Healthcare planner

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Healthcare Planner II & III Consultant/ - Finance Planner

The Innova Group is searching for ambitious, career minded, curious and inquisitive professionals, with an aptitude for learning, to join our team. These professionals will support all aspects of the firm’s consulting services, which include but are not limited to: Clinical Planning and Strategy as well as Capital Planning and Strategy. The work may include the organization, analytics and understanding of healthcare service areas, population demographics, service line demand, operational and financial models, regional service delivery, functional programming, and facility master planning. The most successful candidate will have and demonstrate diverse skills and experience with a blend of data science, medical economics, business case modeling, health care system understanding, capital planning, and storytelling.

The Innova Group is a Healthcare Planning Consultancy with offices and staff in Austin, Boston, Charleston, Charlotte, Chicago, Colorado Springs, Dallas, Minneapolis, Nashville, and Tucson. Since 1995, our multidisciplinary team have been developing innovative strategic capital investment solutions for healthcare systems, both nationally and overseas. We offer a small, entrepreneurial team culture with direct leadership mentoring, training, and involvement.

Our work revolves around strategic capital investment planning for health care systems. These efforts ensure facility projects meet the strategic, financial, and operational goals of the organization— setting the table for architectural design, real estate acquisition and leasing processes. The Innova Group provides these services to large private systems such as Kaiser Permanente and Providence, academic medical centers such as Yale New Haven Health, community hospitals, and public sector systems such as the Military Health Service, Indian Health Service, and Veterans Affairs. More information on our firm is available at

Compensation will be based on experience and qualifications.

Salary Range: $80,000-120,000

The Innova Group is searching for a qualified Healthcare Consultant/Finance Planner to join our multi-disciplinary planning team and support all aspects of project research, analysis, and deliverable development. The successful candidate will analyze, assist, and develop innovative planning solutions for strategic, operational and facility planning issues for an array of clinical service lines and/or facility types with healthcare system clients. The most successful candidate will demonstrate skills and experience in a blend of:

· Ability to interpret and analyze financial statements

· Experience in developing financial models

· Capital planning

· Demographic analysis

· Healthcare provider market demand analytics

· Capacity demand/ Service line planning

· Strategic planning

· Project management

· Business development analytics/support

The Innova Group is a Healthcare Planning Consultancy with offices and staff in Austin, Boston, Dallas, Denver, Minneapolis, Nashville, Portland, St. Louis, and Tucson. Since 1995, we have been developing innovative solutions in healthcare strategy, operations, and facility planning, both nationally and overseas. We offer a small, entrepreneurial team culture with direct leadership mentoring, training, and involvement.

We work primarily on the “pre-design” portion of a capital investment project to build healthcare facilities —working with clients to ensure the project meets strategic, financial, and operational goals— setting the table for architectural design and real estate acquisition process. The Innova Group is a source of strategic healthcare planning and implementation services for large private systems such as Kaiser Permanente and Dignity Health, academic medical centers such as the University of New Mexico, community hospitals, and public sector systems such as the Military Health Service, Indian Health Service, and Veterans Affairs. More information on our firm is available at

Salary Range : dependent upon experience/qualifications - market rates

Job Description

· Acquire, validatevalidate, and analyze data from multiple sources to be utilized in modeling healthcare delivery and developing operational alternatives for healthcare systems, hospitals and ambulatory networks. Common sets of data include:

o Demographic data

o Patient-level financial data

o Financial statements

o Medical claims data

o Provider-level productivity and financial data

o Benchmarks (health care utilization rates, physician productivity, etc.)

· Forecast healthcare utilization through trend analysis and extrapolationextrapolation.

· Interpret and analyze financial statements.

· Develop financial models to forecast the impact of strategic and service line planning projectsprojects.

· Present and display data, analysis and findings to help clients make decisions through dashboarding and other data visualization applications

· Demonstrate expertise utilizing healthcare strategy, planning metrics and emerging trends to define operational processes and resource requirements (capacity, providers, staff, and space)

· Develop presentations and other written materials to communicate analyses, key conceptsconcepts, and recommendations to a diverse stakeholder group.

Qualifications and Experience Required

· Bachelor’s degree required in . Healthcare, Business, Economics, Applied Mathematics, or other similar data/analysis intensive major.

· Graduate work in Master’s degree required in one of the following programs: Healthcare Administration, Business, or Health Policy seen favorably., or Industrial Engineering.

· 1-25 years of healthcare experience in related Innova core sectors (healthcare strategy, facility planning, operations, financial planning)

· Knowledge of healthcare services, delivery models, data sets, HCPCS, DRG and ICD codes and facility, finance and/or operation related planning metrics

· Problem seeker/problem solving skills.

· Team player

· Ability to create/communicate relevant solutions to complex problems.

· Ability to create/communicate relevant solutions to complex problems through statistical modeling and data extrapolation

Ability to tell a story clearly and persuasively

Demonstrated team player, mentoring and/or leadership skills

Technical Skills Considered

· MS Office: Outlook, Word, PowerPoint, and Excel (Pivot tables, complex formulas, conditional formatting)

· Alteryx, Tableau, Bluebeam

· Business Intelligence Tools

o Tableau, Alteryx,

o Power Bi,

o SQL (preferred capability)

Benefits/Travel/Work

This position Is being offered at our Tucson office located at 5255 E. Williams Circle, Suite 6000. We offer paid vacation, healthcare, healthcare savings account, 401K, and profit-sharing benefits. Travel is project based and flexible variable but is typically less than 5 nights per month for this position. This position Is being offered at our Tucson office located at 5255 E. Williams Circle, Suite.

Application Requirements & Contact Info

Please submit resumes with a cover letter to

A cover letter is required and should clearly identify your career goal, your rationale for applying, a summary of your education and past work experience, and why you are a good fit for the position. Resumes submitted without cover letters will not be reviewed.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or national origin.

· When attaching your resume and cover letter, please use following filename style: " last name_first name_resume.doc/pdf " and " last name_first name_cover.doc/pdf " (for example, if your name was Chris Miller and you were submitting a pdf file, your resume would be saved as "miller_chris_resume.pdf", and your cover letter would be saved/submitted as "miller_chris_cover.pdf".

· The Innova Group does not pay candidates for travel expenses associated with interviewing, unless otherwise indicated at the time of the initial phone interview.The Innova Group does not pay candidates for travel expenses associated with interviewing, unless otherwise indicated at the time of call for interview.

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: $80,000.00 - $120,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• 401(k) matching
• Dental insurance
• Health insurance
• Health savings account
• Paid time off
• Vision insurance

Experience level:

• 5 years

Schedule:

• Monday to Friday
• Weekends as needed

Ability to Relocate:

• Tucson, AZ 85711: Relocate before starting work (Required)

Work Location: In person