Managing Consultant, Strategy

Welcome to Ovation Healthcare!

At Ovation Healthcare, we’ve been making local healthcare better for more than 40 years. Our mission is to strengthen independent community healthcare. We provide independent hospitals and health systems with the support, guidance and tech-enabled shared services needed to remain strong and viable. With a strong sense of purpose and commitment to operating excellence, we help rural healthcare providers fulfill their missions.

The Ovation Healthcare difference is the extraordinary combination of operations experience and consulting guidance that fulfills our mission of creating a sustainable future for healthcare organizations. Ovation Healthcare's vision is to be a dynamic, integrated professional services company delivering innovative and executable solutions through experience and thought leadership, while valuing trust, respect, and customer focused behavior.

We’re looking for talented, motivated professionals with a desire to help independent hospitals thrive. Working with Ovation Healthcare you will have the opportunity to collaborate with highly skilled subject matter specialists and operations executives, in a collegial atmosphere of professionalism and teamwork.

Ovation Healthcare's corporate headquarters is located in Brentwood, TN. For more information, visit https://ovationhc.com.

The Managing Consultant will focus primarily on the assessment and implementation of sustainable strategic solutions to hospitals, health systems, and physician practices.  Assist clients in the identification of market dynamics while assessing internal factors impacting strategic success.  Serve as the project leader on client engagements, manage multiple team members to ensure all tasks are completed on time and within budget.  Lead and participate in the analysis of data from clients and external sources and synthesize findings towards the development of client strategy.  Contribute to the on-going training and development of senior consultants, consultants, and associate consultants while driving the practice towards consistent improvement.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Actively leads the team and project activities while producing client ready deliverables.

• Assists project executive in managing client expectations in line with budget and project objectives.

• Assists project executive in managing quality of the team's work product and interacts directly with client contacts on engagement issues.

• Manages day to day client relationships while ensuring client expectations are in line with budget and project objectives.

• Anticipates and manages scope and budget issues while helping the team set and achieves project goals.

• Expands relationships within the client organization.

• Establishes a work plan, resource needs and recommends appropriate methodologies, tools, and resources to optimize project profitability.

• Partners with team to develop strategy deliverables, including market data analytics, assessment of client competitive positioning, and broader landscape insights.

• Ability to deliver client reports within 30 days of a client meeting.

• Performs other duties as assigned.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Superior written and verbal communication skills

• Excellent quantitative analysis skills

• Demonstrated excellence in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, as well as the ability to conduct research

• Track record of efficiency, flexibility, creative problem-solving, self-motivated, analytical and highly organized

• Proven ability to work independently, as well as collaboratively within team structures

Work Experience, Education, and Certifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in business, management, health policy and/or administration required (Master’s degree preferred)

• 5+ years of previous work experience in a healthcare consulting firm or a combination of healthcare industry and consulting experience

• Experience in strategic planning, service line strategy, and/or health system partnerships

• Provider-side experience in a health system, hospital and/or medical group strategy and advisement

• Ability to collaborate with clinical, operational, and technological leaders of the organization to enhance our programs and solutions as a population health operating partner.

• Solid background in broad-based provider complex business modeling, medical group/health system strategy and financial modeling

• Project and/or program management experience. Capacity to manage multiple work streams, work under pressure and meet deadlines in a disciplined, structured manner

Travel Requirements:

• Ability to travel up to 60%