Network Performance Management Consultant

Helion Job Opportunity

This job is part of the Home and Community Services Network Performance and Management division and is designed to accelerate development of highly skilled individuals who have the potential to excel in Home and Community Services organization. The incumbent will rotate into various roles to immerse participants in strategic and operational priorities across the enterprise and possibly into collaborating business units. This job will facilitate regular meetings with Executives in the Post-Acute Space and with key strategic hospital executives to assess trends, keep abreast of escalating issues and analyze root causes to determine corrective action steps. The incumbent will train customers on core services and expand customer understanding and usage/adoption of key tools. The incumbent will also maintain and provide customer information on service trends, care initiatives, improvement opportunities, etc.

Essential Responsibilities

Build and maintain relationships with individual establishments/customers (i.e., Skilled Nursing Facility, Home Health Companies, LTACH, IPR, and Hospitals). Support the preparation of business plans and maintenance of target lists. Prioritize accounts in accordance with the market growth plan. Gather and organize account-related information and provide input on key customer opportunities, service line extensions and proposal or contract pricing.

Lead in the strategic implementation of key initiatives for Highmark Inc and HCS around vendor engagement and implementation; and lead in the strategic implementation of post-acute clinical transformation through network development and analysis of high performing partners.

Develop a robust understanding of the company's products and services, how we achieve our strategic objectives, and how team leadership and influencing skills as a leader are critical to the success of the organization.

Provide best-in-class training services, organize training/education opportunities, and promote participation/inclusion with key accounts and partners.

Facilitate key meetings with health plan leadership to review results of network, vendors, and other PAC strategies.

Perform analysis as an individual contributor and/or team leader, ensuring that work product is timely and accurate, the work is performed in a manner that minimizes manual processes and is delivered with a customer focus.

Lead short and medium-term duration projects, building an action oriented skill set that enables successful project delivery and confidence from project team members and matrix partners.

Serve as a leader of teams, ensuring that people, processes and technology are aligned towards the achievement of team objectives. As a team leader, understand that success of the team is the result of the entire team's output and that the program participant is evaluated in the context of individual results along with the sustained results of the team.

Education

Required

Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration/Management

Substitutions

6 years of related and progressive experience in lieu of bachelor degree

Preferred

Bachelor's Degree in Finance, Accounting, or related field OR Master's Degree in Business Administration/Management

Experience

Required

7+ years of progressive management experience or related industry leadership experience

To include:

5 years experience in healthcare

And (any of the following):

3 - 5 years Strategic Planning/Corporate Development

3 - 5 years Consulting

3 - 5 years Health Insurance Industry

Preferred

5 years managed healthcare experience

5 years post-acute care healthcare experience

Skills

Oral & Written Communication Skills

Relationship-builder with Unsurpassed Interpersonal Skills

Business Strategy

Self Starter

Team Leadership

Team Building

Strategic Thinking

Problem Solving & Decision Making

Languages (other than English)

None

Travel Required

0% - 25%

Physical, Mental Demands and Working Conditions

Position Type

Office-based

Teaches / trains others regularly Occasionally

Travel regularly from the office to various work sites or from site-to-site Rarely

Works primarily out-of-the office selling products/services (sales employees) Never

Physical work site required Yes

Lifting: up to 10 pounds Constantly

Lifting: 10 to 25 pounds Occasionally

Lifting: 25 to 50 pounds Rarely