Role Summary
Advise clients on network strategy, utilization performance, and provider market challenges across Medicaid, rural, and financially pressured environments. The successful candidate will combine deep domain expertise with strong consulting judgment and will be expected to manage teams, advise senior clients, and deliver complex engagements in network strategy, utilization, and provider performance. This individual will build trusted client relationships and help clients improve network performance, access, and provider sustainability in line with their strategic priorities.

As a Network Performance/Utilization Manager, your primary responsibilities may include:

• Advise clients on network strategy, provider capacity, utilization trends, access challenges, and market performance.

• Advise clients on evaluating leakage, referral patterns, service distribution, network adequacy, and provider sustainability.

• Develop strategic recommendations to improve network design, access, utilization management, provider alignment, and value-based outcomes.

• Translate claims, encounter, provider, and market data into clear insights, strategic options, and executive decision materials.

• Manage day-to-day engagement delivery, including workplans, team coordination, deliverable quality, and client communications.

• Work across reimbursement, analytics, policy, and provider strategy teams to solve complex market and performance challenges.

• Build trusted relationships with client stakeholders and help grow the practice's network performance and utilization work.

• Travel: As required, up to 80%

Qualification

Here's what you need:

• Minimum of 5 years of experience in network strategy, utilization analytics, provider economics, or healthcare market analysis.

• Minimum of 2 years of experience assessing hospitals, rural providers, FQHCs, specialty providers, and community-based providers in Medicaid-heavy or financially distressed environments.

• Minimum of 2 years of experience turning claims, encounter, provider, and market data into strategic recommendations.

• Bachelor's Degree

Bonus points if you have:

• Familiarity with provider directory and network data management, data quality, and encounter completeness.

• Strong understanding of provider capacity, leakage, referral patterns, utilization drivers, access, and network adequacy.

• Ability to connect utilization performance to reimbursement, provider sustainability, and VBC outcomes.

• Experience building provider performance scorecards (utilization, quality, access, equity, financial impact).

• Understanding of service line strategy and site-of-care optimization (ASC vs HOPD, home-based care, telehealth).

Compensation at Accenture varies depending on a wide array of factors, which may include but are not limited to the specific office location, role, skill set, and level of experience. As required by local law, Accenture provides a reasonable range of compensation for roles that may be hired as set forth below.
We anticipate this job posting will be posted until 05/16/2026.

Accenture offers a market competitive suite of benefits including medical, dental, vision, life, and long-term disability coverage, a 401(k) plan, bonus opportunities, paid holidays, and paid time off. See more information on our benefits here:

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Role Location Annual Salary Range
California $94,400 to $293,800
Cleveland $87,400 to $235,000
Colorado $94,400 to $253,800
District of Columbia $100,500 to $270,300
Illinois $87,400 to $253,800
Maryland $94,400 to $253,800
Massachusetts $94,400 to $270,300
Minnesota $94,400 to $253,800
New York $87,400 to $293,800
New Jersey $100,500 to $293,800
Washington $100,500 to $270,300