Expert Associate Partner, Medicare at McKinsey & Company in Chicago, IL

QUALIFICATIONS

• Undergraduate or Master’s degree, MBA, MHA preferred; outstanding record of academic achievement
• 7+ years of experience in Medicare (i.e., at a health plan, Medicare consulting firm, or startup), with increasing responsibility and leadership
• Experience in and strong knowledge of healthcare sector overall and Medicare in particular (e.g., CMS rules and regulations (bids, pricing, MLR, etc.), Stars program experience, Code capture and risk adjustment, Individual and group Medicare product and market knowledge)
• Experience designing, building, and/or deploying analytical assets in a professional services environment using healthcare data (e.g., claims data), through commanding resources from across domains
• High level of entrepreneurship, professionalism and excitement to expand client service and tools
• Able to provide leadership over and influence individuals and across multiple stakeholders from different levels, backgrounds by tailoring approach
• Strong problem-solver who can quickly process complex information and present it clearly and simply during change transformation efforts with clients
• Able to multi-task, work under pressure and deliver accurate and high quality results
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• Delivery-focused mindset, with unquestionable ability to deliver against firm timelines and deadlines, while managing set resources and budgets
• As applicable, comfortable traveling ~50% to client sites

WHO YOU'LL WORK WITH

You’ll work with McKinsey’s Healthcare Practice in one of our offices in North America.

Our healthcare practice is home to 500+ colleagues in North America consisting of consultants, deep content and technical experts, technologists, and operational leaders. We come together, often as blended teams to improve healthcare. Our healthcare practice serves N. American payors, providers and services companies and works with both public sector and private sector healthcare organizations.

Our practice is organized around domains, which house intellectual property and expert practitioners, centers of excellence, and tribes (cross-functional special teams working to bring a distinctive approach to our clients in practice priority areas like digital and analytics).

WHAT YOU'LL DO

You will be a leader in our Medicare client service line.

You will maintain deep, specialized expertise in Medicare topics (e.g.,) and use that expertise to solve problems and serve as trusted advisor to clients to create change and lasting impact. You will spend time creating opportunities and driving transformational impact with a set of core clients and serve in an engagement director role.

From the start of a project, you will be ensuring that engagement success is a priority. We engage at a deep level across our clients’ businesses, working in small teams to build the capabilities, systems, and processes needed to deliver bottom-line results and then ensure those results are sustainable. Our work is about problem solving, coaching, and delivering lasting outcomes.

You will provide input into the development and codification of distinctive, client-ready knowledge assets on Medicare topics, and to leverage these assets with your clients.