Physician Enterprise Consultant

Summary

The job is for a consultant role in Kaufman Hall's Physician Enterprise practice. Responsibilities include developing hypotheses, designing analyses, and creating work products to drive client decision-making. The ideal candidate has progressive experience in healthcare consulting, strong quantitative skills, excellent people management and communication skills, and proficiency with Microsoft Office.

Requirements

• An understanding of key healthcare trends, information sources, strategic planning, and finance
• Excellent quantitative and analytical skills
• Ability to apply analytical frameworks to support key questions facing our clients including assessment of organizational positioning across key dimensions such as quality, cost, access, and competitive positions
• A self-starter who can work well independently. Possesses a high level of self-confidence and an entrepreneurial spirit
• Strong people management and client relationship skills
• An engaged individual who has excellent interpersonal, oral, and written communication skills; able to present effectively to senior management/boards, both digitally and in person
• Possesses a high degree of integrity and strong moral and ethical standards. A straight shooter who is honest, upfront, and professionally mature
• A true team player who is collaborative, flexible, and able to handle ambiguity
• Demonstrable project management experience in a fast-paced environment including the ability to manage a diverse set of 4-6 simultaneous engagements including strategy, governance, and operations
• Proficiency with Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint
• Applicants for employment must have work authorization that does not now or in the future require sponsorship of a visa for employment authorization in the United States and with Kaufman Hall (i.e., H1-B visa, F-1 visa (OPT), TN visa or any other non-immigrant status)

Responsibilities

• Develop the key hypothesis, design supporting analyses, and complete analytical work product used to drive the client’s decision making
• Attend on-site meetings with health system/medical groups and system-level senior management and Board members as appropriate
• Help create and apply industry-leading solutions to the most challenging strategic and organizational issues facing our clients
• Develop analytical fact-based research, thought leadership and best practices to support strategic decisions in a client-ready format
• Collect and analyze data to ensure analytical findings fully and accurately identify opportunities
• Provide excellent project management to ensure successful outcomes from both Kaufman Hall and our clients’ perspectives
• Conduct interviews with physician and medical group leaders, and health system’s administration, managing, validating, and organizing data collected both from clients, as well as third party vendors
• Keep Managers apprised of projects to ensure critical milestones are met, timelines are adhered to, and changes are properly communicated
• Build presentations and completed work product to be presented to clients and Board members
• Develop a quantitative and qualitative foundation to help client leadership make informed decisions relative to their physician enterprise
• Enable long term sustainability of owned and affiliated physician relationships and performance which includes physician staffing, operations, revenue cycle, and facilities
• Create action plans that define the detailed initiatives necessary to address key opportunities/issues within the physician enterprise, including timing, sequencing, and implementation responsibilities
• Develop physician compensation programs that achieve a delicate balance between productivity and value-based incentives while recognizing organizational culture and financial viability

Preferred Qualifications

• Previous consulting experience within physician enterprise
• MBA or advanced degree in Healthcare-related field

Benefits

• Travel Required: 50% or more
• When not traveling to a client site, the role is remotely based (home office)