Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Leavitt Partners provides consulting and client services. The Principal delivers expertise and advice to improve publicly funded healthcare organizations’ operations, profitability, management, structure, and strategy, while managing client relationships and projects. The role also leads teams, mentors staff, supports business development, and contributes to strategic and operational objectives.
Responsibilities
- Performs business development activities to expand funded work from existing clients or new clients
- Develops and maintains a pipeline of future work that demonstrates a likelihood of achieving business development requirements in future periods
- Both lead and participate in proposal development and submission
- Meets with client to understand requirements
- Gathers and organizes information about the issue to be solved or the procedure to be improved
- Analyzes data to identify and understand issues to be addressed
- Presents findings to clients
- Provides advice, implementation plans, and/or suggestions for improvement according to project objectives
- Evaluates the client’s needs as warranted and adjusts as appropriate
- Ensures that all deliverables are high quality
- Serves as subject matter expert on projects
- Undertakes internal and external short-term or long-term projects to address identified issues and needs
- Develop and document tools, analysis, frameworks, tracking tools, road maps, dashboards, and other approaches to manage a variety of large and small projects
- Leads and manages teams, provides feedback and development, and advances internal initiatives
- Serves as a mentor for other staff members, as requested
- Ensures performance meets or exceeds HMA expectations in the following areas:
- Business development
- Billable hour target attainment
- Manages to budget/project caps established at the outset or assists in negotiating additional fees
- Meets quality and operational standards
- Completes and submits timesheets, expense reports, revenue forecasts, and other internal reports when due
- Participates in and completes all HMA training and development requirements in a timely manner
- Participates in internal activities related to business strategies, forecasts, adoption of new technologies/platforms/approaches, and other process improvements
- All other duties as assigned
Skills
- Minimum of a bachelor's degree in health policy, business management, public health, or a related discipline is required
- Equivalent work experience in lieu of a bachelor's degree, although not desired, may be determined as acceptable
- Minimum of 15 years of progressively increasing prior leadership or management experience in work involving publicly funded healthcare including, but not limited to policy, administration, operations, compliance, research, consulting, and/or evaluation
- * Strong project management skills
- * Solid time management skills
- * Excellent internal and excellent professional networking skills
- * Excellent attention to detail
- * Excellent critical thinking skills
- * Exceptional oral and written communication skills
- * Superior interpersonal skills, including leadership, contribution to culture, and acceptance of accountability
- * Ability to multi-task and adhere to strict deadlines
- * Capable of handling confidential information in a discrete manner
- * Ability to work extended hours when deadlines are approaching
- * Demonstrated thought leadership and deep expertise in more than one critical healthcare area
- * Maintains approach to stay current in trends in areas of subject matter expertise
- This role requires frequent travel to client sites and HMA offices
- A Master's degree in a related discipline is strongly preferred
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