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Healthcare Consulting Senior Director - Business Transformation

Huron Consulting · Chicago, IL · $215,000–$265,000 a year · Full time

Posted Jun 5, 2026 · We last checked this listing on Oct 6, 2026

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About your past

Tell me about the largest business transformation you've led for a health system. What changed, and how did you know?

What they are checking: Whether they have led enterprise-scale change with measurable outcomes, not just advised on it.

How do you create a high-performance culture on a project team that's working long hours away from home?

What they are checking: Whether they lead teams in a way that earns respect and keeps people performing without burning out.

Walk me through how you've built and closed a significant piece of new business.

What they are checking: Whether they can originate and sell work, which is central at senior director level.

Tell me about a time an engagement went poorly. What did you learn and change?

What they are checking: Whether they are honest about failure and show real learning, not a polished non-answer.

How do you develop directors and managers into future leaders of the practice?

What they are checking: Whether they invest in the next generation of leaders, which sustains a consulting practice.

What would you do

A health system has thin margins and the board wants a cost and growth plan in ninety days. How would you approach it?

What they are checking: Whether they can structure a high-stakes, time-bound transformation with clear priorities and governance.

How do you get physicians and clinical leaders to support operational changes that affect their work?

What they are checking: Whether they understand physician engagement, which decides whether healthcare transformations succeed.

Midway through, a new CEO arrives and questions the whole program. How do you respond?

What they are checking: Whether they can re-earn sponsorship and adapt the plan when client leadership changes.

About the work

How do you set up a transformation management office so initiatives deliver what they promised?

What they are checking: Whether they know how to track benefits, owners and milestones so savings are real and verified.

What trends are putting the most pressure on health system operations right now, and where do you see the best opportunities?

What they are checking: Whether they have a current, informed view of the market that clients would pay to hear.

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The full job description

As published by Huron Consulting.

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, Senior Directors create a high-performance culture and environment – inspiring the respect of our project teams and executive clients alike in their role as the accountable engagement leader. Our Senior Directors are responsible for architecting leading-edge solutions for our clients that meet and exceed their most complex business needs. Through impeccable leadership and unmatched industry expertise, our Senior Directors ensure the success of our multi-faceted client engagements which bring forth positive references and translates to new revenue. Through trusted client relationships, they effectively identify and cultivate continued areas of opportunity for our clients driving future business and success for Huron. Our Senior Directors successfully generate new business opportunities, deliver sales and industry presentations, participate in negotiations, and close contracts for new work. Our Senior Directors seek to shape the healthcare industry with new concepts and delivery models. They model and instill in others our Huron values as well as personal commitment and integrity. True excellence begins at the top with leaders dedicated to producing lasting, positive results for our clients. REQUIRED SKILLS: • Experience driving business value with ERP platforms (e.g., efficiency gains, cost reduction, improved service delivery, and enterprise decision making) across HR , Supply Chain , and Finance through strategic process redesign, operating model transformation, and other cross-functional focuses. • Ability to support business development that allows healthcare clients to optimize and transform the operating models, performance, and investments in their business or shared services (e.g., Finance & Accounting, Human Resources, Supply Chain , IT, Marketing, Philanthropy). • Ability to leverage existing relationships to identify new sales opportunities based upon strong understanding of Huron’s broad set of capabilities, designing solutions that meet new and existing client business objectives. • Strong experience successfully managing engagement economics, such as budgets, revenue forecasting, margins, invoicing, and billing. • Proven analytical and critical thinking skills required to effectively quantify operational benefits for performance improvement initiatives, identify risks to achieving projected outcomes, and develop and implement solutions to address data gaps or risks. • Exceptional verbal communication and listening skills to understand client challenges, create customized solutions to achieve their business objectives, and manage client expectations around benefits and deliverables; proven written communication skills needed to develop presentations and business proposals and deliver those with impact to key executive stakeholders. • Proven success in building strong executive-level relationships while leading a multi-faceted change process; demonstrated change management expertise and experience positively influencing change in a variety of complex environments with multiple stakeholders and competing priorities. • Large team leadership experience including team design, role definition and development, team and culture building, coaching/mentoring, and performance management of manager and director level team members. • Demonstrated ability to build and maintain an extensive professional network, recognize opportunities to enhance and expand executive level relationships, and identify business development opportunities that align with Huron’s broad set of capabilities. CORE QUALIFICATIONS: • Bachelor's degree required. • 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. • Ability to effectively understand and present information to executive management within Huron and to hospital client executives. • Direct Supervisory experiences of both individuals and large, complex teams. (Hands on experience in directly managing both individuals and large, complex teams of varying responsibility. • 10+ years of consulting and/or healthcare operations experience. • 10+ years of relevant experience working across multiple healthcare business services • Proficient in Microsoft office (Word, PowerPoint, Excel). #LI-CM1 The estimated base salary range for this job is $215,000 - $265,000. The range represents a good faith estimate of the range that Huron reasonably expects to pay for this job at the time of the job posting. The actual salary paid to an individual will vary based on multiple factors, including but not limited to specific skills or certifications, years of experience, market changes, and required travel. This job is also eligible to participate in Huron’s annual incentive compensation program, which reflects Huron’s pay for performance philosophy. Inclusive of annual incentive compensation opportunity, the total estimated compensation range for this job is $268,750 - $350,750. The job is also eligible to participate in Huron’s benefit plans which include medical, dental and vision coverage and other wellness programs. The salary range information provided is in accordance with applicable state and local laws regarding salary transparency that are currently in effect and may be implemented in the future. Position Level Senior Director Country United States of America

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