Lead Consultant, Strategic Decision Support - Market

Description
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• Entity:
  Corporate
• Department:
  PennDnA, Strategic Decision Support - Market
• Location:
  
  Remote based out of 3535 Market Street, Philadelphia, PA
• Hours:
  
  8hr Days

Summary:

The Lead Consultant, Strategic Decision Support - Market, operates in targeted areas of Penn Medicine as a trusted advisor at the intersection of data analysis, business intelligence, and strategic consulting. The Lead Consultant provides actionable insights based on complex models that drive decision-making within Penn Medicine and clarifies complex business issues by leveraging data. The Lead Consultant will learn, develop, and demonstrate skills in hypothesis-based consulting, analytics, and storyboarding.

As part of Strategic Decision Support (SDS) within the Data and Analytics (DnA) Center of Excellence, the Lead Consultant works on a team that aims to blend technical expertise, clinical knowledge, and analytical skills to improve outcomes, optimize processes, and drive business growth. The Lead Consultant should demonstrate interest in exploring new ideas and the humility to collaborate often in that effort.

The Lead Consultant will support Penn Medicine leaders and stakeholders on issues of broad importance to ensure timely, relevant analyses that align with business objectives. As such, they must be able to structure, execute, and communicate analytical findings to diverse audiences.
This role will focus on assisting in the development of business plans, ROIs, and P&Ls for new programmatic opportunities and evaluating the financial appropriateness and implications of proposed initiatives.

Responsibilities:

• Consultation:
  Viewed by executive level clients as a trusted advisor on project issues. Achieves overall client buy-in and understanding of needed action steps throughout the project. Proactively identifies client issues and collaborates with senior team members to address them. Tailors approach based on audience needs and manages meetings to desired outcomes.
• Insight Generation:
  Designs, builds and teaches models to solve complex problems. Expands client's understanding of the power of data. Helps clients define ways to leverage data for management decision making, performance monitoring, or future planning.
• Problem Solving:
  Defines client issues and generates compelling solutions and recommendations using approaches that reflect broader context. Is creative in identifying and testing hypotheses that advance the client's thinking. Effectively leads the team's problem solving by helping colleagues focus on the most critical issues, continuously refining hypotheses, and challenge assumptions as appropriate.
• Results:
  Manages project by outcomes and deadlines, anticipating iterative nature of work. Develops work plans that reflect sound hypothesis-based problem solving, thorough understanding of project objectives and milestones, market dynamics, client factors, and industry trends. Anticipates, proactively mitigates, and helps resolve project issues.
• Teamwork:
  Maintains pulse on workload and morale of entire team and promptly addresses any concerns. Structures time and communication with project leadership to maximize impact and avoid last minute fire drills. Champions professional development of individual team members. Creates collaborative team environment that engenders consistent team learning through the day-to-day work and structured learning and reflection.
• Communication:
  Creates documents with tightly structured storylines. Synthesizes and crisply articulates key insights and client implications. Commands client audiences of all sizes is an engaging and articulate…