[Hiring] Senior Consultant, Health & Welfare Benefits @Purchaser Business Group on Health

Role Description

The Senior Consultant, Health & Welfare Benefits supports PBGH’s mission to advance high-value, affordable, and equitable health care by delivering independent, purchaser-focused advisory services to employers and other health care purchasers. Serving as a strategic advisor—not a broker—this role provides objective analysis, market insight, and evidence-based guidance to support employer’s fiduciary decision-making across the health and welfare benefits lifecycle.

Working closely with PBGH senior leaders and subject-matter experts, the Senior Consultant is responsible for:

• Executing and managing day-to-day advisory engagements.
• Producing rigorous, insight-driven analyses and recommendations.
• Contributing to solution development.
• Translating complex health data into actionable strategies for employers.
• Helping shape purchaser-relevant insights that can scale across PBGH’s employer community.

This role requires:

• Strong technical expertise and analytical depth.
• Comprehensive knowledge of employee benefits.
• Well-established relationships with employers and the health markets.
• Polished client-ready communication skills.
• Ability to operate independently with minimal oversight.
• Agility in handling shifting priorities and dynamic environments.
• Collaboration across internal and external stakeholders.
• Upholding PBGH’s independent advisory posture.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree required.
• A minimum of 8+ years of experience in a consulting or similar environment advising large/jumbo employers on health and welfare benefits.
• Demonstrated ability to solve Fortune 500 companies’ complex health and benefits issues.
• Strong working knowledge of the health benefits ecosystem, including carriers, PBMs, point solutions, and consulting/brokerage models.
• Demonstrated experience analyzing employer medical and pharmacy claims data and translating results into client-ready insights.
• Solid technical expertise across health and welfare topics, such as financial and actuarial concepts, plan design, vendor evaluation, compliance (e.g., ERISA, CAA), pharmacy and PBM strategies, mental health, wellbeing, and emerging solutions.
• Proven ability to manage multiple workstreams and adapt to shifting priorities in a fast-paced environment.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with experience developing polished PowerPoint presentations and executive summaries.
• Mastery of Microsoft Office Suite.
• Highly organized, detail-oriented, and proactive.
• Ability to travel approximately 10–15%.
• Life & Health Insurance License.

Requirements

• Independently manages multiple client engagements and owns defined workstreams from start to finish.
• Develops client-ready analyses, insights, and deliverables across health and welfare strategies, including medical, pharmacy, wellbeing, and point solutions.
• Develops and monitors engagement work plans, timelines, and milestones; proactively identifies risks, dependencies, or scope changes and escalates as appropriate to project and practice leadership to support on-time, high-quality delivery.
• Collaborates with internal project teams, subcontractors, and external partners, coordinating closely with senior leaders to ensure effective execution of assigned projects.
• Maintains organized project documentation, data files, and work products.
• Prepares materials and presents findings to client teams with clarity and confidence, alongside and with review from senior leadership.
• Partners with leadership to ensure recommendations are practical, data-driven, and aligned with client objectives and PBGH advisory principles.
• Translates key findings into externally facing white papers, briefs, and presentations, with senior leadership input, to advance collective impact.

Benefits

• Competitive annual base salary range of $138,000 - $168,000.
• Year-end bonus potential.
• A generous contributory retirement plan.
• Comprehensive benefits.
• Opportunities for professional growth.

Commitment to Diversity

PBGH is an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law. PBGH strongly encourages applicants with diverse backgrounds, experiences and perspectives.