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Managing Consultant/Associate Director - Healthcare Strategy & Innovation

Guidehouse
Home Office: Chicago, IL, United States, United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 13 Nov 2025
💰 $285,000/yr($171,000/yr$285,000/yr)

About the role

Job Family:

Strategy & Transformation Consulting, Strategy & Transformation Consulting (Payer Provider)


Travel Required:

Up to 75%+


Clearance Required:

None

Guidehouse is a global consultancy providing advisory, digital, and managed services to the commercial and public sectors. Guidehouse is purpose-built to serve the national security, financial services, healthcare, energy, and infrastructure industries. Recognized by Forbes as one of the Best Management Consulting Firms for 2024, Guidehouse is disrupting legacy consulting delivery models with its agility, capabilities, and scale, delivering technology-enabled and focused solutions that position clients for innovation, resilience, and growth. With high-quality standards and a relentless pursuit of client success, we at Guidehouse collaborate with leaders to outwit complexity and achieve transformational changes that meaningfully shape the future.

At Guidehouse, you will be part of a growing, talented, inclusive, high-performing community of strategy and healthcare leaders and teams that are focused on bringing competitive, collaborative, and resilient spirit to serving the nation’s healthcare organizations and communities. You will have the opportunity to inspire and be inspired by the change we affect in the industry, the lives we touch, and the impact we drive. You will have a voice and the chance learn, grow, elevate, and thrive in a global firm where values matter, ideas are heard, and aspirations achieved. You can expect that your learning and development matter through the investment Guidehouse makes in your personal and professional growth.

Strategy at Guidehouse works with C-suite executives, business leaders, and boards of directors of the nation’s leading commercial and public sector organizations. With a relentless focus on helping them ‘Outwit Complexity’ facing their industry, business, workforce, consumers, and communities, Strategy helps organizations drive profitable growth, reduce costs, elevate competitive positioning, transform into new performance frontiers, and achieve value-accretive, sustainable outcomes. Our Strategy service line focuses on cutting through the ambiguity, shaping the future, and architecting the transformational pathways for our clients to advance and prosper with resilience.

You are a High Performer. You are a Changemaker. You are Curious. You are Resilient. You are Data-Driven. You are Technology-Centric. You are Value-Obsessed. You are Future-Looking. You are the best of Strategy. As a high-impact, collaborative team player you bring consulting experience in Healthcare Payer/Provider Strategy.

As a Managing Consultant

What You Will Do:

As a Manager, you are a team player, people developer, and strategy practitioner all in one – leading and serving with analytical excellence, strategic dominance, structured-problem solving, and poised planning. Your experiences include (but not limited to) advising and helping Payer/Provider clients execute on strategic planning, business model strategy, operating model strategy / design, competitive agility, enterprise transformation, cost reductions / ZBx, M&A, service line strategy, product strategy, and innovation.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Project Leadership and Execution
  • Advanced Analytics and Problem-Solving
  • Client Relationship Management
  • Team Development and Mentorship
  • Business Development and Practice Development

What You Will Need:

  • Bachelors Degree

  • Minimum of 5 years of consulting or relevant work experience

  • Track record of creative problem-solving, self-motivation, and analytical prowess

  • Ability to demonstrate excellent financial and quantitative analysis skills with experience in business case development and modeling

  • Entrepreneurial spirit in fueling Guidehouse’s growing healthcare practice

  • Ability to demonstrate excellent written and oral communication skills

  • Proficient in PowerBI, Tableau and/or Alteryx

  • Ability to travel as needed; up to 75%


What Would Be Nice To Have:

  • MBA or MHA (MBA highly preferred)

  • Experience in the Healthcare Payer or Provider industry

  • Healthcare Industry affiliations

  • Experience in AI, Cloud, and/or Machine Learning

As an Associate Director

What You Will Do:

As an Associate Director, you are a team player, people developer, and strategy practitioner all in one – leading and serving with analytical excellence, strategic dominance, structured-problem solving, and poised p

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