Senior Consultant, Health & Welfare ; Remote

Senior consultant, health & welfare benefits (remote) THE ORGANIZATION

Purchaser Business Group on Health (PBGH) is an action‑oriented non‑profit with a track record of improving health outcomes, experience and affordability for consumers and purchasers across the United States. PBGH advances quality, drives affordability and fosters equity in partnership with its members, who are some of the largest and most innovative private and public purchasers of health care, including The Boeing Company, Amazon, Intel, eBay, Walmart and CalPERS.

PBGH and its members are on the forefront of implementing innovations in the health care system through purchaser‑led solutions. PBGH partners across stakeholders to continuously identify, create and put into practice new strategies to support the health and overall wellbeing of employees, their families and the public.

The Senior Consultant, Health & Welfare Benefits supports PBGH’s mission to advance highvalue, affordable, and equitable health care by delivering independent, purchaser‑focused advisory services to employers and other health care purchasers. Serving as a strategic advisor—not a broker—this role provides objective analysis, market insight, and evidence‑based guidance to support employer’s fiduciary decision‑making across the health and welfare benefits lifecycle.

Working closely with PBGH senior leaders and subject‑matter experts, the Senior Consultant is responsible for executing and managing day‑to‑day advisory engagements, producing rigorous, insight‑driven analyses and recommendations, contributing to solution development, translating complex health data into actionable strategies for employers and helping shape purchaser‑relevant insights that can scale across PBGH’s employer community.

This role requires strong technical expertise, analytical depth, comprehensive knowledge of employee benefits, well‑established relationships with employers and the health markets, and polished client‑ready communication skills, along with the ability to operate independently with minimal oversight, demonstrate agility in handling shifting priorities and dynamic environments, collaborate across internal and external stakeholders, and uphold PBGH’s independent advisory posture.

• Independently manages multiple client engagements and owns defined work streams from start to finish.
• Develops client‑ready analyses, insights, and deliverables across health and welfare strategies, including medical, pharmacy, wellbeing, and point solutions.
• Develops and monitors engagement work plans, timelines, and milestones; proactively identifies risks, dependencies, or scope changes and escalates as appropriate to project and practice leadership to support on‑time, high‑quality delivery.
• Collaborates with internal project teams, subcontractors, and external partners, coordinating closely with senior leaders to ensure effective execution of assigned projects.
• Maintains organized project documentation, data files, and work products.
• Prepares materials and presents findings to client teams with clarity and confidence, alongside and with review from senior leadership.
• Partners with leadership to ensure recommendations are practical, data‑driven, and aligned with client objectives and PBGH advisory principles.
• Translates key findings into externally facing white papers, briefs, and presentations, with senior leadership input, to advance collective impact.

• Analyzes employer demographics, claims, utilization, cost, quality, and performance data, including self‑funded medical and pharmacy claims.
• Leads financial evaluations, including pricing, budgeting, forecasting, premium‑equivalent rate setting, contribution modeling and working knowledge in IBNR and stop‑loss.
• Applies analytical tools, methodologies and comprehensive health and welfare benefits knowledge to assess plan performance, vendor effectiveness, cost drivers, and improvement opportunities, aligning findings with PBGH advisory principles.
• Supports development and application of analytic solutions leveraging emerging…