External Job Title: Consulting Associate, Healthcare
Practice: Healthcare
Level: Associate
Location: Bangalore
Huron is a global consultancy that collaborates with clients to drive strategic growth, ignite innovation and navigate constant change. Through a combination of strategy, expertise and creativity, we help clients accelerate operational, digital and cultural transformation, enabling the change they need to own their future.
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.
POSITION SUMMARY
Associates play an indispensable role at Huron. Our dynamic Associates lead one or more project work streams utilizing Huron approaches, methodologies and tools to implement impactful and innovative solutions to address our clients’ business challenges. Skilled relationship builders, our Associates collaborate with clients while simultaneously managing junior Huron staff. Everyone works in symphony to achieve a common objective: create and implement sustainable solutions. Through our varied projects, Associates gain valuable, hands-on consulting and change management experience, while positively impacting mission-driven healthcare organizations.
REQUIRED SKILLS
Ability to work independently and manage multiple tasks effectively.
Proven critical thinking skills in both data collection and complex analysis; ability to identify gaps and risks, summarize findings, and develop conclusions
Effective at delegating tasks to junior staff while managing the overall quality of project deliverables
Execution against project workplans, escalating risks and barriers, and coordinating client communication to ensure project delivery schedule is achieved
Collaboration with internal team members during the project, including presenting key takeaways, communicating project updates, and organizing overall project logistics
Ability to apply proven methodologies and best practices to unique client situations; skilled at collaboration with project team members and client stakeholders to design and implement effective solutions to complex business problems
Direct supervisory experience including coaching, mentorship, and providing feedback through performance management
CORE QUALIFICATIONS
Bachelor's degree required
Proficient in Microsoft office (Word, PowerPoint, Excel)
Excellent communication skills; strong written and oral English skills
3 to 5 years relevant project implementation or process improvement experience in a team-based environment
o Preferably 1 -2 years experience within consulting
Strong critical thinking, problem-solving and analytical skills
Direct supervisory experience
Located in or near Bangalore; role requires individual in office
PREFERRED EXPERIENCE (Revenue)
Relevant hospital or physician revenue cycle experience supervising a department and/or team-based projects with a focus on process improvement initiatives and change management, OR
Project leadership and workplan management experience within a consulting firm setting with a focus on hospital or physician revenue cycle, denials management, revenue integrity, or patient access services
Work From Office Policy
Our hybrid working policy offers in office and remote flexibility by default based on team delivery and collaboration requirements
In office time is leveraged for skillset development/bootcamps, team building, and collaboration activities
Those on Epic projects or with client requirements must present daily, as project requires
Leadership has discretion to require onsite presence
