologies, and reusable content libraries.
• Monitors healthcare and laboratory industry developments and shares relevant findings with the consulting team.

Deliverable and Resource Development

• Supports preparation and production of presentations, reports, proposals, dashboards, and other consulting deliverables.
• Develops tables, charts, summaries, and draft presentation content derived from analyses and research activities and reviews work for accuracy, consistency, and completeness.
• Supports development, standardization, and maintenance of consulting tools, templates, methodologies, and recurring deliverables.

Engagement and Project Support

• Participates in client meetings, interviews, conference calls, and project working sessions as assigned.
• Documents meeting discussions, decisions, action items, and follow-up requirements.
• Collaborates with consultants and cross-functional ARUP teams to support project execution, deliverable development, and client engagement activities.

Practice Development and Professional Growth

• Contributes to continuous improvement, standardization, and service development initiatives within Healthcare Advisory Services.
• Develops knowledge of laboratory operations, utilization management, laboratory outreach, healthcare finance, staffing analytics, and operational improvement methodologies

Physical And Other Requirements

• Stooping: Bending body downward and forward by bending spine at the waist.
• Reaching: Extending hand(s) and arm(s) in any direction.
• Mobility: The person in this position needs to occasionally move between work sites and inside the office to access file cabinets, office machinery, etc.
• Communicate: Frequently communicate with others.
• PPE: Biohazard laboratory environment that requires use of personal protective equipment in accordance with CDC and OSHA regulations and company policies.
• ARUP Policies and Procedures: To conduct self in compliance with all ARUP Policies and Procedures.
• Sedentary Work: Exerting up to 10 pounds of force occasionally and/or negligible amount of force frequently or constantly to lift, carry, push, pull or otherwise move objects.
• Travel: Ability to travel off-site 20% of time