Healthcare Consulting Senior Director - Intelligent Care
Huron Consulting Group Inc., Chicago, Illinois, United States, 60290
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 the Healthcare Consulting Senior Director - Intelligent Care, you will:** Stay abreast of emerging technologies and market trends in intelligent care, advising clients on scalable innovations that enhance safety, quality, and clinician experience. Quantify the financial investment and return on investment (ROI) of intelligent care initiatives by modeling costs, benefits, and operational impact across areas such as labor optimization, length of stay reduction, avoided capital spend, and care team efficiency Apply analytical and critical thinking skills to quantify benefits, identify risks, and develop solutions for performance improvement initiatives, while communicating effectively to understand client challenges, create customized solutions, and manage expectations.**Requirements:** Minimum of 10 years of relevant experience, including at least 5 years of progressive healthcare management consulting experience. A combination of consulting and senior leadership roles within provider organizations may be considered, but strong healthcare consulting experience is essential. Experience should include:Extensive healthcare operations experience directing a large hospital department and / or team-based projects with a focus on process engineering / performance improvement initiatives and broad-based change management optimizationHands on familiarity with hospital command center operations, care coordination models, or centralized operational oversight structures. Demonstrated ability to bridge clinical workflows with digital enablement, ensuring operational, clinical, and technical alignment.
Experience working with EHR systems, interoperability standards, and vendor ecosystems to support integrated clinical operations. Strong technical and analytical fluency, including systems thinking, event drivenability to manage complex healthcare consulting engagements, balancing client relationship management, delivery oversight, and strategic support for growth initiatives across provider and payer organizations.
workflow design, and the ability to translate regulatory or workflow requirements into actionable operational solutions. Proven Ability to operate effectively in complex, matrixed healthcare environments, navigating ambiguity and aligning multiple stakeholder groups across clinical, digital, and operational domains. 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. Proficiency in Microsoft Office (Word, PowerPoint, Excel)At Huron, we’re redefining what a consulting organization can be. We go beyond advice to deliver results that last. We inherit our client’s challenges as if they were our own. We help them transform for the future. We advocate. We make a difference. And we intelligently, passionately, relentlessly do great work…together.
Whether you have years of experience or come right out of college, we invite you to explore our many opportunities. Find out how you can use your talents and develop your skills to make an impact immediately. Learn about how our culture and values provide you with the kind of environment that invites new ideas and innovation. Come see how we collaborate with each other in a culture of learning, coaching, diversity and inclusion. And hear about our unwavering commitment to make a difference in partnership with our clients, shareholders, communities and colleagues.
Huron Consulting Group offers a competitive compensation and benefits package including medical, dental, and vision coverage to employees and dependents; a 401(k) plan with a generous employer match; an employee stock purchase plan; a generous Paid Time Off policy; and paid parental leave and adoption assistance. Our Wellness Program supports employee total well-being by providing free annual health screenings and coaching, bank at work, and on-site workshops, as well as ongoing programs recognizing major events in the lives of our employees throughout the year. All benefits and programs are subject to applicable eligibility requirements.
Huron is fully committed to providing equal employment opportunity to job applicants and employees in recruitment, hiring, employment, compensation, benefits, promotions, transfers, training, and all other terms and conditions of employment. Huron will not discriminate on the basis of age, race, color, gender, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, pregnancy, national origin, religion, veteran status, physical or mental disability, genetic information, creed, citizenship or any other status protected by laws or regulations in the locations where we do business. We endeavor to maintain a drug-free workplace. #J-18808-Ljbffr
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 the Healthcare Consulting Senior Director - Intelligent Care, you will:** Stay abreast of emerging technologies and market trends in intelligent care, advising clients on scalable innovations that enhance safety, quality, and clinician experience. Quantify the financial investment and return on investment (ROI) of intelligent care initiatives by modeling costs, benefits, and operational impact across areas such as labor optimization, length of stay reduction, avoided capital spend, and care team efficiency Apply analytical and critical thinking skills to quantify benefits, identify risks, and develop solutions for performance improvement initiatives, while communicating effectively to understand client challenges, create customized solutions, and manage expectations.**Requirements:** Minimum of 10 years of relevant experience, including at least 5 years of progressive healthcare management consulting experience. A combination of consulting and senior leadership roles within provider organizations may be considered, but strong healthcare consulting experience is essential. Experience should include:Extensive healthcare operations experience directing a large hospital department and / or team-based projects with a focus on process engineering / performance improvement initiatives and broad-based change management optimizationHands on familiarity with hospital command center operations, care coordination models, or centralized operational oversight structures. Demonstrated ability to bridge clinical workflows with digital enablement, ensuring operational, clinical, and technical alignment.
Experience working with EHR systems, interoperability standards, and vendor ecosystems to support integrated clinical operations. Strong technical and analytical fluency, including systems thinking, event drivenability to manage complex healthcare consulting engagements, balancing client relationship management, delivery oversight, and strategic support for growth initiatives across provider and payer organizations.
workflow design, and the ability to translate regulatory or workflow requirements into actionable operational solutions. Proven Ability to operate effectively in complex, matrixed healthcare environments, navigating ambiguity and aligning multiple stakeholder groups across clinical, digital, and operational domains. 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. Proficiency in Microsoft Office (Word, PowerPoint, Excel)At Huron, we’re redefining what a consulting organization can be. We go beyond advice to deliver results that last. We inherit our client’s challenges as if they were our own. We help them transform for the future. We advocate. We make a difference. And we intelligently, passionately, relentlessly do great work…together.
Whether you have years of experience or come right out of college, we invite you to explore our many opportunities. Find out how you can use your talents and develop your skills to make an impact immediately. Learn about how our culture and values provide you with the kind of environment that invites new ideas and innovation. Come see how we collaborate with each other in a culture of learning, coaching, diversity and inclusion. And hear about our unwavering commitment to make a difference in partnership with our clients, shareholders, communities and colleagues.
Huron Consulting Group offers a competitive compensation and benefits package including medical, dental, and vision coverage to employees and dependents; a 401(k) plan with a generous employer match; an employee stock purchase plan; a generous Paid Time Off policy; and paid parental leave and adoption assistance. Our Wellness Program supports employee total well-being by providing free annual health screenings and coaching, bank at work, and on-site workshops, as well as ongoing programs recognizing major events in the lives of our employees throughout the year. All benefits and programs are subject to applicable eligibility requirements.
Huron is fully committed to providing equal employment opportunity to job applicants and employees in recruitment, hiring, employment, compensation, benefits, promotions, transfers, training, and all other terms and conditions of employment. Huron will not discriminate on the basis of age, race, color, gender, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, pregnancy, national origin, religion, veteran status, physical or mental disability, genetic information, creed, citizenship or any other status protected by laws or regulations in the locations where we do business. We endeavor to maintain a drug-free workplace. #J-18808-Ljbffr