Strategy& Health Services - Payor Sector, Strategy Consulting Manager

PwC; Palo Alto (CA); On-site; USD 99,000 - 232,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual discretionary bonus

Benefits package

Job summary

PwC in the United States is seeking a corporate and business strategy consultant to analyse client needs, provide consulting across strategic areas, and help develop and implement effective strategies aligned with business objectives.

You will lead teams, mentor colleagues, and drive growth while upholding PwC's values and standards. Embrace technology to enhance delivery and foster innovation across engagements.

Qualifications

• Bachelor Degree required.
• 5 years experience required.
• MBA preferred.
• Experience in professional services or corporate strategy a plus.

Responsibilities

• Analyse client needs and provide consulting across strategic areas.
• Lead and deliver client engagements with integrity and authenticity.
• Coach and develop team members; manage performance and timelines.
• Identify opportunities to drive growth and improve client outcomes.

Skills

Leadership

Strategic thinking

Client relations

Mentoring

Market research

Team leadership

Conflict resolution

Standards and ethics

Education

Bachelor Degree

Master of Business Administration

Job description

At PwC, our people in strategy consulting focus on providing strategic guidance and insights to organisations. They analyse market trends, assess business performance, and develop recommendations to help clients achieve their goals. These individuals work closely with clients to identify opportunities for growth, optimise operations, and enhance overall business performance.

As a corporate and business strategy consultant at PwC, you will analyse client needs, provide consulting services across different strategic areas, and offer guidance and support to help clients develop and implement effective strategies that align with their business objectives and drive growth.

Enhancing your leadership style, you motivate, develop and inspire others to deliver quality. You are responsible for coaching, leveraging team member’s unique strengths, and managing performance to deliver on client expectations. With your growing knowledge of how business works, you play an important role in identifying opportunities that contribute to the success of our Firm. You are expected to lead with integrity and authenticity, articulating our purpose and values in a meaningful way. You embrace technology and innovation to enhance your delivery and encourage others to do the same.

Skills

Examples of the skills, knowledge, and experiences you need to lead and deliver value at this level include but are not limited to:

• Analyse and identify the linkages and interactions between the component parts of an entire system.
• Take ownership of projects, ensuring their successful planning, budgeting, execution, and completion.
• Partner with team leadership to ensure collective ownership of quality, timelines, and deliverables.
• Develop skills outside your comfort zone, and encourage others to do the same.
• Effectively mentor others.
• Use the review of work as an opportunity to deepen the expertise of team members.
• Address conflicts or issues, engaging in difficult conversations with clients, team members and other stakeholders, escalating where appropriate.
• Uphold and reinforce professional and technical standards (e.g. refer to specific PwC tax and audit guidance), the Firm's code of conduct, and independence requirements.

Minimum Degree Required

Bachelor Degree

Minimum Years Experience Required

5 years(s) experience

Preferred Qualifications

Degree Preferred:

Master of Business Administration

Preferred Knowledge/Skills

Demonstrates extensive knowledge of and/or success in professional services or corporate roles, helping companies define and evaluate corporate and business unit strategies and investment portfolios, reflecting market, competitive and other external drivers.

Demonstrates extensive leadership, strategic and creative thinking, problem solving, individual initiative, and the following abilities:

• Building productive and collaborative relationships with team members and proactively providing and seeking guidance, clarification and feedback;
• Managing a team to a successful project conclusion through problem solving global, enterprise-wide strategy issues;
• Building, maintaining, and utilizing networks of client relationships;
• Communicating cogently in an organized and knowledgeable manner in written and verbal formats; and,
• Conducting and managing market research and quantitative and qualitative analyses, including the timely synthesis of complex data into meaningful insights and the ability to readily grasp analytical frameworks and employ them effectively to either qualitative or quantitative evidence.

Demonstrates extensive-level abilities as a team leader, emphasizing the following areas:

• Possessing working experience in Payor operations (domain areas such as Medical Management, Population Health Management, Utilization Management, Provider Network Management, Value-Based Contracting, Provider Relations, Quality Improvement, Informatics, ACO operations, etc.) to help payors and providers manage their medical costs, quality, and experience;
• Possessing working experience in Clinical Analytics, Medical Economics, and/or Population Health Analytics or working in collaboration with related functions;
• Possessing working experience with Population Health Management technologies and approaches (e.g., high-risk user stratification tools, cost/quality/utilization trend analysis, provider performance tools);
• Possessing working knowledge and experience in software development, implementation, and optimization to accurately translate clinical and business requirements into engineering design documents and instructions;
• Possessing experience in project management and product development life cycle management specifically in healthcare product design and development to support care management and delivery workflows;
• Possessing understanding of global trends for health organizations utilizing pragmatic approaches to achieve sustainable financial functions, consumer experience, and operating models;
• Possessing experience managing and advising healthcare executive leadership or has direct experience from former position; and,
• Understanding Medicare Stars performance across different markets and helping to develop strategies and programs to match those needs.

The salary range for this position is: $99,000 - $232,000. Actual compensation within the range will be dependent upon the individual's skills, experience, qualifications and location, and applicable employment laws. All hired individuals are eligible for an annual discretionary bonus. PwC offers a wide range of benefits, including medical, dental, vision, 401k, holiday pay, vacation, personal and family sick leave, and more. To view our benefits at a glance, please visit the following link: https://pwc.to/benefits-at-a-glance

As PwC is anequal opportunity employer, all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment at PwC without regard to race; color; religion; national origin; sex (including pregnancy, sexual orientation, and gender identity); age; disability; genetic information (including family medical history); veteran, marital, or citizenship status; or, any other status protected by law.

PwC does not intend to hire experienced or entry level job seekers who will need, now or in the future, PwC sponsorship through the H-1B lottery, except as set forth within the following policy: https://pwc.to/H-1B-Lottery-Policy.

Learn more about how we work: https://pwc.to/how-we-work

For only those qualified applicants that are impacted by the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, the Los Angeles' Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, San Diego County Fair Chance Ordinance, and the California Fair Chance Act, where applicable, arrest or conviction records will be considered for Employment in accordance with these laws. At PwC, we recognize that conviction records may have a direct, adverse, and negative relationship to responsibilities such as accessing sensitive company or customer information, handling proprietary assets, or collaborating closely with team members. We evaluate these factors thoughtfully to establish a secure and trusted workplace for all.