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Are you a go-getter? Do you enjoy solving complex problems? Do you want to make an impact on patients, public health, and communities? Blue Cottage of CannonDesign is looking for a Health Strategy Consulting Leader. Take a look at the description below. If you think your skills and experience make you a good match for this position, we'd love to hear from you. We're looking for creative, curious, empathetic people to join our Living-Centered Design movement.

About Our Firm

Blue Cottage of CannonDesign is an industry-leading consulting firm. Our team works with organizational leaders to define their ideal future and plan processes, organizational strategies, equipment, and facilities to create an ideal future. Our projects are anchored by any of the following services: strategic transformation, visioning, experience strategy, analytics, innovation, developing projections of future service needs, space and functional programming, operational planning, change management, and transition and activation planning.

About The Role

The Health Strategy Consulting Leader is a client leader, partnering with consulting teams and design teams to source, pre-position, pursue, and deliver projects that plan for the future of health in healthcare and social service organizations, public agencies, private facilities, schools, community colleges, and/or universities. This role reports to Blue Cottage of CannonDesign Executive Leadership and will have close and frequent collaboration and coordination with Health Market Leaders, Health Practice Leaders, consultants focused on Technology and Digital, and others across the firm.

What You Will Do

• Build a portfolio of robust and successful consulting engagements by identifying & sourcing strategic consulting opportunities that leverage Blue Cottage and CannonDesign services in the health strategy and innovation industry space.
• Innovate and bring value and benefit to our clients, with a specific focus on complex strategy projects that may require deep knowledge and expertise in health policy, clinical technology, prototyping of new processes or patient-centric technology, and health system redesign strategy.
• Identify, establish, and nurture meaningful, long-term relationships with clients and internal partners through excellence, integrity, and reliability, growing the consulting practice and elevating the brand, while making measurable, living-centered impact.
• Develop service capabilities and tools that provide long-term recurring value to our practice and our clients, leveraging research and evidence-driven solutions.
• Provide oversight and lead high-performing teams from pre-positioning to pursuit to close, across Blue Cottage pillars including strategy, planning, complex program management, and digital innovation.
• Develop and implement health market initiatives and client development strategies, in collaboration with Blue Cottage pillar leads and CannonDesign health practice leaders.
• Serve as a liaison and represent Blue Cottage in planning meetings, leadership meetings, and collaborative efforts.
• Collaborate with clients to understand their needs, the issues they face, and partner with Blue Cottage and CannonDesign leaders to expand services within the health market.
• Manage consulting teams, reviewing project performance, team member utilization, tracking project budget, and coaching team members along the way based on project performance metrics and opportunities identified.
• Create work plans including project staffing, project approach, fee optimization, and resource requests.
• Lead and engage in the entire pursuit continuum.
• Capitalize upon your existing network and our client base and experience to expand the business potential and profile of the firm by pre-positioning Blue Cottage for opportunities.
• Build and share your subject matter expertise through industry networking, thought leadership, and engagement leadership.
• Provide direction and leadership on pursuits and proposal development, including the scoping of potential opportunities, team design, approach development, and overarching proposal execution and oversight.
• Significant travel is required, as necessitated by clients and your role.

Baseline Core Metrics

This role has minimum requirements for satisfactory performance that include achievement of 10% year-over-year service line growth and minimum 15% profitability for projects. The person in this role is expected to secure a minimum net-signed fee of $2.0M for Blue Cottage specifically, secured individually, and to contribute to team and firm-wide wins as well.

About Your Qualifications

• 15 years of experience in consulting, operations, or leadership applied in the health strategy, operations, or innovation (start-up) setting, preferably in a mix of hospital and consulting settings.
• Master's or advanced degree required.
• Experience and demonstrated knowledge of strategy, innovation, software development, and launch in healthcare-related space.
• Ability to manage the political nature of high investment projects, especially complex strategic planning.
• Executive presence and demonstrated business acumen.
• Business Development experience and proven ability to leverage a wide professional network of individuals that will help communicate our value and grow our brand and revenue.
• Ability to manage a team and understanding of the business model of consulting including consulting workplans, strategic pursuits, management of consulting P/L, understanding of project margin optimization, quality control of deliverables, etc.
• Commitment to exceptional work in every single interaction, every single day.
• Extensive travel is required.

Salary and Benefits

The salary range for this position is $156,400 to $195,500 annually. This salary range is the anticipated range of possible base compensation at the time of the posting. We may ultimately pay more or less than the anticipated salary range for the position. Employees may be eligible for discretionary bonuses. We offer a full benefit package including medical, dental, and