Client Partner, Healthcare

Slalom; Columbus (OH); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k) with match

Health, dental, & vision coverage

Well-being reimbursement

Job summary

Slalom Build is seeking a Client Partner at the Director level to grow our Healthcare business in the Ohio Valley, with a focus on providers and health systems in Columbus, OH. You will lead strategic relationships, identify opportunities, and guide pre-sales and delivery efforts to drive outcomes.

You will partner with healthcare executives to shape direction, align Slalom capabilities, and help health systems transform care delivery, workforce, and technology strategies across provider

Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years of experience in healthcare provider industry or health systems consulting.
• Willing to live within a commutable distance of Columbus, OH.
• Experience selling to C-suite executives and senior leaders.
• Director level or equivalent leadership experience preferred.

Responsibilities

• Identify and growth opportunities within healthcare provider accounts across the Ohio Valley.
• Develop annual account plans and drive strategies that generate new sales and deepen relationships.
• Lead delivery and governance across engagements, ensuring outcomes and financial health.
• Collaborate across Slalom capabilities to bring integrated healthcare solutions to market.

Skills

Relationship building

Executive selling

Healthcare industry knowledge

Strategic leadership

Communication skills

Education

MBA/MHA/MPH

Job description

Our Healthcare & Life Sciences (HCLS) team helps organizations redefine what’s possible, shape the future, and achieve meaningful results. We focus on high-impact initiatives, meeting clients where they are to uncover business needs and deliver measurable outcomes. Our teams go beyond expectations, helping clients navigate ambiguity and risk with confidence while driving transformative change.

Slalom is actively seeking a Client Partner to grow the Slalom brand and expand our Healthcare business across the Ohio Valley, with a particular focus on providers and health systems. This Client Partner will build and deepen relationships with healthcare organizations, helping clients solve complex business and technology challenges while leveraging the full breadth of Slalom’s services and capabilities. This opportunity is targeted at the Director level.

Do you thrive on partnering closely with clients to set strategic direction, deliver innovative solutions, and shape the future of healthcare? We’d love to get to know you.

Candidates must be located within a reasonable commuting distance of Columbus, Ohio.

What You’ll Do

Business Development

• Identify and lead opportunities within healthcare provider accounts, including health systems, hospitals, academic medical centers, physician groups, and other care delivery organizations.
• Build relationships and create new opportunities across the provider ecosystem, spanning clinical, operational, digital, data, technology, and patient experience initiatives.
• Own and manage the full lifecycle of the consulting sales process and all steps in the pre-sales motion for advisory and delivery work.
• Maintain an active presence in the Columbus and broader Ohio Valley healthcare market, establishing Slalom as a top-of-mind strategy, business, and technology consulting partner for provider organizations.

Client Service and Delivery Leadership

• Drive account growth by developing annual account plans for healthcare clients and executing strategies that generate new sales and deepen existing relationships.
• Guide delivery teams to ensure strong execution aligned with client goals, clinical and operational outcomes, workforce needs, financial performance, and patient experience.
• Utilize deep healthcare industry knowledge to partner with clients, influence strategic direction, and identify ways Slalom can help health systems achieve their business, clinical, and technology objectives.
• Lead from the front through billable roles on active engagements, such as client service lead, delivery lead, SME, engagement lead, or accountable executive.
• Provide oversight and governance across sold and managed healthcare engagements. Operate a fiscally healthy portfolio, managing levers such as utilization, revenue, gross profit, and pipeline.
• Assist in developing and executing the Healthcare industry strategy and business plan for the Ohio Valley, with a particular focus on provider and health system growth.
• Collaborate across Slalom’s capabilities, including technology, data, experience, and organizational effectiveness, to bring integrated healthcare solutions to market.
• Identify opportunities to expand and mature Slalom’s healthcare offerings based on evolving client needs and market trends.
• Provide thought leadership to clients by developing perspectives on emerging healthcare trends, including care delivery transformation, workforce challenges, digital health, AI and data, patient experience, operational efficiency, and evolving reimbursement models.

What You’ll Bring

Industry Background / Knowledge (Healthcare Providers)

• Deep understanding of the provider healthcare ecosystem, including health systems, hospitals, academic medical centers, physician groups, and other care delivery organizations.
• Strong knowledge of healthcare market dynamics, including care delivery models, health system operations, reimbursement, value-based care, patient access and experience, clinical transformation, and enabling technologies.
• Experience leading complex conversations with senior healthcare executives, translating industry trends and data-driven insights into actionable strategies.
• Established credibility and relationships within the Columbus and/or Ohio healthcare provider market are highly valued.

Qualifications, Skills, and Competencies

• A minimum of 5 years of experience working within the healthcare provider industry OR a minimum of 5 years of experience within a leading consulting firm with a primary focus on health systems, hospitals, and provider clients.
• MBA, MHA, MPH, or equivalent advanced degree preferred.
• Comfortable developing relationships with and selling to senior healthcare executives, including C-suite leaders, clinical leaders, operations executives, digital and technology leaders, and other health system decision-makers.
• Demonstrated ability to build relationships, originate opportunities, and grow consulting business within healthcare accounts.
• You must live within a commutable distance of Columbus, Ohio.

About Us

Slalom is a fiercely human business and technology consulting company that leads with outcomes to bring more value, in all ways, always. From strategy through delivery, our agile teams across 52 offices in 12 countries partner with clients to co-create powerful customer experiences, modern ways of working, and meaningful impact.

What sets us apart? We believe work should be challenging and fulfilling, not perfect, but possible. That’s why we prioritize purpose, flexibility, connection, and recognition, so our people can thrive and love what they do, most days.

Compensation and Benefits

Slalom prides itself on helping team members thrive in their work and life. As a result, Slalom is proud to invest in benefits that includemeaningful time off and paid holidays, parental leave, 401(k) with a match, a range of choices for highly subsidized health, dental, & vision coverage, adoption and fertility assistance, and short/long-term disability. We also offer yearly $350 reimbursement account for any well-being-related expenses, as well as discounted home, auto, and pet insurance.

Slalom is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices.For this role, we are hiring at the following levels and targeted base pay salary ranges: The targeted base salary pay range for Director is $180,000 to $240,000. In addition, individuals may be eligible for an annual discretionary bonus . Actual compensation will depend upon an individual’s skills, experience, qualifications, location, and other relevant factors. The salary pay range is subject to change and may be modified at any time.

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EEO and Accommodations

Slalom is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to attracting, developing and retaining highly qualified talent who empower our innovative teams through unique perspectives and experiences. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veterans’ status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws. Slalom will also consider qualified applications with criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. Slalom welcomes and encourages applications from individuals with disabilities. Reasonable accommodations are available for candidates during all aspects of these selection processes. Please advise the talent acquisition team or contact [e-mail] if you require accommodations during the interview process.

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