[Hiring] Consultant - Supply Chain Advisory Services @Premier Inc.

Role Description

The Consultant works collaboratively within a team of highly qualified Advisory consultants to deliver performance improvement to healthcare systems. This position will be primarily responsible for performing billable work for clients. 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
• Form initial recommendations based on data interpretations, observations, and interviews
• Draft deliverables for various audiences
• Assist in the implementation of recommended improvements

The Consultant participates in all aspects of the engagement including:

• Identifying issues
• Forming hypotheses
• Planning and participating in interviews
• Leading analyses and data interpretation
• Synthesizing and forming conclusions into recommendations
• Drafting deliverables
• Helping to implement change

This position will work in a team environment and provide input and support to team deliverables and presentations during each phase of a project. They may be asked to 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
• Learning the various technologies Premier offers to its clients

Additionally, the Consultant should:

• 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 PINC AI databases and methods of connecting existing and new datasets together to create enriched content used for analytics. This role interacts with clients, Premier internal product teams, and Advisory counterparts across all the service lines; and is expected to build working relationships within the Premier/Client team. They will lead production and quality assurance of client analytics deliverables and provide data-driven insights and solutions. Additional responsibilities include:

• 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.

Key Responsibilities

• 60%: Obtain data, execute/direct/oversee analyses, initiate interpretations, and conclusions, and prepare verbal and graphic presentations, using methods that are professionally sound and efficient relative to project objectives and conform to standards.
• Assist in determining client needs by effectively participating in client interviews and utilizing various tools and analytical methods. Summarizes analytical findings in a coherent manner and draws insight from observations, interviews, and data analyses. Develops accurate conclusions from findings. Drafts recommendations for team leadership review.
• Effectively executes on project plans in accordance with engagement statements of work and to client satisfaction.
• Develop presentations and deliverables for client audiences that communicate strategy and outcomes.
• Generate billings revenue by conducting assigned analyses, writing, and preparing reports, and assisting clients in implementing desired changes.
• Actively listens for market opportunities on current engagements and collaborative networks and communicates potential leads to managers.
• 20%: Participate in practice development activities for the Advisory Services Practice overall or for the Service Lines within the Practice.
• 15%: Learn Premier based technologies and services.
• 5%: Complete all required training requirements on an annual basis.

Qualifications

• Years of Applicable Experience - 2 or more years
• High School (Required)

Requirements

• Awareness of market trends and key competitor’s activities
• Negotiation skills
• Effective approaches to closing the sale
• Networking skills
• Client and healthcare industry knowledge
• 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
• Statistical tools (R, Python, SAS, Matlab, etc.)
• Advanced Excel skills
• Tableau and Business Intelligence experience
• Lean Process Improvement; Six Sigma Green/Black belt
• 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
• Bachelor’s degree

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