Consulting Director - Surgical Services/PPI

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Summary:

In this role, you will lead complex consulting engagements that improve performance across Surgical Services, with a focus on Physician Preference Items (PPI). You will apply deep subject-matter expertise, structured problem solving, data interpretation, and consultative judgment to identify improvement opportunities, shape evidence-based strategies, influence senior client decisions, and deliver measurable clinical, operational, and financial outcomes. You will guide engagements from discovery through implementation, serve as a trusted advisor to senior healthcare leaders, and strengthen consulting capabilities through mentorship, thought leadership, and continuous improvement of consulting solutions.

Responsibilities:

• Lead complex Surgical Services and PPI consulting engagements from discovery through implementation, including scope definition, stakeholder alignment, analytic review, recommendation development, and value realization.

• Conduct structured discovery, stakeholder interviews, and current-state assessments to clarify business challenges, identify performance gaps, validate root causes, and define improvement opportunities.

• Plan and oversee analytic work that integrates clinical, operational, financial, and supply chain data to generate strategic insights, quantify opportunities, and support actionable recommendations.

• Develop evidence-based strategies and business cases that improve cost efficiency, reduce clinical variation, strengthen operational performance, and advance patient care quality.

• Design client-specific implementation roadmaps, governance structures, change management approaches, and adoption strategies that support sustainable performance improvement.

• Manage complex consulting workplans, priorities, timelines, budgets, resources, risks, dependencies, and deliverables to achieve expected client value.

• Facilitate executive-level and cross-functional working sessions that align clinical, operational, financial, and supply chain leaders around priorities, trade-offs, decisions, and implementation actions.

• Serve as a trusted advisor to senior and C-suite client leaders by synthesizing complex information, framing strategic options and implications, influencing decisions, and recommending paths forward.

• Build and maintain trusted senior-level client relationships to understand strategic priorities, shape engagement direction, and strengthen commitment to recommended actions.

• Establish success measures, monitor progress against expected outcomes, and communicate performance improvement and value realization throughout the engagement lifecycle.

• Guide sustainable implementation and adoption of Vizient tools, technologies, analytics, and supporting resources in collaboration with client teams.

• Mentor less experienced consultants on data analysis, interpretation, storytelling, consulting methodologies, client facilitation, and application of advanced techniques and best practices.

• Advance consulting practice capabilities by improving products, services, tools, and methodologies; developing and applying reusable intellectual capital and case studies; contributing thought leadership; and collaborating with Spend Management and cross-functional teams to strengthen consulting offerings.

Qualifications:

• Relevant degree preferred. Clinical degree preferred.

• 7 or more years of relevant experience required.

• Service line management experience in surgical services or perioperative departments required.

• Advanced proficiency in Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and AI-enabled productivity tools required.

• Proven ability to analyze financial, operational, and quality data and translate findings into actionable performance improvement strategies.

• Strong consulting, structured problem-solving, project leadership, and change management skills.

• Exceptional verbal, written, presentation, and facilitation skills with the ability to influence senior and executive-level clients.

• Ability to work independently while effectively leading and collaborating across cross-functional teams.

• Ability to travel regularly and expeditiously throughout the year to meet clients’ needs and timetables.

Estimated Hiring Range:

This position is also incentive eligible.

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