Healthcare Consulting Manager - Supply Chain

Huron Consulting Group Inc.; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 145,000 - 185,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical coverage

Dental coverage

Vision coverage

401(k) plan

Job summary

Huron Consulting Group seeks a Manager in the Healthcare Performance Improvement practice to lead multi-workstream engagements, optimize procurement and supply chain processes, and coach junior staff. Travel up to 50% is expected. Strong analytic, communication, and project leadership skills required.

You'll direct teams, manage client relationships, and drive measurable performance improvements across healthcare operations.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required.
• Travel up to 50% based on client/projects.
• Excellent oral and written communication; interpersonal skills to build trust and collaboration.
• Ability to train and participate in professional development of staff in project management and technical dimensions.
• Proficient in Word, PowerPoint, Excel.
• Direct supervisory experience in a matrixed organization.

Responsibilities

• Lead initiatives to streamline procurement, inventory management, and distribution processes in healthcare.
• Utilize data analytics to forecast demand and drive continuous improvement in supply chain operations.
• Plan and manage complex multi-workstream performance improvement projects; oversee junior staff.
• Synthesize complex data sets and interpret trends to implement measurable performance improvements.
• Develop deliverables, manage risks, and influence senior stakeholders.

Skills

Procurement leadership

Data analytics

Organization & planning

Analytical thinking

Communication skills

Client stakeholder management

Team leadership

Compliance training

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Microsoft Office

Job description

Huron helps its clients drive growth, enhance performance and sustain leadership in the markets they serve. We help healthcare organizations build innovation capabilities and accelerate key growth initiatives, enabling organizations to own the future, instead of being disrupted by it. Together, we empower clients to create sustainable growth, optimize internal processes and deliver better consumer outcomes. Health systems, hospitals and medical clinics are under immense pressure to improve clinical outcomes and reduce the cost of providing patient care. Investing in new partnerships, clinical services and technology is not enough to create meaningful and substantive change. To succeed long-term, healthcare organizations must empower leaders, clinicians, employees, affiliates and communities to build cultures that foster innovation to achieve the best outcomes for patients. Joining the Huron team means you’ll help our clients evolve and adapt to the rapidly changing healthcare environment and optimize existing business operations, improve clinical outcomes, create a more consumer-centric healthcare experience, and drive physician, patient and employee engagement across the enterprise.

Join our team as the expert you are now and create your future. Managers play a vibrant, integral role at Huron. Their invaluable knowledge reflects in the projects they manage, and the teams they lead. As change leaders, our Managers build long-standing partnerships with clients, while collaborating with colleagues to solve our clients’ most pressing business challenges. Huron Managers shape and deliver results that seamlessly align with client goals, visions and missions. Remarkably versatile, our Managers also spend significant time mentoring junior staff on the engagement team—where they share expertise as well as feedback and encouragement. This benefits Huron profoundly as it promotes a culture of respect, unity, collaboration, and personal achievement. As a Manager, you will have the unique ability to specialize in certain areas that showcase and employ your areas of expertise while gaining exposure to a breadth of capabilities across our performance improvement practice. Huron is big enough to offer the opportunity and exposure you need for your career growth—but small enough to give you individual attention needed for professional development. Every colleague contributes to who we are as an organization—and the more you evolve, the more we do. Create your future at Huron.

REQUIRED SKILLS

• Lead initiatives to streamline procurement, inventory management, and distribution processes, ensuring cost-effective and timely delivery of medical supplies and equipment.
• Utilize data analytics to identify trends, forecast demand, and drive continuous improvement in supply chain operations, enhancing overall efficiency and reducing costs.
• Effective and efficient organization and planning skills with the proven ability to manage complex multi-workstream performance improvement projects or multiple concurrent client engagements, while delegating and overseeing the work of junior team members
• Proven analytical and critical thinking skills required to synthesize complex data sets and interpret qualitative and quantitative data and trends to implement recommendations resulting in measurable performance improvement and successful organizational change
• Impactful and professional written and verbal communication skills; ability to set clear project team direction, develop key deliverables, elevate risks, and influence key stakeholders inclusive of client and internal senior leadership
• Ability to collaborate with team members and client counterparts to understand business challenges, adapt implementation methodologies and approaches to ensure results align with client’s business objectives
• Team leadership experience including building talent, training, supervising, coaching/mentoring, and providing feedback through performance management
• Employees are required to follow utilization set by practice and expectations and it is the employees' responsibility to manage this. Required to complete all assigned instructed courses and compliance trainings

CORE QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor's degree required
• The ability to travel based on client, enterprise, or project needs is an essential function of this role. While travel requirements may vary based on business need, the current average travel in the Healthcare practice is less than 50%, annually.
• Excellent communication skills – oral and written – and the interpersonal skills needed to quickly establish relationships of trust and collaboration
• The ability to train and participate in the professional development of Huron staff in both project management and technical dimensions
• Proficient in Microsoft office (Word, PowerPoint, Excel)
• Direct Supervisory Experience
• Preferred experience in a matrixed organization
• 6-8 years of consulting and/or healthcare operations experience
• Ability to be flexible in any cross capabilities industry segments
• US Work Authorization required

PREFERRED EXPERIENCE

• Relevant hospital operations experience directing a department and/or team-based projects with a focus on process re-engineering/performance improvement initiatives and change management, OR Project leadership and workplan management experience within a consulting firm setting with a focus on cost of care, workforce management, and/or supply chain services
• Specific experience in cost and expense management within administrative and corporate functions
• Expertise managing cost structures and improving operational workflows within post-acute settings (e.g., SNF, long-term care, home health, rehab) [not required]
• Seeking specific clinical leadership experience in multiple and varied care settings with a focus on care delivery optimization and redesign, talent strategy to include workforce planning, and promoting innovative digital strategies to improve care.

Additional Job Description

The estimated base salary range for this job is $145,000 - $185,000. The range represents a good faith estimate of the range that Huron reasonably expects to pay for this job at the time of the job posting. The actual salary paid to an individual will vary based on multiple factors, including but not limited to specific skills or certifications, years of experience, market changes, and required travel.

This job is also eligible to participate in Huron’s annual incentive compensation program, which reflects Huron’s pay for performance philosophy.

Inclusive of annual incentive compensation opportunity, the total estimated compensation range for this job is $166,750 - $231,250.

The job is also eligible to participate in Huron’s benefit plans which include medical, dental and vision coverage and other wellness programs.

The salary range information provided is in accordance with applicable state and local laws regarding salary transparency that are currently in effect and may be implemented in the future.

Position Level Manager Country United States of America

At Huron, we’re redefining what a consulting organization can be. We go beyond advice to deliver results that last. We inherit our client’s challenges as if they were our own. We help them transform for the future. We advocate. We make a difference. And we intelligently, passionately, relentlessly do great work…together.

Are you the kind of person who stands ready to jump in, roll up your sleeves and transform ideas into action? Then come discover Huron. Whether you have years of experience or come right out of college, we invite you to explore our many opportunities. Find out how you can use your talents and develop your skills to make an impact immediately. Learn about how our culture and values provide you with the kind of environment that invites new ideas and innovation. Come see how we collaborate with each other in a culture of learning, coaching, diversity and inclusion. And hear about our unwavering commitment to make a difference in partnership with our clients, shareholders, communities and colleagues.

Huron Consulting Group offers a competitive compensation and benefits package including medical, dental, and vision coverage to employees and dependents; a 401(k) plan with a generous employer match; an employee stock purchase plan; a generous Paid Time Off policy; and paid parental leave and adoption assistance. Huron’s Wellness Program supports employee total well-being by providing free annual health screenings and coaching, bank at work, and on-site workshops, as well as ongoing programs recognizing major events in the lives of our employees throughout the year. All benefits and programs are subject to applicable eligibility requirements.

Huron is fully committed to providing equal employment opportunity to job applicants and employees in recruitment, hiring, employment, compensation, benefits, promotions, transfers, training, and all other terms and conditions of employment. Huron will not discriminate on the basis of age, race, color, gender, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, pregnancy, national origin, religion, veteran status, physical or mental disability, genetic information, creed, citizenship or any other status protected by laws or regulations in the locations where we do business. We endeavor to maintain a drug-free workplace.