[Hiring] Consultant Advisory Services @Premier Inc.

Role Description

The Consultant works collaboratively within a team of highly qualified Advisory consultants to deliver performance improvement to healthcare systems. This position will be primarily responsible for performing billable work for clients. The role of the Consultant is to actively participate with an engagement team to:

• Determine our client’s needs
• Take the lead in analyzing data and interpreting data
• Form initial recommendations based on data interpretations, observations, and interviews
• Draft deliverables for various audiences
• Assist in the implementation of recommended improvements

The Consultant participates in all aspects of the engagement including:

• Identifying issues
• Forming hypotheses
• Planning and participating in interviews
• Leading analyses and data interpretation
• Synthesizing and forming conclusions into recommendations
• Drafting deliverables
• Helping to implement change

This position will work in a team environment and provide input and support to team deliverables and presentations during each phase of a project. They may be asked to oversee the work of an Analyst during the delivery of the engagement.

Consultants are required to participate in Premier internal activities including:

• Practice development
• Required and approved educational opportunities throughout the year
• Learning the various technologies Premier offers to its clients

Additionally, the Consultant should:

• Maintain utilization targets for client billable projects
• Create value through meaningful client interactions, data analytics and insights, and team participation on client projects
• Create value for the Advisory practice through meaningful participation on practice-related activities aimed at growing and enriching the Practice as a whole or individual Service Lines within the Practice

Consultants on the Analytics team will have some expertise in Premier and PINC AI databases and methods of connecting existing and new datasets together to create enriched content used for analytics. This role interacts with clients, Premier internal product teams, and Advisory counterparts across all the service lines; and is expected to build working relationships within the Premier/Client team. They will lead production and quality assurance of client analytics deliverables and provide data-driven insights and solutions. Additional responsibilities include:

• Build and maintain dynamic and interactive data models based on Premier and client needs
• Lead process standardization efforts
• Lead efforts to standardize and automate client deliverables and internal tools
• Troubleshoot Tableau workbooks, SQL scripts, Excel analyses, etc.

Qualifications

• 2 or more years of applicable experience
• High School education (Required)

Requirements

• Awareness of market trends and key competitor’s activities
• Negotiation skills
• Effective approaches to closing the sale
• Networking skills
• Understanding of risk management practices
• Statistical tools (R, Python, SAS, Matlab, etc.)
• Advanced Excel skills
• Tableau and Business Intelligence experience
• Lean Process Improvement; Six Sigma Green/Black belt
• Experience in healthcare, business, or finance
• Demonstrated interest in healthcare performance management
• Experience analyzing complex healthcare data sets
• Experience with qualitative and quantitative data validation and analysis
• Experience in new methodology development and strategic problem-solving skills
• Bachelor’s degree

Benefits

• Health, dental, vision, life and disability insurance
• 401k retirement program
• Paid time off
• Participation in Premier’s employee incentive plans
• Tuition reimbursement and professional development opportunities