Healthcare Consulting Manager - Supply Chain

Huron helps its clients drive growth, enhance performance and sustain leadership in the markets they serve. We help healthcare organizations build innovation capabilities and accelerate key growth initiatives, enabling organizations to own the future, instead of being disrupted by it. Together, we empower clients to create sustainable growth, optimize internal processes and deliver better consumer outcomes.

Health systems, hospitals and medical clinics are under immense pressure to improve clinical outcomes and reduce the cost of providing patient care. Investing in new partnerships, clinical services and technology is not enough to create meaningful and substantive change. To succeed long-term, healthcare organizations must empower leaders, clinicians, employees, affiliates and communities to build cultures that foster innovation to achieve the best outcomes for patients.

Joining the Huron team means you’ll help our clients evolve and adapt to the rapidly changing healthcare environment and optimize existing business operations, improve clinical outcomes, create a more consumer-centric healthcare experience, and drive physician, patient and employee engagement across the enterprise.

Join our team as the expert you are now and create your future.

Managers play a vibrant, integral role at Huron. Their invaluable knowledge reflects in the projects they manage, and the teams they lead. As change leaders, our Managers build long-standing partnerships with clients, while collaborating with colleagues to solve our clients’ most pressing business challenges. Huron Managers shape and deliver results that seamlessly align with client goals, visions and missions. Remarkably versatile, our Managers also spend significant time mentoring junior staff on the engagement team—where they share expertise as well as feedback and encouragement. This benefits Huron profoundly as it promotes a culture of respect, unity, collaboration, and personal achievement.

As a Manager, you will have the unique ability to specialize in certain areas that showcase and employ your areas of expertise while gaining exposure to a breadth of capabilities across our performance improvement practice. Huron is big enough to offer the opportunity and exposure you need for your career growth—but small enough to give you individual attention needed for professional development. Every colleague contributes to who we are as an organization—and the more you evolve, the more we do. Create your future at Huron.

• Lead initiatives to streamline procurement, inventory management, and distribution processes, ensuring cost-effective and timely delivery of medical supplies and equipment.
• Direct oversight and optimization of clinical supply categories, with emphasis on high‑cost, high‑variation Physician Preference Items (PPI).
• Utilize data analytics to identify trends, forecast demand, and drive continuous improvement in supply chain operations, enhancing overall efficiency and reducing costs.
• Effective and efficient organization and planning skills with the proven ability to manage complex multi-workstream performance improvement projects or multiple concurrent client engagements, while delegating and overseeing the work of junior team members
• Proven analytical and critical thinking skills required to synthesize complex data sets and interpret qualitative and quantitative data and trends to implement recommendations resulting in measurable performance improvement and successful organizational change
• Impactful and professional written and verbal communication skills; ability to set clear project team direction, develop key deliverables, escalate risks, and influence key stakeholders inclusive of client and internal senior leadership
• Ability to collaborate with team members and client counterparts to understand business challenges, adapt implementation methodologies and approaches to ensure results align with client’s business objectives
• Team leadership experience including building talent, training, supervising, coaching/mentoring, and providing feedback through performance management
• Employees are required to follow utilization set by practice and expectations and it is the employees' responsibility to manage this.
• Required to complete all assigned instructed courses and compliance trainings

CORE QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelor's degree required
• Willingness and ability to travel every week up to 80% (Monday-Thursday with occasional onsite Fridays) and work extended hours as needed (40+)Strong leadership and management skills aligning to Huron’s core values and competencies
• Excellent communication skills – oral and written – and the interpersonal skills needed to quickly establish relationships of trust and collaboration
• The ability to train and participate in the professional development of Huron staff in both project management and technical dimensions
• Proficient in Microsoft office (Word, PowerPoint, Excel)Direct Supervisory Experience
• Preferred experience in a matrixed organization6-8 years of consulting and/or healthcare operations experience
• Ability to be flexible in any cross capabilities industry segments
• US Work Authorization required

PREFERRED EXPERIENCE:

• Relevant hospital operations experience directing a department and/or team-based projects with a focus on process re-engineering/performance improvement initiatives and change management, OR
• Project leadership and workplan management experience within a consulting firm setting with a focus on cost of care, workforce management, and/or supply chain services
• Specific experience in cost and expense management within administrative and corporate functions
• Expertise managing cost structures and improving operational workflows within post-acute settings (e.g., SNF, long-term care, home health, rehab)
• Seeking specific clinical leadership experience in multiple and varied care settings with a focus on care delivery optimization and redesign, talent strategy to include workforce planning, and promoting innovative digital strategies to improve care.

Position Level

Manager

Country

United States of America