Consultant Advisory Services - Supply Chain Optimization

Premier Inc.

United States

On-site

USD 80,000 - 130,000

Full time

39 hours ago

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Job summary

Premier Professional Systems, Inc. in the United States seeks a Consultant for analytics-focused roles within the Advisory Services practice. You will collaborate with a team to deliver performance improvement for healthcare systems and perform billable client work.

You will lead data analysis, generate initial recommendations, and help draft deliverables and implement improvements. The role involves presenting findings and working across engagement phases, with opportunity to mentor Analysts.

Qualifications

2+ years of applicable experience.
High School diploma required.
Bachelor’s degree in a related field.
Healthcare, business, or finance experience preferred.
Experience in healthcare, business, or finance; demonstrated interest in healthcare performance management.

Responsibilities

Obtain data, execute analyses, interpret data, and prepare presentations.
Identify client needs via interviews and analytical tools; summarize findings and draw insights.
Develop recommendations for leadership and deliverables; help implement changes.
Lead and support engagement team; quality assure analytics deliverables.
Contribute to practice development and internal activities; oversee Analysts.

Skills

Market trends awareness

Negotiation skills

Networking

Healthcare industry knowledge

Risk management understanding

Data gathering & research

R/Python/SAS/Matlab

Advanced Excel

Tableau

Business Intelligence

Education

Bachelor’s degree

High School (Required)

Tools

Tableau

Excel

Python

SAS

Matlab

Job description

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.

What you will be doing

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. 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. 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.

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