Population Health Consultant

Lockton Companies; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A major insurance brokerage based in Chicago seeks an experienced professional to manage health risk strategies for their diverse clients. This role requires a bachelor's degree and at least 7-10 years in benefits or population health. Responsibilities include data analysis, developing strategies, and collaborating with client teams. Strong communication skills and advanced knowledge of Excel and PowerPoint are essential. The company values diversity and inclusion in its workplace.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 7-10 years of demonstrated experience in benefits and/or population health.
• Demonstrated ability to communicate effectively with team and management.
• Experience in resolving critical project issues.

Responsibilities

• Lead development of health risk management strategies for clients.
• Provide ongoing strategic direction during vendor selection.
• Collect and analyze clients’ health data to identify improvement areas.

Skills

Verbal and written communication skills

Ability to manage projects

Knowledge of HR and Benefits procedures

Advanced Microsoft Excel

Client relationship management

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Tools

Microsoft Excel

PowerPoint

Microsoft Teams

Job description

Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Secondary locations

Memphis, Nashville, Milwaukee, St. Louis, Cleveland

SUMMARY

Provide the highest level of customer satisfaction while supporting a diverse book of business. Assist in all initiatives for the development of long‑term, customized population health strategies for employer clients through analysis of a client’s demographics, health culture, health claims, prevalent disease states and other factors impacting the client’s health care costs.

DUTIES

• Collects and reviews clients’ qualitative and quantitative indicators of current and potential health risk including demographics, medical and pharmacy claims data to identify opportunities to improve the health risk of the population and develops presentations to share findings with clients.
• Leads the development of strategy around health risk management including clients with additional complexities.
• Highly collaborative with Lockton account teams, Producers and specialty practices, to ensure that opportunities identified align with the client’s business and HR objectives.
• Possesses a broad understanding of the brokerage/consulting business and the need to be “client‑driven”.
• Delivers RFPs, presentations, correspondence, etc., with no direct supervision. Effectively communicates with clients, knowing when to provide only key data points and when to add additional detail. Ability to adapt presentation style to meet the needs of the audience(s).
• Overcomes obstacles by proactively identifying potential challenges, addressing problems quickly, energetically and creatively, when necessary.
• Provides ongoing strategic direction to clients and account teams during vendor selection or implementation projects.
• Maintain a broad knowledge base of vendors capabilities and programs that support the health risk management spectrum.
• Knowledgeable and up to date on compliance regulations that impacting health risk management programs, including the appropriate and legal approaches to employee incentive programs.
• Seeks ways to improve work processes; uses good judgement to balance creativity with need to get work done.
• Solicits assistance, as needed, from Population Health Strategies Director and Unit/Team Leader as well as other HRS associates to best address client and project needs.
• Coaching, training, and development of AAM, AA and other associates, as needed.

Compensation and Benefits

Lockton Companies LLC is committed to offering competitive pay and benefits and complies with all relevant state/local pay transparency laws. The entry base salary offered for this opportunity may vary, and is contingent upon candidate education, skills, abilities, essential competencies, experience, professional designations, unique qualifications, and geographic location.

Performance Bonus: This role may be eligible for an annual performance bonus, based upon the financial performance of the organization and the individual contributions of the Associate.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree required. Industry knowledge preferred.
• Minimum of 7‑10 years of demonstrated experience in benefits and/or PHS.
• Demonstrated ability to communicate goals and objectives, status and deliverables with team members, and management, including senior executives as needed.
• Professional experience and knowledge of HR and/or Benefits procedures, business protocol and practices, web‑based software applications, and systems integration.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills, including ability to clearly document processes.
• Understands when circumstances require persuasion, conciliation, assertiveness, or other approach and reacts appropriately.
• Ability to express complex technical concepts effectively, both verbally and written.
• Ability to resolve critical project issues and find amiable solutions for all parties, protecting client’s interests and timelines. Strong time management, initiative and interpersonal skills necessary.
• Advanced user of Microsoft Excel. Strong experience PowerPoint, word and Microsoft Teams.
• Ability and willingness to travel for client meetings as needed (projected travel <20%).

Equal Opportunity Statement

Lockton Companies is proud to provide everyone an equal opportunity to grow and advance. We are committed to an inclusive culture and environment where our people, clients and communities are treated with respect and dignity. At Lockton, supporting diversity, equity and inclusion is ingrained in our values, and we believe that we are at our best when we fully embrace everyone.