Consultant - Healthcare Strategy & Innovation

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Guidehouse is a global consultancy providing advisory, digital, and managed services to the commercial and public sectors. Guidehouse is purpose-built to serve the national security, financial services, healthcare, energy, and infrastructure industries. Recognized by Forbes as one of the Best Management Consulting Firms for 2024, Guidehouse is disrupting legacy consulting delivery models with its agility, capabilities, and scale, delivering technology-enabled and focused solutions that position clients for innovation, resilience, and growth. With high-quality standards and a relentless pursuit of client success, we at Guidehouse collaborate with leaders to outwit complexity and achieve transformational changes that meaningfully shape the future.

At Guidehouse, you will be part of a growing, talented, inclusive, high-performing community of strategy and healthcare leaders and teams that are focused on bringing competitive, collaborative, and resilient spirit to serving the nation’s healthcare organizations and communities. You will have the opportunity to inspire and be inspired by the change we affect in the industry, the lives we touch, and the impact we drive. You will have a voice and the chance learn, grow, elevate, and thrive in a global firm where values matter, ideas are heard, and aspirations achieved. You can expect that your learning and development matter through the investment Guidehouse makes in your personal and professional growth.

Strategy:

Strategy at Guidehouse works with C-suite executives, business leaders, and boards of directors of the nation’s leading commercial and public sector organizations. With a relentless focus on helping them ‘Outwit Complexity’ facing their industry, business, workforce, consumers, and communities, Strategy helps organizations drive profitable growth, reduce costs, elevate competitive positioning, transform into new performance frontiers, and achieve value-accretive, sustainable outcomes. Our Strategy service line focuses on cutting through the ambiguity, shaping the future, and architecting the transformational pathways for our clients to advance and prosper with resilience.

You are a High Performer. You are a Changemaker. You are Curious. You are Resilient. You are Data-Driven. You are Technology-Centric. You are Value-Obsessed. You are Future-Looking. You are the best of Strategy. As a high-impact, collaborative team player you bring consulting experience in Healthcare Payer/Provider Strategy.

As a Consultant, you are a team player, analytical thinker, and innovative solutionist all in one – delivering work and serving clients with analytical excellence, strategic dominance, structured-problem solving, and strong organization. Your experiences include (but not limited to) supporting the workstreams that directly influence the decisions of Payer/Provider clients to execute on strategic planning, business model strategy, operating model strategy / design, competitive agility, enterprise transformation, cost reductions / ZBx, M&A, service line strategy, product strategy, and innovation.

Primary Responsibilities:
 

Data Analysis and Insights Generation

• Collect, clean, and analyze datasets using advanced Excel, SQL, and business intelligence tools
• Conduct research, competitive analysis, and financial modeling to support project objectives
• Identify key trends, patterns, and insights from data to decisions and project deliverables
• Create clear and compelling data visualizations to communicate findings effectively

Project Support and Execution

• Ensure project success by adherence to project plans, timelines, and deliverables under the guidance of project managers
• Execute assigned workstreams and tasks within larger consulting engagements
• Apply strategic frameworks and methodologies to solve complex client problems

Client Deliverable Development

• Shape, prepare, and deliver project materials, deliverables, and reports
• Help shape, prepare, and deliver high-quality presentations, reports, and client-facing materials
• Contribute to the development of storyboards and key messages for client communications

Stakeholder Engagement and Communication

• Participate in client meetings and workshops under the supervision of senior team members
• Apply structured communication techniques to organize / socialize findings and insights logically
• Build trusted, positive relationships with client counterparts across levels

Continuous Learning and Skill Development

• Stay updated on and learn new industry trends, emerging technologies, and best practices
• Seek feedback and develop expertise in specific industries and functional areas
• Contribute to the firm's knowledge base with insights and learnings from project experiences

What You Will Need:

• Bachelors Degree
• Minimum of 2+ years of experience at a top-tier or boutique consulting firm
• Track record of creative problem-solving, self-motivation, and analytical prowess
• Ability to demonstrate excellent financial and quantitative analysis skills with experience in business case development and modeling
• Entrepreneurial spirit in fueling Guidehouse’s growing healthcare practice
• Ability to demonstrate excellent written and oral communication skills
• Proficient in PowerBI, Tableau and/or Alteryx
• Ability to travel as needed; up to 75%

What Would Be Nice To Have:

• MBA or MHA (MBA highly preferred)
• Experience in the Healthcare Payer or Provider industry
• Healthcare Industry affiliations
• Experience in AI, Cloud, and/or Machine Learning

What We Offer:

Guidehouse offers a comprehensive, total rewards package that includes competitive compensation and a flexible benefits package that reflects our commitment to creating a diverse and supportive workplace.

Benefits include:

• Medical, Rx, Dental & Vision Insurance

• Personal and Family Sick Time & Company Paid Holidays

• Position may be eligible for a discretionary variable incentive bonus

• Parental Leave and Adoption Assistance

• 401(k) Retirement Plan

• Basic Life & Supplemental Life

• Health Savings Account, Dental/Vision & Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts

• Short-Term & Long-Term Disability

• Student Loan PayDown

• Tuition Reimbursement, Personal Development & Learning Opportunities

• Skills Development & Certifications

• Employee Referral Program

• Corporate Sponsored Events & Community Outreach

• Emergency Back-Up Childcare Program

• Mobility Stipend

About Guidehouse

Guidehouse is an Equal Opportunity Employer–Protected Veterans, Individuals with Disabilities or any other basis protected by law, ordinance, or regulation.

Guidehouse will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable law or ordinance including the Fair Chance Ordinance of Los Angeles and San Francisco.

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