Strategy Consultant

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Job Description

OVERVIEW

The Strategy Consultant is a critical member of the Jefferson Enterprise Strategy team, which provides routine and on-demand strategic analytics, intelligence, and guidance to support informed, sound business decisions. Jefferson Enterprise Strategy is the entity primarily accountable for managing and facilitating the annual enterprise-wide strategic-financial planning process.

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITY

The Strategy Consultant is expected to meaningfully contribute to multiple projects concurrently and with limited day-to-day oversight.  He/she is responsible for mining and aggregating health care market and utilization data, reliably analyzing data accurately and expeditiously, and identifying strategic relevance of analysis outputs. The Strategy Consultant drafts client-ready strategy deliverables for project manager review and finalization. He/she routinely interacts with project clients to review drafts, present findings, and facilitate select working sessions.

The Strategy Consultant enables successful execution of the annual enterprise-wide Integrated Strategic & Financial Planning [ISFP] process, including supporting scheduling and logistics, creating assessments to support strategy development, and drafting meeting agendas and facilitation materials.                     

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS

• Interacts with co-workers, visitors, and other staff consistent with the values of Jefferson
• Appropriately engages with organizational stakeholders, maintaining the utmost confidentiality on sensitive projects
• Independently manages his/her own workload effectively
• Develops high quality, on-time, draft deliverables on multiple (3+) projects concurrently with limited oversight
• Identifies and documents strategic relevance of data analysis with limited support 
• Supports project management, including direct task oversight & management of analysts on select projects
• Supports business plan development, including process and timeline management, procurement and integration of inputs from stakeholders, creation of displays and visual representations of data; edits and drafts content as appropriate
• Supports the ISFP process (as described above)
• Establishes credibility as a reliable strategic resource with a range of key organizational stakeholders
• Coordinates execution of major routine departmental administrative processes, functions, and initiatives

KEY COMPETENCIES AND EXPECTATIONS

• Strong interpersonal skills
• Strong verbal communication skills; solid presentation skills
• Solid written communication skills in all forms (i.e., concise presentation bulleting and narrative/long-form writing)
• Strong analytic and critical thinking skills
• Demonstrates capacity for effective facilitation; able to facilitate select strategic and business plan development sessions with oversight
• Flexible and creative, able to navigate a fluid environment and think/work “outside of the box”

 EDUCATIONAL & EXPERIENCE REQUIREMENTS

• Bachelor’s degree with business or health care focus and 2 years of experience in a health care planning function with a hospital/health system or as a consultant, OR
• MBA or MHA/MHSA degree with at least 1 year experience in a health care planning function with a hospital/health system or as a consultant (fellowships & internships count toward experience)           

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Primary Location Address

Nationally ranked, Jefferson, which is principally located in the greater Philadelphia region, Lehigh Valley and Northeastern Pennsylvania and southern New Jersey, is reimagining health care and higher education to create unparalleled value. Jefferson is more than 65,000 people strong, dedicated to providing the highest-quality, compassionate clinical care for patients; making our communities healthier and stronger; preparing tomorrow's professional leaders for 21st-century careers; and creating new knowledge through basic/programmatic, clinical and applied research. Thomas Jefferson University, home of Sidney Kimmel Medical College, Jefferson College of Nursing, and the Kanbar College of Design, Engineering and Commerce, dates back to 1824 and today comprises 10 colleges and three schools offering 200+ undergraduate and graduate programs to more than 8,300 students. Jefferson Health, nationally ranked as one of the top 15 not-for-profit health care systems in the country and the largest provider in the Philadelphia and Lehigh Valley areas, serves patients through millions of encounters each year at 32 hospitals campuses and more than 700 outpatient and urgent care locations throughout the region. Jefferson Health Plans is a not-for-profit managed health care organization providing a broad range of health coverage options in Pennsylvania and New Jersey for more than 35 years.    

Jefferson is committed to providing equal educa­tional and employment opportunities for all persons without regard to age, race, color, religion, creed, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, marital status, pregnancy, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, military status, veteran status, handicap or disability or any other protected group or status. 

Benefits

Jefferson offers a comprehensive package of benefits for full-time and part-time colleagues, including medical (including prescription), supplemental insurance, dental, vision, life and AD&D insurance, short- and long-term disability, flexible spending accounts, retirement plans, tuition assistance, as well as voluntary benefits, which provide colleagues with access to group rates on insurance and discounts. Colleagues have access to tuition discounts at Thomas Jefferson University after one year of full time service or two years of part time service. All colleagues, including those who work less than part-time (including per diem colleagues, adjunct faculty, and Jeff Temps), have access to medical (including prescription) insurance.

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