Guidehouse

Senior Consultant, Healthcare Strategy & Transformation

Guidehouse$98K — $163K *
Healthcare
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree required.
  • 3+ years of consulting or healthcare industry experience.
  • Experience in healthcare strategy and/or transformation preferably in payer/provider contexts.
  • Strong understanding of commercial payer environments and reimbursement fundamentals.
  • Excellent analytical skills with advanced Excel proficiency.
  • Proven ability to lead workstreams and create client-ready deliverables.
  • Ability to obtain Public Trust clearance and travel up to 25%.

Responsibilities

  • Lead workstreams in healthcare strategy and transformation engagements, ensuring strong execution and delivery.
  • Translate client needs into structured problem-solving approaches and drive project execution.
  • Apply expertise in commercial payer dynamics to address federal health challenges.
  • Guide data collection, analysis, and synthesis to create actionable insights.
  • Develop executive-quality presentations and written products that convey key insights.
  • Facilitate stakeholder engagement through workshops and working sessions, and manage communications.
  • Coach and mentor junior staff while contributing to internal capability development.

Benefits

  • Medical, Rx, Dental & Vision Insurance
  • Personal and Family Sick Time & Company Paid Holidays
  • Discretionary variable incentive bonus eligibility
  • Parental Leave and Adoption Assistance
  • 401(k) Retirement Plan
  • Life insurance options
  • Flexible Spending Accounts for healthcare and dependent care
  • Short-Term & Long-Term Disability coverage
  • Student Loan PayDown program
  • Tuition Reimbursement for personal development
  • Programs for skills development and certifications
  • Employee Referral Program for rewarding referrals
  • Community outreach and corporate-sponsored events
  • Emergency Back-Up Childcare assistance
  • Mobility Stipend for travel-related expenses.
Full Job Description

Job Family:

Strategy & Transformation Consulting


Travel Required:

Up to 25%


Clearance Required:

Ability to Obtain Public Trust

What You Will Do:

We are building out our team with Senior Consultants who have a strong understanding of how healthcare payer organizations operate, especially in the commercial market, and how reimbursement, payment structures, and policies influence decisions and outcomes. This pipeline supports work across commercial and federal health, including VA-related engagements; commercial payer experience is prioritized and federal experience is a nice to have. Candidates may bring payer strategy/transformation experience (enterprise strategy, operating model, performance improvement) and/or payer operations/payment experience (claims/payment functions, analytics, policy-informed operations), with the ability to lead workstreams and coach others.

What You Will Do

  • Lead defined workstreamswithin healthcare strategy and transformation engagements, owning the day-to-day execution, analytic outputs, and storyline development to ensurehigh-quality, on-time deliverywith minimal oversight.

  • Translate ambiguous client needs into structured problem solving: frame the problem, develop hypotheses, design the workplan, and drive execution (including task planning, analysis, synthesis, and risk/issue escalation).

  • Apply commercial payer/provider expertise to federal health challenges, bringing a pragmatic perspective on how reimbursement, payment structures, and policy-driven incentives influence operations, provider behavior, and performance outcomes.

  • Perform and guide analysis to insight: collect/clean data, conduct quantitative and qualitative analyses, and turn findings into decision-ready implications (e.g., trend insights, root cause drivers, opportunity sizing, and prioritization).

  • Develop executive-ready deliverables(PowerPoint and brief written products) that clearly communicate 3o what4 insights1using strong narrative structure, exhibits, and concise recommendations.

  • Support operational and performance transformationby mapping current state, identifying pain points, designing target-state processes/operating models, and defining governance and metrics (including performance measurement and reporting approaches).

  • Facilitate stakeholder engagement: plan and lead working sessions, interviews, and workshops; synthesize inputs; and manage workstream communications with client and internal stakeholders.

  • Coach and mentor junior staffthrough thoughtful delegation, quality review, and actionable feedback, raising the bar on analytical rigor and client-ready communication.

  • Contribute to internal capability building(templates, accelerators, thought leadership) and, as needed, support proposals/capture efforts across the firm.


What You Will Need:

  • Bachelors degree.

  • 3+ yearsof experience in consulting and/or healthcare industry roles.

  • Demonstrated experience inhealthcare strategy and/or transformation, with exposure to payer/provider, operating models, or performance improvement.

  • Strong understanding ofcommercial payer/provider environments, including reimbursement/payment fundamentals and how policy and payment structures affect outcomes.

  • Strong analytical skills and comfort working with data;advanced Excel proficiency required.

  • Proven ability tolead workstreams, build client-ready deliverables, and communicate effectively (written and verbal).

  • Ability to obtain aPublic Trustclearance (i.e. US Citizenship required)

  • Ability to travel as needed (up to 25%).


What Would Be Nice To Have:

  • Depth incommercial payer functions(e.g., claims/payment operations, payment policy, network strategy, utilization management, value-based care, risk adjustment, payment integrity/FWA).

  • Provider-side strategy/ops experience (e.g., revenue cycle, access, care coordination, clinical operations, service line strategy).

  • Experience supportingfederal health programs(VA strongly preferred), including working in complex stakeholder environments and navigating policy-informed delivery contexts.

  • Experience with analytics-enabled transformation (dashboards/scorecards, governance, and adoption).

  • MBA/MHA/MPH or other relevant advanced degree.

The annual salary range for this position is $98,000.00-$163,000.00. Compensation decisions depend on a wide range of factors, including but not limited to skill sets, experience and training, security clearances, licensure and certifications, and other business and organizational needs.


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 a management consulting firm headquartered in Washington, D.C. The firm provides consulting services to clients in the public and commercial sectors, with a focus on energy, financial services, healthcare, national security, and aerospace and defense. Guidehouse was founded in 2018 as a spin-off from PwC. The firm has over 7,000 employees and operates in more than 50 locations worldwide.
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