[Hiring] Senior Consultant @Premier Inc.

Role Description

The Senior Consultant is required to also participate in Premier internal activities including practice development, required, and approved educational opportunities throughout the year and learning the various technologies Premier offers to its clients. Additionally, the Women’s and Children’s Collaboratives Senior Consultant should:

• Create value through meaningful client interactions, data analytics and insights, and team participation in the collaboratives.
• Create value for Collaboratives through meaningful participation on practice related activities aimed at growing and enriching the Women’s and Children’s Collaboratives as a whole.
• Motivated and results driven; pushes self for results on commitments/deadlines; takes ownership and accountability for own work; willing to see issues through to resolution.

Key Responsibilities

• Responsibility #1– 85%
  • Collaborate and support delivery of accessible and helpful forums for sharing best practices.
  • Provide input to collaborative activities such as the collaborative site assessments, member meetings, educational sessions, and the use of the Premier platforms.
  • Obtain data, execute/direct/oversee analyses, initiate interpretations, and conclusions, and prepare verbal and graphic presentations.
  • Perform quality assurance on assigned collaborative deliverables.
  • Contribute content and share best practices with members.
  • Assist in determining Member needs by effectively participating in Member discussions and utilizing various tools and analytical methods.
  • Summarize analytical findings in a coherent manner and draw insight from observations, interviews, and data analyses.
  • Develop accurate conclusions from findings and draft recommendations and potential solutions for collaborative leadership review.
  • Effectively execute on project plans in accordance with collaborative contracts and overall Member satisfaction.
  • Develop presentations and deliverables for Members that communicate areas for improvement and outcomes.
  • Participate in project management related activities as assigned regarding their work stream.
  • Participate in risk and issue identification and mitigation along with the project leadership team.
• Responsibility #2 – 5%
  • Learn Premier based technologies and services.
• Responsibility #3 – 5%
  • Actively listen for market opportunities on current engagements and collaborative networks and communicate potential leads to managers.
  • Contribute to collaborative related thought leadership opportunities (e.g., contributing to the writing of blogs, poster/presentations for industry events).
  • Identify opportunities to improve profitability.
• Responsibility #4 – 5%
  • Complete all required training requirements on an annual basis.

Qualifications

• Years of Applicable Experience: 4 or more years
• Education: Bachelor's (Required)

Preferred Qualifications

• Coordinate and deliver effective presentations (verbal and written) to client audiences to communicate project outcomes, recommendations, and strategy.
• Ability to conduct analyses and oversee and mentor others in the delivery and production of client deliverables.
• Ability to relate to clients and team members in an effective and collaborative manner.
• Ability to lead work groups to successful outcomes.
• Analytics Focused Roles.
• Lean Process Improvement; Six Sigma Green/Black belt.
• Experience in Health Systems Finance, Operations (clinical, support or operations), Operational or Strategic Consulting, Strategic Planning or Decision Support Analytics.
• Experience analyzing complex healthcare data sets and developing visualizations and presentations to support data-driven recommendations.
• Experience with qualitative and quantitative data validation and analysis.
• Experience in new methodology development and strategic problem-solving skills.
• Education: Bachelor’s Degree, master’s degree.
• Registered Nurse (RN) license.

Additional Job Requirements

• Remain in a stationary position for prolonged periods of time.
• Be adaptive and change priorities quickly; meet deadlines.
• Attention to detail.
• Operate computer programs and software.
• Ability to communicate effectively with audiences in person and in electronic formats.
• Day-to-day contact with others (co-workers and/or the public).
• Making independent decisions.
• Ability to work in a collaborative business environment in close quarters with peers and varying interruptions.

Working Conditions

• Remote
• Travel Requirements: Travel 61-80% within the US
• Physical Demands: Sedentary work involves remaining stationary most of the time.

Benefits

• Health, dental, vision, life and disability insurance.
• 401k retirement program.
• Paid time off.
• Participation in Premier’s employee incentive plans.
• Tuition reimbursement and professional development opportunities.

Company Description

• Granted World's Most Ethical Companies, Ethisphere, 2008-2026.
• Named U.S. News & World Report, Best Companies to Work For (2023, 2024, 2025).
• Accredited by Forbes: America’s Best Management Consulting Firms 2024-2025.
• Given Modern Healthcare Best in Business Awards: Consultants- Healthcare Management.
• Awarded Cigna Workforce Designation Gold Level Recipient (2016,2017,2019,2020,2021,2022,2023,2025).