Lead, Healthcare Strategic Initiatives and Program Management, Director, Internal Rotational 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.

As an individual focused on strategy, initiative management, and implementation, the Director, Healthcare Strategic Initiatives and Program Management role will have the ability to help shape the future of the healthcare industry at Huron. Reporting to the Chief of Staff for Healthcare, this role will manage strategic projects, support business planning, oversee operational tasks, coordinate with various teams and stakeholders, and drive communication efforts within the Healthcare industry. This role encompasses strategic, operational, and managerial responsibilities while aligning with the broader objectives of the Healthcare industry at Huron.

The role is an 18–24-month program rotation, partnering with the Healthcare Chief of Staff and Healthcare Portfolio Strategy and Management (HPSM) team to drive strategic priorities and day-to-day activities. In this role, the individual will gain firsthand experience working with senior leaders and contribute in many ways to the advancement and growth of our business.

A key driver of the growth contributions will come by also supporting our HPSM team through various initiatives that advance our capabilities and support our vendor partnerships. This may include direct supervision from a HPSM leader for special initiatives / projects.

Position Details:

Project Management

Serve as a Project Manager for reoccurring healthcare meetings which includes agenda ideation, content collation, meeting minutes, and resulting action plans

Manage regular Operating Committee discussions – identify agenda topics and discussion items to bring forward – whether to the OC as a whole or individually

Manage multiple priorities independently to effectively and efficiently drive work forward in an organized fashion

Support Chief of Staff in annual budget projections for various healthcare initiatives

Business Planning & Strategy

Drive the development of strategic projects, such as capability advancements, new technologies, partnership relationships, and potential acquisitions

Assist in managing strategic and organizational change by guiding Huron Healthcare employees through transitions, ensuring buy-in, and addressing resistance

Identify and escalate potential risks to strategic initiatives and develop strategies to mitigate those risks. Assess and monitor risk factors on a routine basis.

Aggregate performance reports, key performance indicators (KPIs), etc., to provide valuable data insights to inform strategic decisions

Act as a strategic partner with senior business leaders to develop and/or refresh Healthcare strategy annually – facilitating discussion and alignment across multiple stages as needed in concert with key areas like Healthcare Portfolio Strategy Management (HPSM), PIBSS, HR Strategy Leads, HC Finance & Operations, and other Enterprise teams

Support the Healthcare Operating Committee (OC) assess and design the operating model for Healthcare – reviewing and modifying annually as needed. This includes defining and/or refreshing governance and communication structures 

Collaborate with Chief of Staff, HPSM team members, and others to understand business challenges, propose solutions and approaches to ensure results align with Huron Healthcare’s business objectives

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