Consultant Advisory Services

Premier; Myrtle Point (OR); Remote; USD 72,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare consulting firm in Oregon is seeking a Consultant to join their team. This role focuses on delivering performance improvements by analyzing healthcare data, leading client interactions, and preparing insightful reports. Candidates should have a Bachelor's degree and at least two years of relevant experience. The position requires strong analytical skills, attention to detail, and the ability to engage collaboratively with clients. Compensation ranges from $72,000 to $120,000 depending on experience and skills. Remote work is required with significant travel within the U.S.

Benefits

Health insurance

401k

Tuition reimbursement

Flexible scheduling

Qualifications

• 2 or more years of applicable experience in healthcare, business, or finance.
• Experience analyzing complex data sets and developing insights.
• Ability to effectively communicate findings to various audiences.

Responsibilities

• Engage with clients to identify needs and lead data analysis.
• Prepare presentations and reports based on data interpretations.
• Participate in internal practice development activities.

Skills

Data analytics

Client interaction

Statistical tools (R, Python, SAS)

Leadership

Attention to detail

Risk management

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Tableau

Excel

Job description

Overview

Consultant Advisory Services

What you will be doing

The Consultant works collaboratively within a team of highly qualified Advisory consultants to deliver performance improvement to healthcare systems. This position will be primarily responsible for performing billable work for clients. The role of the Consultant is to actively participate with an engagement team to determine client needs; take the lead in analyzing data and interpreting data; form initial recommendations based on data interpretations, observations, and interviews; draft deliverables for various audiences; and assist in the implementation of recommended improvements.

The Consultant participates in all aspects of the engagement including identifying issues, forming hypotheses, planning, and participating in interviews, leading analyses, data interpretation, synthesizing, and forming conclusions into recommendations, drafting deliverables, and helping to implement change. This position will work in a team environment and provide input and support to team deliverables and presentations during each phase of a project. They may be asked to oversee the work of an Analyst during the delivery of the engagement.

Consultants are required to participate in internal activities including practice development, required, and approved educational opportunities throughout the year, and learn the various technologies Premier offers to its clients. Additionally, the Consultant should:

• Maintain utilization targets for client billable projects
• Create value through meaningful client interactions, data analytics and insights, and team participation on client projects
• Create value for the Advisory practice through meaningful participation on practice related activities aimed at growing and enriching the Practice as a whole or individual Service Lines within the Practice

Analytics Focused Roles

Consultants on the Analytics team will have some expertise in Premier and PINC AI databases and methods of connecting existing and new datasets together to create enriched content used for analytics. This role interacts with clients, Premier internal product teams, and Advisory counterparts across all the service lines; and is expected to build working relationships within the Premier/Client team. They will lead production and quality assurance of client analytics deliverables and provide data-driven insights and solutions. Additional responsibilities include:

• Build and maintain dynamic and interactive data models based on Premier and client needs
• Lead process standardization efforts.
• Lead efforts to standardize and automate client deliverables and internal tools
• Troubleshoot Tableau workbooks, SQL scripts, Excel analyses, etc.

Key Responsibilities

60%

• Obtain data, execute/direct/oversee analyses, initiate interpretations, and conclusions, and prepare verbal and graphic presentations, using methods that are professionally sound and efficient relative to project objectives and conform to standards.
• Assist in determining client needs by effectively participating in client interviews and utilizing various tools and analytical methods. Summaries analytical findings in a coherent manner and draws insight from observations, interviews, and data analyses. Develops accurate conclusions from findings. Drafts recommendations for team leadership review.
• Effectively executes on project plans in accordance with engagement statements of work and to client satisfaction.
• Develop presentations and deliverables for client audiences that communicate strategy and outcomes.
• Generate billings revenue by conducting assigned analyses, writing, and preparing reports, and assisting clients in implementing desired changes.
• Actively listens for market opportunities on current engagements and collaborative networks and communicates potential leads to managers.

20%

Participate in practice development activities for the Advisory Services Practice overall or for the Service Lines within the Practice.

15%

• Learn Premier based technologies and services.

5%

• Complete all required training requirements on an annual basis

Required Qualifications

Work Experience:

Years of Applicable Experience - 2 or more years

Education:

High School (Required)

Preferred Qualifications

Skills:

• Awareness of: Market trends and key competitor’s activities; negotiation skills; effective approaches to closing the sale; networking; client and healthcare industry
• Understand risk management practices; identifies, communicates, and responds to risks and issues to manager
• Assist in determining client needs by gathering and researching data, utilizing common tools and analytical methods
• Statistical tools (R, Python, SAS, Matlab, etc.), Advanced Excel skills, Tableau, Business Intelligence

Analytics Focused Roles

Lean Process Improvement; Six Sigma Green/Black belt

Experience:

• Experience in healthcare, business, or finance
• Demonstrated interest in healthcare performance management
• Demonstrated capability to lead and show value from their efforts

Analytics Focused Roles

• Experience analyzing complex healthcare data sets and developing visualizations and presentations to support data-driven recommendations
• Experience with qualitative and quantitative data validation and analysis
• Experience in new methodology development and strategic problem-solving skills

Education:

Bachelor’s degree

Additional Job Requirements:

• Remain in a stationary position for prolonged periods of time
• Be adaptive and change priorities quickly; meet deadlines
• Attention to detail
• Operate computer programs and software
• Ability to communicate effectively with audiences in person and in electronic formats
• Day-to-day contact with others (co-workers and/or the public)
• Making independent decisions
• Ability to work in a collaborative business environment in close quarters with peers and varying interruptions

Working Conditions

Remote travel required. Travel 81-100% within the US. Physical Demands: Sedentary work with occasional lifting of up to 10 pounds; mostly stationary.

Premier’s compensation philosophy is to ensure that compensation is reasonable, equitable, and competitive. Internal salary range for this role is $72,000 - $120,000, with final salary depending on market factors such as budgets, equity, education, skills/experience, and location.

Benefits include health, dental, vision, life and disability insurance; 401k; paid time off; participation in incentive plans; tuition reimbursement and professional development opportunities.

Premier at a glance:

• Ranked #1 on Charlotte’s Healthiest Employers list for 2019, 2020, 2022, and 2023; 21st Healthiest Employer in America (2023)
• Named one of the World’s Most Ethical Companies by Ethisphere Institute for the 16th year in a row
• Modern Healthcare Best in Business Awards: Consultant - Healthcare Management (2024)
• The only company to be recognized by KLAS twice for Overall Healthcare Management Consulting

For a listing of all of our awards, please visit the Awards and Recognition section on our company website.

Employees receive:

• Perks and discounts
• Access to on-site and online exercise classes

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