The Senior Strategy Consultant is a critical member of the Jefferson Enterprise Strategy team, which provides routine and on-demand strategic analytics, intelligence, and guidance to support informed, sound business decisions. Jefferson Enterprise Strategy is the entity primarily accountable for managing and facilitating the annual enterprise-wide strategic-financial planning process.

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITY

The Senior Strategy Consultant is expected to meaningfully contribute to multiple projects concurrently, including managing the work of analysts and consultants on select projects. He/she is responsible for conducting analyses and validating accuracy of results, translating findings into strategic conclusions, and creating client-ready strategy deliverables with limited oversight. The Senior Strategy Consultant routinely interacts with clients and key organizational stakeholders, including effective presentation of strategy deliverables and facilitation of working groups for the purpose of developing strategic and/or business plans.

The Senior Strategy Consultant is crucial to successful execution of the enterprise-wide strategic planning process, including overseeing scheduling and logistics, creating assessments to support strategy development, developing meeting agendas and materials, and supporting plan facilitation.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS

• Interacts with co-workers, visitors, and other staff consistent with the values of Jefferson
• Appropriately engages with all level organizational stakeholders, maintaining the utmost confidentiality on sensitive projects
• Independently manages his/her own workload, including proactive reprioritization and time management
• Manages and reviews/provides feedback on project work of interns, analysts, and consultants on certain projects
• Develops high quality, on-time, client-ready deliverables on multiple (3+) projects concurrently with limited oversight
• Distills and documents the strategic implications of data and analytic findings with limited oversight
• Significantly supports the enterprise ISFP process (as described above)
• Organizes inputs, facilitates stakeholder discussions, and drafts comprehensive narrative business plans with VP/SVP oversight
• Organizes, leads and documents outputs of routine internal team meetings, and coordinates recruitment and oversight of the Jefferson Strategy intern program
• Builds credibility as a capable, reliable strategic resource with multiple senior organizational leaders

KEY COMPETENCIES AND EXPECTATIONS

• Strong interpersonal and engagement skills
• Strong verbal communication and presentation skills
• Strong written communication skills in all forms (i.e., concise presentation bulleting and narrative/long-form writing)
• Highly capable critical thinker, adept at deciphering strategic linkages and implications
• Proficient facilitation skills; capable of facilitating strategic and business plan development with support
• Flexible and creative, able to navigate a fluid environment and develop non-templated deliverables

EDUCATIONAL & EXPERIENCE REQUIREMENTS

• Bachelor’s degree with business or health care focus and 3-5 years of experience in a health care planning function with a hospital/health system or as a consultant, OR
• MBA or MHA/MHSA degree with at least 2 years of experience in a health care planning function with a hospital/health system or as a consultant

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Jefferson includes Thomas Jefferson University and Jefferson Health, a dynamic university and health system with broad reach across the Delaware Valley. Jefferson is the second largest employer in Philadelphia and the largest health system in Philadelphia based on total licensed beds.

Through the merger of Thomas Jefferson University and Philadelphia University in 2017, our University includes ten colleges and four schools. We are an NCAA Division II university and an R2 national doctoral university offering undergraduate and graduate-level programs that provide students with a forward-thinking education in architecture, business, design, engineering, fashion and textiles, health, medicine and social science.

Jefferson Health, the clinical arm of Thomas Jefferson University, has grown from a three-hospital academic health center in 2015, to an 18-hospital health system through mergers and combinations that include hospitals at Abington Health, Aria Health, Kennedy Health, Magee Rehabilitation and Einstein Healthcare Network. We have over 50 outpatient and urgent care centers; ten Magnet®-designated hospitals (recognized by the ANCC for nursing excellence); the NCI-designated Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center (one of only 70 in the country and one of only two in the region); and one of the largest faculty-based telehealth networks in the country. In 2021, Jefferson Health became the sole owner of HealthPartners Plan, a not-for-profit health maintenance organization in Southeastern Pennsylvania. We are the first health system regionally to create an aligned payer-provider partnership.

Jefferson’s mission, vision and values create an organization that attracts the best and the brightest students, faculty, staff, and healthcare professionals, as well as the most visionary leaders to drive exceptional results.

• OUR MISSION: We improve lives.
• OUR VISION: Reimagining health, education and discovery to create unparalleled value
• OUR VALUES: Put People First, Be Bold & Think Differently and Do the Right Thing

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