Senior Consultant Strategic Decision Support- Operations

Description
Penn Medicine is dedicated to our tripartite mission of providing the highest level of care to patients, conducting innovative research, and educating future leaders in the field of medicine. Working for this leading academic medical center means collaboration with top clinical, technical and business professionals across all disciplines.

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

Summary:

The Senior Consultant, Strategic Decision Support -Operations- operates as an advisor at the intersection of data analysis, business intelligence, and strategic consulting. This position will have a strong focus on serving the Cancer Center with data and analytics. The Senior Consultant provides actionable insights that drive decision-making within Penn Medicine and clarifies complex business issues to recommend solutions. The Senior Consultant will learn and develop 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 Consultant is part of a team that aims to blend technical, clinical, and analytical skills to improve outcomes, optimize processes, and drive business growth. The Senior Consultant should demonstrate interest in exploring new ideas and the humility to collaborate often in that effort. The Senior Consultant will support Senior 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.

Responsibilities:

• Consultation: Perceived as credible and integral to work by senior clients and leaders. Influences client thinking and motivates them to take action as appropriate. Tailors approach to client interactions based on understanding of organizational issues and individual client sensitivities. Provides insights to the team on opportunities to positively influence client buy-in.
• Insight Generation Provides insight into the diagnosis of the clients overall problem by leading the development and testing of hypotheses. Demonstrates understanding of the problem-solving approach. Defines the client issues and generates potential solutions.
• Problem Solving: Develops analytical approach for entire workstream. Creates flexible, user friendly analytic models. Is innovative in using analytic findings and data to advance the client's thinking and highlighting challenges and solutions.
• Results: Owns end to end workstream recognizing iterative nature of work and client engagement goals. Anticipates and resolves issues, helping team meet deadlines and maintain project schedule.
• Teamwork: Proactively helps create and support an energizing team environment. Actively seeks a diverse set of perspectives to enhance project outcomes. Enables colleagues from diverse backgrounds to effectively apply and enhance their competencies to benefit of teams and clients. Mentors junior members of the team, fostering a culture of continuous learning and innovation within the team.
• Communication: Creates clear, concise and client ready slides and documents with clear storylines that demonstrate understanding of key questions to answer and specific client situation. Builds credibility and trust by asking thoughtful questions, actively listening and demonstrating empathy. When questioned, can constructively discuss issues as well as provide facts.
• Quality Assurance: Work product reflects a consistent focus on accuracy, reliability and completeness. Analysis is completed on time and is not missing important assumptions or elements.
• Continuous Improvement: Consistently gives frequent feedback including upward feedback, in interactions with colleagues and clients. Actively seeks and applies feedback from others. Supports and advances self-knowledge via new tools, techniques and methodologies. Demonstrate a commitment to continuous learning and professional development. Stay current with industry trends, best practices, and emerging technologies in [domain]. Look for opportunities to optimize the [domain] team's processes and workflows.

Education or Equivalent Experience:

• Bachelor of Arts or Science Business, Statistics or a related field Equivalent Experience (Required)
• And 3+ years experience working with large, complex datasets, conducting data analyses, and generating insights. Proven track record of leading and executing moderately complex projects with minimal oversight (Required)

We believe that the best care for our patients starts with the best care for our employees. Our employee benefits programs help our employees get healthy and stay healthy. We offer a comprehensive compensation and benefits program that includes one of the finest prepaid tuition assistance programs in the region. Penn Medicine employees are actively engaged and committed to our mission. Together we will continue to make medical advances that help people live longer, healthier lives.

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