2026 Kaufman Hall Analyst Program - SBT Analyst

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When you’re the best, we’re the best. We instill an environment where employees feel engaged, satisfied and able to contribute their unique skills and talents while living and working as their authentic selves. We provide extensive opportunities for personal and professional development, building both employee competence and organizational capability to fuel exceptional performance through an inclusive environment both now and in the future.

2026 Kaufman Hall Analyst Program - Strategy and Business Transformation Analyst

Location: Chicago

Start Date: August 2026

Kaufman Hall

We help society’s healthcare organizations (hospitals and health systems) to achieve their full potential in service to others. 

We are our clients’ trusted partners in ever-changing times. For 40 years, Kaufman Hall has provided independent healthcare consulting and objective insights grounded in sound data and analysis to help clients fulfill their missions, achieve their goals, and tackle their toughest problems. 

Kaufman Hall provides world-class healthcare consulting for our healthcare providers across the country, with services including: Revenue & Operations Improvement, Strategy & Business Transformation, Mergers & Acquisitions, Financial Planning, and Treasury & Capital Markets. 

The Position:

Kaufman Hall is seeking an Analyst to join the Strategy and Business Transformation team as part of the 2026 Kaufman Hall Analyst Program. The Strategy practice helps define our healthcare clients’ enterprise strategy, align organizational design and operations with strategic goals, facilitate strategic partnerships, and link strategic vision to measurable financial objectives.

The Strategy practice is seeking self-motivated, intellectually curious professionals with a genuine interest in healthcare to join our 2026 Kaufman Hall Analyst Program. This program provides Analysts interested in solving complex business problems, identifying differentiation strategies, and being a trusted advisor the opportunity to work with our enterprise-level healthcare clients to help solve some of their most pressing issues. During the course of the Analyst Program, Analysts will be staffed on client engagements and support the delivery of strategic, financial, and operational-related services to our clients, working alongside Associates, Senior Associates, AVPs, VPs, SVPs, and Managing Directors. 

Following an initial three-week training and onboarding period of intensive classroom training on the current healthcare landscape (Healthcare 101) and core skills (Excel, PowerPoint, Power BI), Analysts will be staffed on multiple client engagements. 

Primary Responsibilities: 

• Supporting multiple Strategy engagements at any given time 

• Creating and applying industry-leading solutions to the most challenging strategic and organizational issues facing our clients 

• Developing, analyzing, and interpreting advanced client data Excel models 

• Keeping apprised of projects to ensure critical milestones are met, timelines are adhered to, and changes are properly communicated 

• Assisting practice with development of internal documents / business development tasks

• Scheduling client meetings, drafting agendas, taking and circulating meeting notes, and fulfilling other client management support roles

• Building presentations and completed work product to be presented to clients and Board members 

• Supporting the needs of the practice beyond client-specific work as required 

• Delivering high quality work with integrity

Qualifications:

We are seeking highly motivated individuals with a strong history of academic excellence and leadership, personally and professionally. In addition, the successful candidate will possess the following attributes: 

• Highly intelligent and intellectually curious 

• Excellent analytical and quantitative skills

• Self-motivated; ability to take initiative on assigned project components 

• Solid technical and analytical computer skills including proficiency in Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, Word, and other analytical tools

• Excellent interpersonal skills and good presentation skills

• A career-motivated professional who is energetic and possesses a superb work ethic

• A high degree of integrity and strong moral and ethical standards

• Current Permanent US Work Authorization Required 

• Willingness and ability to travel, sometimes on short notice, up to 80% of the time

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree from a top tier University with a concentration in business, finance, accounting, analytics, economics and/or healthcare administration is strongly preferred 

Physical requirements: 

• Must be able to perform essential duties satisfactorily with reasonable accommodations.

• Work is generally done sitting, talking, hearing and typing. Visual acuity to use a keyboard, prepare and analyze data and figures; transcribing, viewing a computer terminal; extensive reading.

 Work Environment 

• Travel Required: 5 – 25%.

• The role is based in Chicago 

• Work is regularly performed in a combination of office, home office, and client settings, and routinely uses standard office equipment.

• It may require the maintenance of a home office and proximity to an airport for work related travel.

Kaufman Hall is committed to providing equal opportunity for all employees and applicants. We recruit, hire, train, promote, pay, and administer all employment actions without regard to actual and also perceived or assumed protected group status as defined by law of an individual or that individual’s associates or relatives. Our policies and the law prohibit employment discrimination against any employee or applicant on the basis of any legally protected status.

Estimated Hiring Range:

This position is also incentive eligible.

Vizient has a comprehensive benefits plan! Please view our benefits here:

http://www.vizientinc.com/about-us/careers

Equal Opportunity Employer:   Females/Minorities/Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities

The Company is committed to equal employment opportunity to all employees and applicants without regard to race, religion, color, gender identity, ethnicity, age, national origin, sexual orientation, disability status, veteran status or any other category protected by applicable law.

Estimated Hiring Range:

This position is also incentive eligible.

Vizient has a comprehensive benefits plan! Please view our benefits here:

http://www.vizientinc.com/about-us/careers

Equal Opportunity Employer:   Females/Minorities/Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities

The Company is committed to equal employment opportunity to all employees and applicants without regard to race, religion, color, gender identity, ethnicity, age, national origin, sexual orientation, disability status, veteran status or any other category protected by applicable law.