[Hiring] Consultant - Data Operations & Technology @Premier Inc.

Role Description

The Consultant works collaboratively within a team of highly qualified data operations and technology team to deliver performance improvement to women and infants collaborative. The role of the Consultant is to actively participate with an engagement team to determine our client’s needs; take the lead in analyzing data and interpreting data; forming initial recommendations based on data interpretations, observations, and interviews; drafting deliverables for various audiences; and assisting in the implementation of recommended improvements.

• Participates in all aspects of the engagement including identifying issues, forming hypotheses, planning, and participating in interviews.
• Leads analyses and data interpretation, synthesizing, and forming conclusions into recommendations.
• Drafts deliverables and helps implement change.
• Works in a team environment and provides input and support to team deliverables and presentations during each phase of a project.
• May oversee the work of an Analyst during the delivery of the engagement.

Consultants are required to participate in Premier internal activities including practice development, required, and approved educational opportunities throughout the year, and learn the various technologies Premier offers to its clients.

• Maintain utilization targets for client billable projects.
• Create value through meaningful client interactions, data analytics and insights, and team participation on client projects.
• Create value for the Advisory practice through meaningful participation on practice related activities aimed at growing and enriching the Practice as a whole or individual Service Lines within the Practice.

Analytics Focused Roles:

• Consultants on the Analytics team will have some expertise in Premier and Premier's Quality Enterprise databases and methods of connecting existing and new datasets together to create enriched content used for analytics.
• Interact with clients, Premier internal product teams, and Advisory counterparts across all the service lines.
• Lead production and quality assurance of client analytics deliverables and provide data-driven insights and solutions.

• Build and maintain dynamic and interactive data models based on Premier and client needs.
• Lead process standardization efforts.
• Lead efforts to standardize and automate client deliverables and internal tools.
• Troubleshoot Tableau workbooks, SQL scripts, Excel analyses, etc.

Qualifications

• Years of Applicable Experience: 2 or more years.
• Education: High School (Required).

Requirements

• Awareness of market trends and key competitor’s activities.
• Negotiation skills and effective approaches to closing the sale.
• Networking skills in the client and healthcare industry.
• Understand risk management practices; identifies, communicates, and responds to risks and issues to manager.
• Assist in determining client needs by gathering and researching data, utilizing common tools and analytical methods.
• Proficient in statistical tools (R, Python, SAS, Matlab, etc.), Advanced Excel skills, Tableau, Business Intelligence.
• Strong analytical skills; SQL skills preferred.
• Experience in healthcare, business, or finance.
• Demonstrated interest in healthcare performance management.
• Demonstrated capability to lead and show value from their efforts.
• 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.

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.