Surgical Services Consulting Director: PPI & Performance

Vizient, Inc.; Irving (TX); On-site; USD 118,000 - 206,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Incentive eligible

Job summary

Vizient, Inc. is seeking a senior consulting leader to drive complex Surgical Services and Physician Preference Items engagements. You will guide discovery through implementation, synthesize data, develop evidence-based strategies, and present actionable recommendations to C-suite stakeholders.

You will design implementation roadmaps, manage multi-disciplinary teams, and mentor junior consultants while delivering measurable clinical, operational, and financial results for health systems.

Qualifications

• Relevant degree preferred. Clinical degree preferred.
• 7+ years of relevant experience required.
• Service line management experience in surgical services or perioperative departments required.
• Advanced proficiency in Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and AI-enabled productivity tools required.
• Proven ability to analyze financial, operational, and quality data and translate findings into actionable performance improvement strategies.
• Strong consulting, structured problem-solving, project leadership, and change management skills.
• Exceptional verbal, written, presentation, and facilitation skills with the ability to influence senior and executive-level clients.
• Ability to travel regularly and expeditiously throughout the year to meet clients' needs and timetables.

Responsibilities

• Lead complex Surgical Services and PPI consulting engagements from discovery through implementation, including scope definition, stakeholder alignment, analytic review, recommendation development, and value realization.
• Conduct structured discovery, stakeholder interviews, and current-state assessments to clarify business challenges, identify performance gaps, validate root causes, and define improvement opportunities.
• Plan and oversee analytic work that integrates clinical, operational, financial, and supply chain data to generate strategic insights, quantify opportunities, and support actionable recommendations.
• Develop evidence-based strategies and business cases that improve cost efficiency, reduce clinical variation, strengthen operational performance, and advance patient care quality.
• Design client-specific implementation roadmaps, governance structures, change management approaches, and adoption strategies that support sustainable performance improvement.
• Manage complex consulting workplans, priorities, timelines, budgets, resources, risks, dependencies, and deliverables to achieve expected client value.
• Facilitate executive-level and cross-functional working sessions that align clinical, operational, financial, and supply chain leaders around priorities, trade-offs, decisions, and implementation actions.
• Serve as a trusted advisor to senior and C-suite client leaders by synthesizing complex information, framing strategic options and implications, influencing decisions, and recommending paths forward.
• Build and maintain trusted senior-level client relationships to understand strategic priorities, shape engagement direction, and strengthen commitment to recommended actions.
• Establish success measures, monitor progress against expected outcomes, and communicate performance improvement and value realization throughout the engagement lifecycle.
• Guide sustainable implementation and adoption of Vizient tools, technologies, analytics, and supporting resources in collaboration with client teams.
• Mentor less experienced consultants on data analysis, interpretation, storytelling, consulting methodologies, client facilitation, and application of advanced techniques and best practices.
• Advance consulting practice capabilities by improving products, services, tools, and methodologies; developing and applying reusable intellectual capital and case studies; contributing thought leadership; and collaborating with Spend Management and cross-functional teams to strengthen consulting offerings.

Skills

Excel

Word

PowerPoint

AI-enabled productivity tools

Education

Relevant degree

Clinical degree

Job description

Vizient, Inc. is seeking a senior consulting leader to drive complex Surgical Services and Physician Preference Items engagements. You will guide discovery through implementation, synthesize data, develop evidence-based strategies, and present actionable recommendations to C-suite stakeholders.

You will design implementation roadmaps, manage multi-disciplinary teams, and mentor junior consultants while delivering measurable clinical, operational, and financial results for health systems.