Consultant - Decision Analytics - Healthcare (6-9 yrs)

Consultant - Decision Analytics - Healthcare

Job Description:

- Decision Analytics Consultants serve on project teams that deliver high-quality projects to clients. In particular, Consultants combine best-in-class analytic skills with strong problem solving and communication abilities to lead analytical work to help clients solve strategic, tactical, and operational business problems. Consultants may work on multiple projects simultaneously. As Consultants advance in their career, they often specialize in a particular industry, practice area and/or client relationship

Responsibilities:

- Leverage quantitative skills to derive answers to clients' ongoing business analytics and reporting questions.

- Work collaboratively with clients to ascertain the client's specific business information needs.

- Execute a specific plan for analyzing the data necessary to secure solutions to clients' particular business information need(s).

- Discuss and determine with clients which specific data may be best utilized in order to perform the necessary analysis.

- Evaluate, assess and analyze the data necessary to provide solutions to the client's particular business information needs.

- Communicate the data results to the client, with an emphasis on answering the business question as opposed to the analytical and reporting processes used.

- Gain immediate familiarity with client's internal processes.

- Develop expertise within a client analytics area.

- Be available for clients during regular working hours.

What You'll Bring:

- MBA with a bachelor's (and often graduate) degree in a quantitative, analytical discipline, such as Operations Research, Applied Mathematics, Management Science, Data Science, Statistics, Econometrics, or Engineering.

- Alternately, candidates may possess a PhD in marketing, economics, decision sciences or related field with a business application. In lieu of an MBA or PhD, 6-9 years of relevant work experience may substitute.

- Up to 3 years of post-MBA relevant work experience, and 3-5 years of pre-MBA relevant work experience, with evidence of strong analytic work (including use of advanced modeling techniques and tools such as R, SAS, Tableau, or VBA.

- High motivation, good work ethic, maturity and personal initiative.

- Aptitude for, and enjoyment of, leading and managing teams.

- Effective oral and written communication skills that enable personal impact with senior-level decision makers.

- Strong attention to detail, with a quality-focused mindset.

- Analytic problem-solving skills, with a creative and innovative outlook.

- Client service orientation.