Strategy, Vice President – Consulting

Title: Vice President, Strategy
The Organization
We help society’s foundational institutions—healthcare and higher education—to achieve their full potential in service to others.
We are our clients’ trusted partners in ever-changing times. For more than 30 years, Kaufman Hall has provided independent, 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 management consulting in strategic financial planning (a concept we created); performance improvement; partnerships, mergers, and acquisitions; and treasury and capital markets. Kaufman Hall’s consulting is supported by a deep foundation of benchmarking and software tools.
At Kaufman Hall, we believe that sustained success is never an accident. It is the result of sound decision making, based on data-driven analysis and disciplined thinking, and guided by the fundamental principles of corporate finance.
Position Summary
Kaufman, Hall & Associates, LLC, is seeking a Vice President to lead healthcare strategy consulting engagements in the Strategy and Business Transformation practice. The Vice President in the Strategy and Business Transformation Practice will work closely with Managing Directors and Senior Vice Presidents on client engagements, providing strategic and financial-related services to our clients. In short order, the successful candidate will be expected to lead client engagements with minimal oversight. The Vice President will be fully capable of presenting to senior management teams and boards and be able to drive the organization to decisions around critical issues, simultaneously managing multiple client engagements with a variety of staff.
Responsibilities include:

• Demonstrating a detailed understanding of the health care industry (including historic and contemporary issues pertaining to providers, payment and policy) with the ability to communicate complicated concepts to a variety of clients
• Leading the development of Kaufman Hall assignments including research on the evolving nature of specific markets, developmentof enterprise wide strategies for health systems, assessment of growth strategies and strategic options in consolidating markets, and creation of service distribution plans
• Creating analytical frameworks to support key questions facing our clients including assessment of organizational positioning across key dimensions such as quality, cost, access and competitive positions
• Providing excellent project management to ensure successful outcomes from both Kaufman Hall and our clients’ perspectives
• Expanding thought leadership at Kaufman Hall and within the healthcare industry through the creation of intellectual capital
• Fully comprehending the Kaufman Hall business model
• Playing a key role in the professional development of Kaufman Hall staff, particularly in the strategy practice – ranging from Analyst, Associate, Senior Associate, and Assistant Vice President, and leading their success and outcomes on engagements.
• Support and lead other internal projects as directed

Qualifications
In addition, the successful candidate will possess the following:

• 10 + years of experience in a consulting role focused on the healthcare provider market
• Ability to manage a diverse set of projects including organizational planning, partnership evaluation, physician strategy, etc.
• Understand and communicate key elements of a health system’s financial position and performance
• Strong facilitation skills both within organizations (e.g., with Board, management, and physician leaders) and across organizations (e.g., partnership discussions among multiple entities)
• Excellent analytical skills and the ability to develop and evaluate business and financial projections
• Demonstrable project management experience in a fast-paced environment
• Ability to manage 3 - 5simultaneous engagements within the practice
• Excellent presentation and communication skills at the senior executive and board levels
• Solid technical and analytical computer skills, including excellent Microsoft Word, PowerPoint and Excel software skills
• Willingness to travel approximately 50% of the time
• Applicants for employment must have work authorization that does not now or in the future require sponsorship of a visa for employment authorization in the United States and with Kaufman Hall (i.e., H1-B visa, F-1 visa (OPT), TN visa or any other non-immigrant status).

Education - Bachelor’s degree required, MBA or advanced degree in Healthcare 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: Moderate, 50%
• The role is ideally based in Chicago (hybrid) but we are open to candidates in other cities.
• 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.