Consultant Advisory Services - Supply Chain Optimization

Premier, Inc.; United States; Remote; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Premier, Inc. is seeking a Consultant Advisory Services - Supply Chain Optimization to collaborate on healthcare system performance improvements. You will lead data analyses, draft deliverables, and help implement recommended changes for client engagements.

You'll work in a team-driven environment, participate in practice development, and build data-driven insights using Tableau, SQL, and Excel while maintaining project utilization targets.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of applicable experience in advisory, analytics, or consulting.
• Familiarity with healthcare analytics and performance management.
• Comfort with data gathering, interviews, and delivering presentations.

Responsibilities

• Obtain data, run analyses, and prepare verbal/graphic presentations.
• Draft recommendations and support client deliveries.
• Develop client deliverables and assist in change implementation.
• Lead quality assurance of analytics deliverables.

Skills

Data analysis

Tableau

SQL

Advanced Excel

R/Python/SAS

BI analytics

Negotiation

Networking

Healthcare experience

Problem solving

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Tools

Tableau

Excel

SQL

Python

Job description

Consultant Advisory Services - Supply Chain Optimization

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 our client’s needs; take the lead in analyzing data and interpreting data; forming initial recommendations based on data interpretations, observations, and interviews; drafting deliverables for various audiences; and assisting 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, and 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 Premier 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.

• 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.
• Summarizes 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 Requirements: Travel 61-80% within the US Physical Demands: Sedentary: Exerting up to 10 pounds