Healthcare Consulting Director - Clinical Documentation & Coding

Huron helps its clients drive growth, enhance performance and sustain leadership in the markets they serve. We help healthcare organizations build innovation capabilities and accelerate key growth initiatives, enabling organizations to own the future, instead of being disrupted by it. Together, we empower clients to create sustainable growth, optimize internal processes and deliver better consumer outcomes.

Health systems, hospitals and medical clinics are under immense pressure to improve clinical outcomes and reduce the cost of providing patient care. Investing in new partnerships, clinical services and technology is not enough to create meaningful and substantive change. To succeed long-term, healthcare organizations must empower leaders, clinicians, employees, affiliates and communities to build cultures that foster innovation to achieve the best outcomes for patients.

Joining the Huron team means you’ll help our clients evolve and adapt to the rapidly changing healthcare environment and optimize existing business operations, improve clinical outcomes, create a more consumer-centric healthcare experience, and drive physician, patient and employee engagement across the enterprise.

Join our team as the expert you are now and create your future.

At Huron, Directors represent the pinnacle of professionalism and expertise. They effectively collaborate with Huron and client senior leaders to design and implement complex and sustainable solutions while delivering remarkable results for our clients that often exceed engagement objectives. Throughout their projects, they develop enduring client relationships that benefit the firm in profound ways including networking, ongoing business development, and sales opportunities.

Their talents and leadership qualities instill passion and trust in clients, junior staff members, and Huron management. If you can lead teams, create customized solutions, and masterfully communicate on every level…If you’re a consummate professional, a prospective champion of integrity and excellence, and an inspiration of confidence and trust… then you can and will—leave your mark on the future of consulting. Create your future at Huron.

As the Healthcare Consulting Director in Clinical Documentation & Coding you will:  

• Lead complex performance improvement engagements, creating collaborative, high-performing environments and ensuring successful client outcomes.

• Manage engagement-wide economics, including budgets, revenue forecasting, margins, invoicing, and billing.

• Apply analytical and critical thinking skills to quantify benefits, identify risks, and develop solutions for performance improvement initiatives.

• Communicate effectively to understand client challenges, create customized solutions, and manage client expectations, delivering impactful presentations and proposals.

• Build strong executive-level relationships, lead change processes, and identify new business opportunities, leveraging Huron's capabilities to meet client objectives.

Requirements:   

• Bachelor’s degree required

• Minimum of 8 years of relevant experience, including at least 5 years of progressive healthcare management consulting experience. A combination of consulting and senior leadership roles within provider organizations may be considered, but strong healthcare consulting experience is essential.

• Extensive healthcare inpatient documentation experience

• Extensive experience managing major projects for large, complex healthcare organizations with multiple stakeholders

• Demonstrated executive-level presence with the ability to manage client relationships, provide strategic insights, contribute to methodology development, and lead continuous solution advancement.

• The ability to travel based on client, enterprise, or project needs is an essential function of this role. While travel requirements may vary based on business need, the current average travel in the Healthcare practice is less than 50%, annually.

• Direct Supervisory experiences of both individuals and large, complex teams

• Proficiency in Microsoft Office (Word, PowerPoint, Excel)

• US Work Authorization required

Preferences:  

• Master's degree or equivalent experience

• Experience in a matrixed organization or cross-functional team environment 

Position Level

Director

Country

United States of America