Healthcare Consulting Manager - Supply Chain

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

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision coverage

Annual incentive compensation

Job summary

Huron is seeking a Manager in Chicago to lead performance improvement initiatives in the healthcare sector. The role involves streamlining procurement processes and utilizing data analytics to enhance operational efficiency.

Ideal candidates will have a Bachelor's degree, strong analytical skills, and 6-8 years of experience in consulting or healthcare operations. The compensation ranges from $145,000 to $185,000 based on experience.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required.
• Excellent communication skills—oral and written.
• 6-8 years of consulting and/or healthcare operations experience.

Responsibilities

• Lead procurement and distribution process improvements.
• Utilise data analytics to enhance efficiency.
• Manage complex performance improvement projects.

Skills

Leadership in procurement and inventory

Data analytics for supply chain

Project management

Analytical and critical thinking

Collaboration with clients

Communication skills

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, optimise 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 optimise 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 specialise 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.
• Utilise data analytics to identify trends, forecast demand, and drive continuous improvement in supply chain operations, enhancing overall efficiency and reducing costs.
• Effective and efficient organisation 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 organisational change. Impactful and professional written and verbal communication skills; ability to set clear project team direction, develop key deliverables, escape 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 utilisation 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 organisation. 6‑8 years of consulting and/or healthcare operations experience.
• Ability to be flexible in any cross capabilities industry segments.
• US Work Authorisation 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 optimisation 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 programme, 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