Consulting Associate, Healthcare - People Transformation Change Management

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, optimize 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 optimize 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.

As healthcare leaders balance emerging workforce trends and the need to evolve their organizational cultures, engaging and developing top talent has never been more complex. Huron works with you to align organizational goals and processes, creating a culture that attracts and retains the transformational leaders you need to drive sustainable results. Our experts help establish the processes, policies and learning and development programs that fuel high performance and empower staff to deliver an exceptional patient experience.

Associates play an indispensable role at Huron. Our dynamic Associates lead one or more project work streams utilizing Huron approaches, methodologies, and tools to implement impactful and innovative solutions to address our clients' business challenges. Skilled relationship builders, our Associates collaborate with client staff and leadership. Everyone works in symphony to achieve a common objective: create and implement sustainable solutions. Through our varied projects, Associates gain valuable, hands-on consulting and change management experience, while positively impacting mission-driven healthcare organizations.

Huron prides itself on being a firm big enough to boast a global footprint - yet not too big to hinder our entrepreneurial spirit. This allows everyone to make an impact and gives you access to a multitude of career paths both within and beyond your areas of expertise. Our focus on professional development is unmatched as you build critical leadership skills to grow your career and mentor junior Huron staff to do the same. We're dedicated to helping you reach your true potential!

REQUIRED SKILLS:

• Demonstrated ability to create and utilize workplans to effectively prioritize and manage multiple concurrent tasks with a high sense urgency across one or more workstreams; effective at delegating tasks to junior staff while managing the overall quality of project deliverables
• Proven critical thinking skills in both data collection and complex analysis; ability to identify data gaps and risks, develop sound conclusions, and create implementable and sustainable recommendations for improvement
• Professional and polished written and verbal communication skills; ability to effectively summarize information and present findings and recommendations to internal and client leadership; skilled at interactions with varying levels of client personal from staff to leadership
• Ability to apply proven methodologies and best practices to unique client situations; skilled at collaboration with project team members and client stakeholders to design and implement effective solutions to complex business problems
• Ability to conduct and facilitate small and large group training, virtually and in person
• Ability to observe and validate use of best practices and provide direct feedback to client leaders and staff
• Direct supervisory experience including coaching, mentorship, and performance management

CORE QUALIFICATIONS:

• Current permanent U.S. work authorization required
• Bachelor's degree required
• Proficient in Microsoft office (Word, PowerPoint, Excel)
• 3 to 5 years relevant project implementation or process improvement experience in a team
• 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. -based environment, preferably within healthcare or consulting

PREFERRED EXPERIENCE:

• Relevant healthcare operations or leadership experience on team-based projects with a focus on change management, training, and/or leadership development
• Project leadership and workplan management experience within a consulting firm setting with a focus on change management

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The estimated base salary range for this job is $100,000 - $130,000. 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 program, which reflects Huron's pay for performance philosophy. Inclusive of annual incentive compensation opportunity, the total estimated compensation range for this job is $112,000 - $153,400. 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

Associate

Country

United States of America