Rural Health Senior Manager

From strategy to execution, this team delivers integrated, end-to-end support and advisory services covering valuation modeling, cost optimization, restructuring, government operations modernization, business design and transformation, infrastructure and real estate, mergers and acquisitions (M&A), and sustainability. As a Rural Health Senior Manager on the Operations Transformation team, you will originate and shape opportunities with state clients, then lead complex engagements that require close collaboration with hospital executives, health system operators, payers, and other commercial health infrastructure stakeholders.

Our Deloitte Strategy & Transactions team helps guide clients through their most critical moments and transformational initiatives. From strategy to execution, this team delivers integrated, end-to-end support and advisory services covering valuation modeling, cost optimization, restructuring, government operations modernization, business design and transformation, infrastructure and real estate, mergers and acquisitions (M&A), and sustainability. Work alongside clients every step of the way, helping them navigate new challenges, avoid financial pitfalls, and provide practical solutions at every stage of their journey-before, during, and after any major transformational projects or transactions.

Work you'll do

As a Rural Health Senior Manager on the Operations Transformation team, you will originate and shape opportunities with state clients, then lead complex engagements that require close collaboration with hospital executives, health system operators, payers, and other commercial health infrastructure stakeholders. The role is accountable for executive client relationships, pursuit strategy, engagement direction, delivery quality, team performance, and the translation of commercial commitments into practical, implementable solutions. Role responsibilities include:

• Lead identification, qualification, shaping, and pursuit of new rural health transformation opportunities across state and health system clients

• Cultivate and maintain executive-level relationships with state Medicaid agencies, hospital and health system leaders, payers, and other key stakeholders across the commercial and rural health ecosystem

• Shape go-to-market strategy, solution architecture, and proposal positioning

• Represent the firm at national industry conferences, health system forums, and policy convenings to strengthen market credibility and generate pipeline

• Serve as the accountable project leader on select engagements, setting direction, governing scope, budget, schedule, risks, quality, and team performance from mobilization through closeout

• Lead executive client governance and work closely with health system and commercial health leaders to align recommendations with operating realities, strategic priorities, and implementation constraints

• Build and lead multidisciplinary project teams, coach team leads, and support their delivery and business development responsibilities

A successful candidate would possess these skills:

• Ability to work independently and collaborate as part of a team
• Effective written and verbal communication skills
• Meticulous attention to detail and quality of work product
• Ability to build and sustain professional relationships
• Ability to lead projects or workstreams
• Ability to manage and prioritize multiple tasks in a fast-paced and dynamic environment
• Strong interpersonal skills and professional demeanor
• Ability to meet deadlines
• Ability to mentor and provide clear guidance to others

The team

Deloitte's Government & Public Services (GPS) practice - our people, ideas, technology and outcomes - is designed for impact. Serving federal, state, & local government clients as well as public higher education institutions, our team of professionals brings fresh perspective to help clients anticipate disruption, reimagine the possible, and fulfill their mission promise.

Our Operations Transformation offering provides NextGen core operational solutions and operating models, business-led technology support, and process optimization services, maximizing value to our government clients' missions.

The Project Delivery Talent Model is designed for professionals with specialized skills that align to a current client need. Team members focus on delivering services to clients, without additional expectations related to business development or promotion. Their employment is tied to their role on a project, and they are eligible for a benefits package that is competitive for project delivery-focused professionals.

Qualifications

Required:

• Bachelor's degree
• 10+ years of progressively responsible experience spanning healthcare consulting, commercial health or hospital administration, project leadership, and business development
• Deep commercial health and/or hospital administration expertise gained through senior operating, advisory, or consulting roles within hospitals, health systems, health plans, or related healthcare organizations
• Demonstrated success leading complex, multi-workstream healthcare engagements, including responsibility for scope, financial performance, delivery quality, executive stakeholder management, and team leadership
• Ability to travel 50%, on average, based on the work you do and the clients and industries/sectors you serve.
• Must be able to obtain a clearance
• Must be legally authorized to work in the United States without the need for employer sponsorship, now or at any time in the future.

Preferred:

• Experience supporting state and/or local healthcare clients
• Prior leadership experience within a hospital, health system, health plan, or commercial healthcare organization, or extensive advisory experience serving such clients
• Experience leading transformation, strategy, operations, finance, or performance improvement initiatives across hospitals or health systems

The wage range for this role takes into account the wide range of factors that are considered in making compensation decisions including but not limited to skill sets; experience and training; licensure and certifications; and other business and organizational needs. The disclosed range estimate has not been adjusted for the applicable geographic differential associated with the location at which the position may be filled. At Deloitte, it is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the top of the range for their role and compensation decisions are dependent on the facts and circumstances of each case. A reasonable estimate of the current range is $163,400 to $322,00.

You may also be eligible to participate in a discretionary annual incentive program, subject to the rules governing the program, whereby an award, if any, depends on various factors, including, without limitation, individual and organizational performance.