Senior Consultant | High Performance Operating Model

Gundersen Health System; United States; Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Comprehensive benefits

Professional development opportunities

Job summary

Gundersen Health System is seeking a Senior Consultant, High Performance Operating Model (HPOM) to lead enterprise design and governance across the organization. This role partners with executive leaders to strengthen alignment, improve execution discipline, and drive strategic priorities.

The position requires 7+ years in strategy execution or related fields, strong project management, and exceptional communication and relationship-building abilities.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Organizational Design, Healthcare Administration, Organizational Development, or related field is required.
• Seven or more years of experience in strategy execution, organizational effectiveness, operations leadership, performance improvement, project management, consulting, or related disciplines.
• Demonstrated ability to lead complex, enterprise-wide initiatives involving multiple stakeholders.
• Experience facilitating executive-level meetings, workshops, and strategic planning sessions.

Responsibilities

• Design, integration, governance of HPOM across the enterprise.
• Lead matrix leadership to align priorities, owners, and teams.
• Drive execution excellence with governance forums and practical standards.
• Realize outcomes with measurement, adoption, and continuous improvement.
• Facilitate executive and cross-functional workshops to achieve alignment.

Skills

Project management

Relationship building

Communication

Influence

Strategic thinking

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration/Healthcare Admin

Master’s degree preferred

Job description

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Scheduled Weekly Hours: 40 Senior Consultant | High Performance Operating Model Reports to: President of Emplify Health Location: Hybrid, with occasional on-site presence required

The Senior Consultant, High Performance Operating Model (HPOM), serves as an enterprise leader and steward for Emplify Health’s HPOM. This role helps ensure the operating model, governance, workflows, and tools work together as one integrated system from idea generation through measurable results. The ideal candidate is highly organized, process-focused, and able to see the big picture while identifying gaps, building structure, and driving continuous improvement across a complex, matrixed organization. This role requires strong project and program management skills, strategic thinking, and the ability to build trusted relationships across leaders, teams, and functions. The Senior Consultant will partner with executive leaders, operational leaders, performance teams, and other stakeholders to strengthen alignment, improve execution discipline, and support enterprise priorities.

What the HPOM is The High Performance Operating Model is the blueprint for how Emplify Health delivers value to patients and customers and how the organization runs itself while staying focused on an engaged culture. The HPOM ensures people, process, and technology work together effectively so the organization can deliver on its mission, vision, values, and goals. The HPOM includes three sections: Strategic Planning Execution Model Outcomes Essential Job Duties / Major Responsibilities

HPOM Design, Integration, and Governance

• Serve as the enterprise steward for the High Performance Operating Model, ensuring its components, governance, workflows, and tools operate as an integrated system aligned from idea generation through measurable results.
• Evaluate HPOM effectiveness and strengthen governance by addressing gaps and redundancies and clarifying decision-making, ownership, accountability, and enterprise priorities.

Matrix Leadership and Relationship Building

• Navigate the complexity of a highly matrixed organization by connecting multiple HPOM components, owners, leaders, and teams; clarifying interdependencies; and building alignment around shared priorities and outcomes.
• Build trusted relationships across functions and levels, using influence, collaboration, and organizational awareness to bridge perspectives, resolve competing priorities, and enable coordinated action.

Execution Excellence

• Partner with Performance Teams, operational leaders, and project owners to strengthen accountability, execution discipline, and alignment with organizational priorities.
• Facilitate governance forums and develop practical standards, frameworks, and tools that enable timely decisions, resolve barriers, and improve initiative delivery and organizational performance.

Outcome Realization and Continuous Improvement

• Embed outcome measurement and value realization into HPOM processes, using leading and lagging indicators to assess performance, adoption, and effectiveness.
• Recommend improvements to teams, structures, processes, and tools that advance continuous improvement, organizational performance, and impact.

Facilitation and Change Leadership

• Facilitate executive, operational, and cross-functional workshops, planning sessions, governance meetings, and decision forums that produce alignment and actionable outcomes.
• Advise and influence leaders and stakeholders to build understanding, adoption, and sustained implementation of HPOM principles, practices, and operating model changes.

Education, Tools, and Capability Building

• Develop and maintain playbooks, procedures, templates, training, communications, and other resources that promote consistent HPOM understanding and application.
• Serve as a subject matter expert, coaching and advising leaders and teams on HPOM processes, governance, operating models, organizational effectiveness, continuous improvement, and strategic execution.

Success Measures

• Increased organizational adoption and understanding of the HPOM
• Improved alignment between strategic planning, execution, and outcomes
• Effective governance and decision-making processes across the enterprise
• Strong facilitation resulting in timely decisions and execution progress
• Continuous improvements to HPOM processes, tools, and structures
• Enhanced organizational capability for execution, accountability, and continuous improvement

Minimum Qualifications

• Education Required: Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Organizational Design, Healthcare Administration, Organizational Development, or related field
• Desired: Master’s degree in Business Administration, Healthcare Administration, Organizational Development, or related field
• Certification / Registration / Licensure Desired: Certification in Lean, Six Sigma, Change Management, Project Management, or Organizational Development
• Experience Required: Seven or more years of experience in strategy execution, organizational effectiveness, operations leadership, performance improvement, project management, consulting, or related disciplines
• Demonstrated ability to lead complex, enterprise-wide initiatives involving multiple stakeholders
• Experience facilitating executive-level meetings, workshops, and strategic planning sessions
• Strong project and program management skills
• Exceptional communication, relationship-building, and influencing abilities
• Ability to navigate ambiguity and drive alignment across diverse stakeholder groups
• Desired: Experience designing or implementing operating models, governance frameworks, or strategic execution systems
• Healthcare industry experience in a complex health system environment

What We’re Looking For

We’re looking for someone who can bring structure to complexity, connect the dots across the enterprise, and help evolve HPOM as the organization grows. This person should be able to identify where processes are outdated or no longer effective, build better ways of working, and partner closely with leaders across strategy, operations, finance, performance, and execution teams. Ready to help shape how Emplify Health executes strategy, drives alignment, and delivers results? bring your expertise in operating models, organizational effectiveness, and enterprise execution to a role with real impact.

Work Arrangement

This position is eligible for remote work. Remote work is available in select roles and must be approved in accordance with Emplify Health policy. All employees participating in Remote Workforce or Hybrid Work Model programs are expected to comply with applicable organizational policies and maintain a positive, productive work environment. If you need assistance with any portion of the application or have questions about the position, please contact [e-mail] or call 608-775-0267.

We inspire your best life by relentlessly caring, learning and innovating. This is our purpose. Together with our values - belonging, respect, excellence, accountability, teamwork and humility - our pillars set our foundation and our future. Equal Opportunity Employer Around here, loving your job is part of the job. Join our mission in changing healthcare while finding a career you'll love! Gundersen Health System offers a proud, local history spanning more than 100 years. Our personalized patient care model is only the beginning of what you will experience as we foster population health transformation and innovation to serve our communities and you. We've made it a priority to enrich the lives of our employees as they find a career they love. Using each employee’s unique talents and passions, Gundersen is committed to delivering exceptional patient and family-centered care to the communities we serve. You can be part of an exciting, highly adaptable and mission-driven organization with a work environment that supports you personally and professionally and a work culture where you are valued and appreciated offering an employee-first culture, work-life balance, and career advancement & growth opportunities. This culture allows our organization to attract elite talent, like yourself!

What You Can Expect:

• Empowerment to shape your work environment, encouragement to improve processes and create efficiencies, and support when seeking opportunities for growth
• Culture that encourages self-care and provides you with opportunities to be your best self at work and at home
• Competitive compensation and comprehensive benefits packages, as applicable, ensuring your comfort and well-being as a valuable team member
• Support for your career growth through Professional Development Opportunities, our Tuition Investment Program, Career Development Center, and online continuing education courses

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Gundersen Health System, based in La Crosse, WI, is the leading provider of primary and specialized care in western Wisconsin, southeast Minnesota, and northeast Iowa; serving more than 500,000 residents throughout 22 counties. Our physician-led, not-for-profit healthcare system includes a 325-bed teaching hospital, tertiary referral center, and Level II Trauma Center; community clinics; 6 affiliate critical access hospitals; nursing homes; behavioral health services; vision centers; pharmacies; and air and ground ambulance services. Together, we inspire your best life by relentlessly caring, learning, and innovating. We deliver Love + Medicine every day to change lives in our communities and enrich the lives of our employees. Gundersen Health System, based in La Crosse, WI, is the leading provider of primary and specialized care in western Wisconsin, southeast Minnesota, and northeast Iowa; serving more than 500,000 residents throughout 22 counties. Our physician-led, not-for-profit healthcare system includes a 325-bed teaching hospital, tertiary referral center, and Level II Trauma Center; community clinics; 6 affiliate critical access hospitals; nursing homes; behavioral health services; vision centers; pharmacies; and air and ground ambulance services. Together, we inspire your best life by relentlessly caring, learning, and innovating. We deliver Love + Medicine every day to change lives in our communities and enrich the lives of our employees.