Transformation Consultant

University of Iowa Health Care is the state’s only comprehensive academic medical center, bringing together world-class patient care, pioneering research, and outstanding education. As a nationally recognized leader in medicine, we offer opportunities to work alongside top experts in a collaborative, innovative environment that values excellence, compassion, and discovery. Join us in shaping the future of health care—while making a meaningful difference in the lives of patients and communities across Iowa and beyond.

UI Health Care has an opportunity for a skilled Transformation Consultant to join our team.  The consultant plays an integral role in helping to support and define the work for UI Health Care’s enterprise transformation journey. This position provides organizational transformation and drives complex, critical business and operational initiatives through transformation consulting by directly partnering with clinical, academic, research, and administrative leaders across the organization to facilitate strategic implementation, deliver insight-backed recommendations, shape enterprise-wide change initiatives, and support the top priorities of the Enterprise Performance Council (EPC).  This role is part of the Transformation Consulting team within the Transformation Office and reports directly to the Principal Transformation Consultant. The role works in close collaboration with colleagues across analytics, performance improvement, and project management teams as they conduct work cross-functionally in the organization.

The Transformation Consultant will be responsible for driving high-impact transformation efforts, collaborating with a team of analysts, leveraging data to drive decision-making, and fostering a culture of continuous improvement. This role serves as a key connector across clinical, operational, academic, research, and executive teams—translating complex analytics into actionable insights that accelerate progress on enterprise goals and results for enterprise-level initiatives. This position will be proficient in working with executives, senior clinicians, and others to facilitate and lead deep opportunity analyses, recommend innovative solutions, structure reliable implementation plans, identify key metrics and required reporting, and effectively manage initiatives to achieve targeted results.  This position will be personally responsible for concurrently driving two to three initiatives from inception to implementation in collaboration with the executive sponsor and initiative owner.

Demonstrates strategic, system, and analytical thinking as well as a strong understanding of healthcare provider strategy and operations gained through experience across a variety of healthcare systems and functions.  Regularly works on highly complex issues or problems that require analysis of unique issues/problems without precedent and/or structure. Exercises a high level of judgment in selecting methods, techniques, and evaluation criteria for obtaining results. 

Key Responsibilities:

• Acts as a transformation consultant to the enterprise on high-priority projects and initiatives and orchestrates complex initiatives across the organization with support from leadership.
• Leads formulation and delivery of transformation initiatives. Defines objectives and associated metrics to provide strategic visibility of organizational progress; manages multiple work streams/projects efficiently.
•  Leverages knowledge, skills, and relationships to rapidly develop frameworks, define work approaches, conduct analysis, generate insights, and communicate those insights to support / influence approach and transformation agenda.
• Synthesizes analytics and key insights into complete presentations outlining objectives, analysis, findings, and recommendations. Presents findings to team, mid and senior-level stakeholders, and provides assistance in developing presentations that will be presented to large audiences, including executive leadership team.
• Designs and undertakes complex quantitative and qualitative assessments, and conducts primary research as appropriate, to support the development of evidence-based transformation efforts.
• Analyze data to derive actionable insights aligned with EPC priorities.
• Partner with project managers and key stakeholders across clinical, operational, and administrative areas to gather inputs for strategy execution.
• Facilitate discovery and ideation sessions to scope problems and initiate solutioning for top enterprise priorities.
• Identify risks, barriers to progress, and resistance to change; escalate and collaborate to resolve issues.
• 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.
• Facilitate strategic thinking and consulting skills in guiding the organization toward workable strategies and solutions.
• Develop strategic materials, reports, and presentations that translate analysis into clear, compelling narratives for senior leaders.
• Support change management initiatives.
• Maintain ongoing communication and alignment through regular stakeholder meetings and collaboration sessions.
• Contribute to building standardized processes, documentation, and reporting templates within the Transformation Office.
• Engage in continuous learning and process improvement efforts to increase the Transformation Office’s impact.
• Drive innovation efforts and identify opportunities for system-wide improvement.

Required:

• Master’s degree in business, health administration, or a related field, or equivalent combination of education and experience. 
• 5 years of professional experience in management consulting, health care strategy, operations, transformation, or similar roles. 
• Demonstrated experience working on cross-functional projects in complex organizations.
• Strong proficiency in PowerPoint and Excel
• Proven ability to focus on priorities, strategies, and vision.
• Advanced ability to coach, facilitate, and influence people at all levels.
• Advanced ability to build and maintain relationships with a broad range of staff and members of the community.
• Demonstrated ability to work effectively in a fast-paced, dynamic environment
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, particularly with senior stakeholders.
• Demonstrated attention to detail.
• Demonstrated ability to determine relevance and prioritize tasks.
• Demonstrated advanced effective writing skills to include knowledge of all aspects of communications and effectively communicate with all levels of an organization.
• Proven leadership ability.
• Effective problem-solving skills.
• Demonstrated ability to put forth persuasive arguments.
• Ability to thrive in a dynamic, matrixed environment and manage ambiguity.
• Demonstrated experience working effectively in a welcoming and respectful work environment.

Desired:

• Strong business acumen.
• Analytical thinking with the ability to synthesize complex data into insights.
• Strategic problem-solving and creative solution development / storytelling
• Strong organizational and project management abilities, with experience in strategic road mapping.
• Experience leading a team of professionals.
• Advanced knowledge of the organization's processes, protocols and procedures.
• Knowledge of common organization-specific and other computer application programs.
• Experience navigating health care workflows and enterprise decision-making structures.
• Experience working in consulting for health care systems or academic medical centers.
• Familiarity with health care or medical center transformation and strategic implementation.
• Proficiency with tools such as PowerPoint and Excel.
• Exposure to analytics interpretation and storytelling for executive audiences.

Application Process: To be considered, applicants must upload a cover letter and resume (under the submission of relevant materials) that clearly address how they meet the listed required and desired qualifications of this position. Job openings are posted for a minimum of 7 calendar days. Successful candidates will be required to self-disclose any conviction history and will be subject to a criminal background check and credential/education verification.

 Up to 5 professional references will be requested at a later step in the recruitment process. For questions, contact Sharon Walther at sharon-walther@uiowa.edu.

This position is not eligible for University sponsorship for employment authorization now or in the future.