Advocate Health Care

Strategy & Operations Consultant

Advocate Health Care$79K — $118K *
Rome, GA 30165In-Person
Healthcare
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5-7 years applying Lean, Six Sigma, or performance improvement methodologies
  • Strong analytical skills to analyze data from multiple sources
  • Master's degree in Healthcare Administration or related field preferred
  • Healthcare consulting or operational excellence experience desired
  • Ability to adapt to hybrid work environment and travel based on project needs

Responsibilities

  • Manage small to moderately complex consulting projects
  • Develop project plans and performance metrics
  • Make impactful recommendations for clients and colleagues
  • Utilize change management processes to support project adoption
  • Lead meetings and sessions to execute client engagements
  • Conduct data analysis to test hypotheses and inform strategies
  • Plan, organize, and evaluate projects from conception to implementation

Benefits

  • Comprehensive health and welfare benefits (medical, dental, vision)
  • Paid Time Off programs
  • Flexible Spending Accounts for healthcare expenses
  • Defined contribution retirement plans with employer match
  • Educational Assistance Program
  • Generous retirement offerings and career development opportunities
Full Job Description
Department:

10112 Enterprise Corporate - Enterprise Consulting

Status:

Full time

Benefits Eligible:

Yes

Hours Per Week:

40

Schedule Details/Additional Information:

  • Experience applying Lean, Six Sigma, Industrial Engineering, or other performance improvement methodologies to drive measurable operational and financial outcomes.
  • Strong analytical skills with the ability to extract, validate, and analyze raw data from multiple sources, translating findings into actionable recommendations for leadership.
  • Master's degree in Healthcare Administration (MHA), Industrial Engineering, Operations Management, or related field preferred; healthcare consulting or operational excellence experience strongly desired.
  • Hybrid role - will require some onsite work depending on project needs.
  • We are looking to hire in our Milwaukee, WI, Charlotte, NC or Georgia footprint.


Pay Range:
$38.20 - $57.30

As a member in the Enterprise Consulting group, manages small to moderately complex projects, or assists client in execution of portions of engagement. Develops project work plans and related performance metrics to ensure all project activities are executed against established timelines and budgets, leveraging the SOC approach, tools and templates. Uses process improvement, performance improvement or project management methodologies and effective management of internal/external resources assigned to complete activities.

The Enterprise Consulting Group (ECG) is the organization's internal consulting arm and a trusted advisor to senior leaders. ECG accelerates enterprise priorities by deploying high-impact teams that execute strategic, transformative, and operational initiatives-delivering measurable financial results, scalable solutions, and sustainable value aligned with the organization's mission and strategy. As a force multiplier, ECG drives optimization and transformation through adaptive, data-driven approaches, including strategic facilitation, performance improvement, and program and project management.

Major Responsibilities

  • Develops solutions and makes recommendations impacting clients and colleagues.
  • Builds a network of contacts.
  • Develops techniques of persuasive verbal and written presentation.
  • Identifies and manages change effectively and efficiently in a changing environment.
  • Works with team members to utilize change management processes and tools to create plans to support adoptions of changes required by project or initiative.
  • Tests client hypotheses and solutions with robust data consulting processes and techniques.
  • Leads meetings/work sessions to support execution of engagements.
  • Manages delivery in consulting engagement under guidance of experienced colleagues.
  • Uses planning tools and techniques and sets milestones appropriate for size and scale of assignment. Handles changes in project scope and seeks advice when needed.
  • Defines project management processes and standards and establishes targets, benchmarks and performance measures for project delivery.
  • Plans, organizes, controls and evaluates projects from concept phase to implementation.
  • Assists with data collection, data entry and report generation.


Minimum Job Requirements

Education
  • Bachelor's Degree in Business or Related Field
  • Master's preferred


Certifications
  • None


Work Experience
  • Typically requires ~3 years of experience in healthcare payer or provider operations.


Knowledge / Skills / Abilities
  • Knowledge and expertise in use of project, program management, and performance improvement methodologies and tools.
  • Advanced computer skills in Microsoft Office Suite, particularly around Excel and PowerPoint
  • Strong written and oral communication skills with demonstrated ability to concisely communicate with key leaders.
  • Highly motivated, organized, self-starter with a focus on delivery of key project objectives with the ability to work through the challenges associated with projects of varying complexity.
  • Demonstrated effective interpersonal skills and evidence of being a strong team player.
  • Possesses a strong orientation toward innovation and new ideas.
  • Facilitation and persuasion skills with ability to influence peers, superiors and sub-ordinates.
  • Capable of influencing project team members to achieve goals associated with successful project delivery.
  • Reliably work with operational leaders to address important factors in critical decisions.
  • Ability to conduct data analysis and glean insights relevant to the work.


Physical Requirements and Working Conditions
  • Position is hybrid, ability to travel to an Advocate facility with 24 hour's notice is required.
  • Position requires travel and is therefore exposed to road, weather, and normal travel hazards.
  • Operates all equipment necessary to perform the job.
  • Exposed to a normal office environment.


Our Commitment to You:

Advocate Health offers a comprehensive suite of Total Rewards: benefits and well-being programs, competitive compensation, generous retirement offerings, programs that invest in your career development and so much more - so you can live fully at and away from work, including:

Compensation
  • Base compensation listed within the listed pay range based on factors such as qualifications, skills, relevant experience, and/or training
  • Premium pay such as shift, on call, and more based on a teammate's job
  • Incentive pay for select positions
  • Opportunity for annual increases based on performance


Benefits and more
  • Paid Time Off programs
  • Health and welfare benefits such as medical, dental, vision, life, and Short- and Long-Term Disability
  • Flexible Spending Accounts for eligible health care and dependent care expenses
  • Family benefits such as adoption assistance and paid parental leave
  • Defined contribution retirement plans with employer match and other financial wellness programs
  • Educational Assistance Program


Note: Eligibility for programs listed above may depend on your FTE or status (e.g., full-time, part-time, per diem, temporary, etc.); please ask a Recruiter for more information during an interview.

About Advocate Health Care

Advocate Health Care is a not-for-profit, faith-based health system providing comprehensive health care services to the people of Illinois. The organization is the largest fully integrated health care delivery system in Illinois, with more than 500 sites of care and 12 hospitals, including two of the nation’s 100 Top Hospitals, the state’s largest integrated children’s network, five Level I trauma centers (the state’s highest designation in trauma care), three Level II trauma centers, one of the area’s largest home health and hospice companies and one of the region’s largest medical groups. Advocate Health Care trains more primary care physicians and residents at its four teaching hospitals than any other health system in the state. As a not-for-profit, mission-based health system affiliated with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America and the United Church of Christ, Advocate contributed $1.6 billion in charitable care and services to communities across Chicagoland and Central Illinois in 2019.
Learn more about Advocate Health Care
Size
75,000 employees
Industry
Founded
1976

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