Senior Associate - Healthcare Insights

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The Organization

We help society’s foundational healthcare institutions to achieve their full potential in service to others.

We are our clients’ trusted partners in ever-changing times. For nearly 40 years, Kaufman Hall has provided independent, objective insights grounded in sound data and analysis to help clients fulfill their missions, achieve their goals, and tackle their toughest problems.

Kaufman Hall provides world-class management consulting in Strategy & Business Transformation, Financial Planning & Data Analytics, Treasury & Capital Markets, Mergers & Acquisitions, Revenue & Operations Improvement, and Clinical Solutions.

At Kaufman Hall, we believe that sustained success is never an accident. It is the result of sound decision making, based on data-driven analysis and disciplined thinking, and guided by the fundamental principles of corporate finance.

The Position

Kaufman, Hall & Associates, LLC, is seeking a Sr. Associate, Healthcare Insights to support the development and ongoing enhancement of Kaufman Hall's health-system insights and intelligence capability.

The Sr. Associate will play a key role in developing an analytical foundation through the interpretation, validation, and application of health-system financial, operating, market, and organizational data. This individual will contribute to the development of benchmarks, comparative analyses, and analytical approaches that enable consultants to evaluate health-system performance.

The successful candidate will combine healthcare financial and analytical expertise with intellectual curiosity, sound business judgment, and a passion for solving complex problems. The role requires an individual who can independently manage analytical workstreams, develop and test hypotheses, synthesize findings into actionable insights, and collaborate effectively with healthcare subject-matter experts, technology partners, and business stakeholders. This individual will help ensure data, measures, and resulting insights are accurate, meaningful, and relevant to consulting needs.

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Key Responsibilities

• Independently analyze and synthesize health-system financial, operating, market, and organizational data to identify meaningful trends, relationships, and insights that support the development and enhancement of Kaufman Hall’s Insights Engine.
• Develop, test, and refine hypotheses related to health-system performance, market dynamics, peer comparisons, and industry trends.
• Lead defined analytical workstreams supporting Kaufman Hall’s Insights Engine, including the development and enhancement of benchmarks, comparison groups, performance measures, and other analytical assets used within the capability.
• Validate data elements, metrics, calculations, benchmarks, and analytical outputs to ensure accuracy, consistency, and relevance.
• Collaborate with healthcare subject-matter experts, technology partners, and Innovation and Insights leadership to develop analytical approaches and translate findings into meaningful business insights.
• Evaluate data quality and identify inconsistencies, gaps, anomalies, and opportunities to improve the accuracy and usability of Kaufman Hall’s data assets.
• Develop reports, presentations, and analytical summaries that communicate findings, implications, and recommendations to consulting and business audiences.
• Contribute to the continuous improvement of Kaufman Hall’s Insights Engine by identifying opportunities to enhance benchmarks, analytical approaches, and underlying data assets.
• Manage assigned project workstreams and deliverables while collaborating effectively across a multidisciplinary team.

Qualifications

The ideal candidate will possess:

• 2-5 years of experience in healthcare consulting, healthcare finance, financial planning, healthcare analytics, benchmarking, strategic planning, or a related field.
• Strong knowledge of health-system financial and operating performance, including the ability to interpret financial statements, operational metrics, performance indicators, and relationships among key measures.
• Demonstrated analytical and problem-solving skills, including the ability to interpret complex data, identify meaningful trends and relationships, develop hypotheses, and draw data-driven conclusions.
• Experience conducting quantitative and qualitative analysis to support business, operational, or financial decision-making.
• Ability to assess the quality, consistency, and reliability of data and identify issues, anomalies, and opportunities for improvement.
• Ability to translate analytical findings into clear observations, insights, and recommendations for both technical and nontechnical audiences.
• Demonstrated project management skills, including the ability to manage multiple priorities, contribute to complex initiatives, and deliver high-quality work in a fast-paced environment.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills and the ability to collaborate effectively with healthcare subject-matter experts, business stakeholders, and technical teams.
• Intellectual curiosity, attention to detail, and a desire to learn new healthcare data sources, methodologies, analytical approaches, and technologies.
• Ability to work independently while seeking guidance appropriately and contributing effectively within a collaborative team environment.
• Advanced proficiency in Microsoft PowerPoint and Excel.
• Applicants for employment must have work authorization that does not now or in the future require sponsorship of a visa for employment authorization in the United States and with Kaufman Hall (i.e., H1-B visa, F-1 visa (OPT), TN visa or any other non-immigrant status)

Education

• Bachelor’s degree required

Physical Requirements 

• Must be able to perform essential duties satisfactorily with reasonable accommodations
• Work is generally done sitting, talking, hearing and typing. Visual acuity to use a keyboard, prepare and analyze data and figures; transcribing, viewing a computer terminal; extensive reading

Work Environment 

• Travel Required: Occasional 0-10%.
• The role is remote (Chicago preferred).
• Work is regularly performed in a home office setting and routinely uses standard office equipment.
• It may require the maintenance of a home office and proximity to an airport for work related travel.

Estimated Hiring Range:

At Vizient, we consider skills, experience, and organizational needs in our compensation approach. Geographic factors may adjust the range estimate and hires typically fall below the top range. Compensation decisions are tailored to individual circumstances. The current salary range for this role is $105,000 to $140,000.

Kaufman Hall is committed to providing equal opportunity for all employees and applicants. We recruit, hire, train, promote, pay, and administer all employment actions without regard to actual and also perceived or assumed protected group status as defined by law of an individual or that individual’s associates or relatives. Our policies and the law prohibit employment discrimination against any employee or applicant on the basis of any legally protected status.

Estimated Hiring Range:

At Vizient, we consider skills, experience, and organizational needs in our compensation approach. Geographic factors may adjust the range estimate and hires typically fall below the top range. Compensation decisions are tailored to individual circumstances. The current salary range for this role is $0.00 to $0.00.

This position is also incentive eligible.

Vizient has a comprehensive benefits plan! Please view our benefits here:

http://www.vizientinc.com/about-us/careers

Equal Opportunity Employer:   Females/Minorities/Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities

The Company is committed to equal employment opportunity to all employees and applicants without regard to race, religion, color, gender identity, ethnicity, age, national origin, sexual orientation, disability status, veteran status or any other category protected by applicable law.