The Opportunity

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.

Position Summary

Senior Directors represent the pinnacle of consulting success…At Huron Senior Directors create a high-performance environment—inspiring the respect of clients and engagement teams alike. Through strong leadership and unmatched industry expertise, they ensure Huron’s success—and shape the industry as a whole. They model and instill in others Huron values as well as personal commitment and integrity.

Another key function Senior Directors carry out is to serve as engagement leaders—working closely with client senior leaders and directing the Huron team - ensuring the overall success of the project. They successfully close new business, deliver sales and industry presentations, participate in negotiations, and close contracts for new work. They also cultivate lasting, trusted advisor business relationships which bring forth positive references—and that translates to new revenue.

The roles Senior Directors play require considerable responsibility and—as a result—offer great personal reward.

True excellence begins at the top…with leaders dedicated to producing lasting, positive results. Let’s get to work – together.

Qualifications

REQUIRED SKILLS:

Ability to serve as the single accountable leader in the design and delivery of our most complex performance improvement engagements by creating collaborative, high performing work environments while continually addressing issues, removing barriers, and ensuring successful team and client outcomes

Significant experiencesuccessfully managing engagement-wide economics, such as budgets, revenue forecasting, margins, invoicing, and billing

Proven analytical and critical thinking skills required toeffectively quantify financial and operational benefits for performance improvement initiatives, identify risks to achieving projected outcomes, and developand implement solutions to address data gaps or risks

Exceptional verbal communication and listening skills to understand client challenges, create customized solutions to achieve their business objectives, and manage client expectations around benefits and deliverables; proven written communication skills needed to develop presentations and business proposalsand deliver those with impact to key executive stakeholders

Proven success in building strong executive-level and C-suite relationships while leading a multi-faceted change process; demonstratedbroad-based change management expertise and extensive experience positively influencing change in a variety of complex environments with multiple stakeholders and competing priorities

Strong business development experience in using networks and existing relationships to identifynew sales opportunities based upon Huron’s broad set of capabilities, designing solutions that meet new and existing client business objectives, and effectively articulating value and return on investment in order close new business

Demonstrated experience in leading and designing large matrixed teams. Leadership experience includingrole expectations and development, team and culture building, coaching/mentoring, and accountability for the performance managementof the team at director and below level

Demonstrated ability to build and maintain an extensive professional networkinternally and externally, recognize opportunities to enhance and expand executive level relationships, and identify business development opportunities that align with Huron’s broad set of capabilities

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

The ability to contribute on multiple projects of differing scale and duration

Proficient in Microsoft office (Word, PowerPoint, Excel)

Direct Supervisory experiences of both individuals and large, complex teams

10+ years of consulting and/or healthcare operations experience

Preferred experience in a matrixed organization

PREFERRED EXPERIENCE:

Relevant hospital revenue cycle experience directing a major revenue cycle department and/or team-based projects with a focus on process re-engineering/performance improvement initiatives and broad-based change management, OR

Senior project leadership and complex design and implementation experience within a consulting firm setting with a focus on hospital or physician revenue cycle, denials management, and/or patient access services

The estimated base salary range for this job is $215,000 - $265,000. The range represents a good faith estimate of the range that Huron reasonably expects to pay for this job at the time of the job posting. The actual salary paid to an individual will vary based on multiple factors, including but not limited to specific skills or certifications, years of experience, market changes, and required travel. This job is also eligible to participate in Huron’s annual incentive compensation program, which reflects Huron’s pay for performance philosophy. Inclusive of annual incentive compensation opportunity, the total estimated compensation range for this job is $268,750 - $350,750. The job is also eligible to participate in Huron’s benefit plans which include medical, dental and vision coverage and other wellness programs. The salary range information provided is in accordance with applicable state and local laws regarding salary transparency that are currently in effect and may be implemented in the future.

Posting Category

Healthcare

Opportunity Type

Regular

Country

United States of America

At Huron, we’re redefining what a consulting organization can be. We go beyond advice to deliver results that last. We inherit our client’s challenges as if they were our own. We help them transform for the future. We advocate. We make a difference. And we intelligently, passionately, relentlessly do great work…together.

Are you the kind of person who stands ready to jump in, roll up your sleeves and transform ideas into action? Then come discover Huron.

Whether you have years of experience or come right out of college, we invite you to explore our many opportunities. Find out how you can use your talents and develop your skills to make an impact immediately. Learn about how our culture and values provide you with the kind of environment that invites new ideas and innovation. Come see how we collaborate with each other in a culture of learning, coaching, diversity and inclusion. And hear about our unwavering commitment to make a difference in partnership with our clients, shareholders, communities and colleagues.

Huron Consulting Group offers a competitive compensation and benefits package including medical, dental, and vision coverage to employees and dependents; a 401(k) plan with a generous employer match; an employee stock purchase plan; a generous Paid Time Off policy; and paid parental leave and adoption assistance. Our Wellness Program supports employee total well-being by providing free annual health screenings and coaching, bank at work, and on-site workshops, as well as ongoing programs recognizing major events in the lives of our employees throughout the year. All benefits and programs are subject to applicable eligibility requirements.

Huron is fully committed to providing equal employment opportunity to job applicants and employees in recruitment, hiring, employment, compensation, benefits, promotions, transfers, training, and all other terms and conditions of employment. Huron will not discriminate on the basis of age, race, color, gender, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, pregnancy, national origin, religion, veteran status, physical or mental disability, genetic information, creed, citizenship or any other status protected by laws or regulations in the locations where we do business. We endeavor to maintain a drug-free workplace.