Healthcare Consulting Senior Director - Intelligent Care

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.

At Huron, we help healthcare organizations transform and optimize their operations, partnering with Huron and client leaders to create sustainable solutions that drive meaningful results. As a leader within our Healthcare team, you will lead complex performance improvement engagements, creating high-performing environments and ensuring successful client outcomes. You will play a critical role in leading our team to provide tech-enabled strategies and implement performance improvement tactics to support our clients. This role is ideal for a strategic leader with a data-driven mindset who thrives in a collaborative environment and is passionate about driving change. By deploying intelligent care solutions including virtual nursing, innovative acute care delivery models, and smart hospital design. You will deliver measurable improvements in operational efficiency, clinical quality, patient experience, and financial performance.
Your role will foster a supportive, inclusive environment, empowering team members and creating a workplace where diverse perspectives are valued. You will build strong executive-level relationships, lead change processes, and identify new business opportunities, leveraging Huron's capabilities to meet client objectives. This allows you to make an impact and provides career opportunities both within and beyond your areas of expertise. If you’re passionate about driving impactful solutions and believe in the power of collaboration, Huron offers a rewarding path forward.

As the Healthcare Consulting Senior Director - Intelligent Care, you will:    

• Lead advisory engagements to guide healthcare clients in selecting, designing, and implementing innovative, technology-enabled care solutions that improve operational efficiency and clinical outcomes - including hospital command centers, virtual nursing/acute care delivery models, smart hospital design, clinical workflow automation, capacity management, care orchestration, and remote monitoring 

• Assess hospital and health system technology ecosystems (EHR, data platforms, communication systems, patient flow tools) to identify optimization opportunities, lead rapid cycle gap analyses, and support clients by staying current on EHR functionalities and recommending strategies to maximize existing investments.  

• Support the design and development of data and analytics strategies, including data fluency programs, dashboards, and reporting tools that align with operational leading practices and situational awareness. 

• Evaluate and map current-state clinical operations and digital infrastructure to future-state intelligent care capabilities, and develop actionable digital roadmaps leveraging scenario modeling, predictive analytics, automation, AI/ML, and data analytics to support real-time decision-making and workforce enablement. 

• Collaborate with clinical, IT, and operational stakeholders to identify pain points and co-design solutions that im