Remote Health Strategy Consulting Leader

Summary

Join Blue Cottage of CannonDesign as Health Strategy Consulting Leader. This role requires a client leader to partner with consulting teams and design teams to source, pre-position, pursue, and deliver projects that plan for the future of health in healthcare and social service organizations.

Requirements

• 15 years of experience in consulting, operations, or leadership applied in the health strategy, operations, or innovation (start-up) setting, preferably in a mix of hospital and consulting settings
• Master's or advanced degree required
• Experience and demonstrated knowledge of strategy, innovation, software development and launch in healthcare-related space
• Ability to manage the political nature of high investment projects, especially complex strategic planning
• Executive presence and demonstrated business acumen
• Acumen and ability to contribute to financial feasibility studies for strategic planning implementation cost and resource estimation
• Business Development experience and proven ability to leverage wide professional network of individuals that will help communicate our value and grow our brand and revenue
• Ability to manage a team and understanding of the business model of consulting including consulting workplans, strategic pursuits, management of consulting P/L, understanding of project margin optimization, quality control of deliverables, etc
• Commitment to exceptional work in every single interaction, every single day

Responsibilities

• Build a portfolio of robust and successful consulting engagements by Identifying & sourcing strategic consulting opportunities that leverage Blue Cottage and CannonDesign services in the health strategy and innovation industry space
• Identify, establish and nurture meaningful, long-term relationships with clients and internal partners through excellence, integrity, and reliability and in a way that grows the consulting practice and elevates the brand, while making measurable, living-centered impact
• Develop service capabilities and tools that provide long term recurring value to our practice and our clients, leveraging research and evidence-driven solutions
• Provide oversight and lead high-performing teams from pre-positioning to pursuit to close, across Blue Cottage pillars including strategy, planning, complex program management, and digital innovation
• Develop and implement health market initiatives and client development strategies, in collaboration with Blue Cottage pillar leads and CannonDesign health practice leaders
• Serve as a liaison and represent Blue Cottage in planning meetings, leadership meetings, and collaborative efforts. Work to create new methods for collaboration and integration, project tools and processes (specifically toward improvement of communication and coordination between consulting and design teams)
• Collaborate with clients to understand their needs, the issues they face, and partner with Blue Cottage and CannonDesign leaders to expand services within the health market
• Build on our living-centered design mindset and capabilities as a firm, allowing our approach to problem solving to be deeply embedded in human-centered strategies that reflect community impact, social impact, operational needs and financial parameters
• Manage consulting teams, reviewing project performance, team member utilization, tracking project budget, and coaching team members along the way based on project performance metrics and opportunities identified
• Create work plans including project staffing (i.e. aligning the right talent with the right task / activities / opportunity), project approach, fee optimization, and resource requests. Lead and engage in the entire pursuit continuum
• Lead and/or support planning for both small and large-scale projects across various multi-year and multi-phased efforts
• Capitalize upon your existing network and our client base and experience and expand the business potential and profile (brand) of the firm by pre-positioning Blue Cottage for opportunities. Sourcing new work and winning new engagements is a key success factor for this role
• Build and share your subject matter expertise through industry networking, thought leadership, and engagement leadership, balanced with leading and delivering project work
• Provide direction and leadership on pursuits and proposal development, including the scoping of the potential opportunities, team design, approach development, and overarching proposal execution and oversight
• Develop bespoke solutions to ambiguous and complex problems. Some of these may include technology solutions, development of software as a solution or service, and creation of highly technical road maps for premier healthcare organizations

Benefits

• Health insurance
• Retirement benefits
• Paid time off
• Remote work, flexible hours
• Life and disability insurance
• Bonuses and incentives
• Professional development opportunities
• Wellness programs