EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES

Health Strategies & Solutions, Inc., is a growing independent health care strategy firm with a client base that includes nationally ranked academic medical centers, community hospitals, physician group practices, and specialty organizations. Our mission is to work as trusted advisors to health care leaders, partnering with our clients to develop innovative strategies and creative solutions for today’s health care challenges. We strive to be recognized as the best health care strategy firm in the nation as measured by the success of our clients, the respect of our peers, and the ability to attract the best and brightest employees.

Health Strategies & Solutions was founded in 1997 by three leading health care strategists. Alan Zuckerman, our president, is widely considered one of the leading voices in health care strategy in the United States, and is a nationally recognized speaker and author. Craig Holm, senior vice president, is a highly regarded authority on physician strategies, and is the author of two books. Hugo Finarelli, senior vice president, is a national expert in quantitative analysis and demand forecasting, specializing in customized computer models and population-based demand forecasts.

Under their leadership, Health Strategies & Solutions has grown to include over 25 consultants and support staff, and has completed over 350 significant consulting engagements across the health care spectrum. Our firm is small enough to afford early career professionals the opportunity to collaborate with senior staff and see the impact of their work on providers, yet large enough to ensure that staff will participate on a variety of interesting projects. All HS&S staff enjoy a challenging, creative environment that provides opportunities for professional development, intellectual rewards, and continuous personal motivation.

Above: A few members of our HS&S team enjoy
the excitement of a Phillies game together.

We are currently seeking candidates for the positions described below:

Consultant - Operations

Health Strategies & Solutions has a full-time opening for an early career consultant in its Philadelphia office to support our operations and facility planning, clinical programming, and business planning engagements.  Successful candidates will have a master’s degree (preferably an MBA or MHA) and three to five years or more of health care operations experience, preferably in a hospital or other provider setting. Candidates must demonstrate experience with departmental operations for patient care services and familiarity with space or facility planning is desirable. Candidates must also have strong analytical capabilities required to support our operational assessments, space programming, and facility planning assignments.

Primary responsibilities include:

• Assess and benchmark operational efficiency and performance of inpatient and diagnostic and treatment departments
  
  
• Identify and validate operational and space issues by interviewing department managers and surveying departments
  
  
• Formulate strategies and recommendations for optimized patient flow and increased operational effectiveness
  
  
• Project workload volumes and translate workload volumes into capacity and space requirements
  
  
• Develop detailed functional and space programming for administrative and support departments
  
  
• Summarize results of the analyses and identify planning implications
  
  
• Prepare reports and present findings

This position works extensively on client engagements and has considerable direct contact with clients, including travel to client sites. 

Entry/Mid-Level Analyst

Health Strategies & Solutions has a full-time opening in our Philadelphia office for an entry/mid-level analyst focusing on research of industry trends and client-specific topics, as well as development of analyses and management of datasets to support product development and consulting engagements.  Primary responsibilities include:

• Conducting research and summarizing findings
  
  
• Organizing and analyzing client and industry data, including market share, patient origin, utilization, and financial statistics
  
  
• Developing charts, graphs, and tables to summarize analyses
  
  
• Preparing physician inventories
  
  
• Benchmarking financial and operational performance

Candidates must have a bachelor’s degree, solid writing skills, and strong quantitative and analytic skills.  Familiarity with Microsoft Windows applications including PowerPoint and Excel spreadsheet and Access database programs is strongly preferred.  Experience in health care is desirable.

Consultant

We are seeking a talented and highly motivated, early career professional to join our expanding team as an entry-level management consultant in our Philadelphia office.  This position supports a diverse mix of engagements and successful candidates will be expected to contribute to 3-4 projects concurrently.  Primary responsibilities include:

• Analyzing client and industry data, including market share, patient origin, utilization and financial statistics
  
  
• Preparing competitor profiles
  
  
• Conducting interviews
  
  
• Drawing conclusions from qualitative and quantitative analyses
  
  
• Developing baseline financial models and demand forecasting analyses
  
  
• Calculating physician need and surpluses and deficits by specialty
  
  
• Assisting in preparation of reports and presenting findings at client meetings

While the focus is on client work, consultants also assist in writing proposals, conducting research on industry trends and client-specific topics, and supporting product development.  Over time, individuals are expected to develop consulting competence in one to two HS&S product lines.  

Candidates will have a master’s degree (MBA, MHA, or similar) and up to two to three years of health care planning or management experience.  Solid analytical (qualitative and quantitative) and communication skills (written and oral) are required.  Familiarity with Microsoft Windows applications including PowerPoint, Excel spreadsheet, and Access database programs is also required.  Prior experience in a provider setting or in a consulting or project-oriented environment is preferred.  Travel to client sites is required.

Manager

Health Strategies & Solutions has a full-time opening for a manager. Successful candidates will have a master's degree and 5-8+ years of experience in a hospital or consulting firm. Candidates must demonstrate experience with managing complex strategic and business planning projects and have strong capabilities in the analytical work that forms the basis of these types of engagements.   Primary responsibilities include:

• Identifying client issues
  
  
• Reviewing qualitative and quantitative analyses and developing recommendations
  
  
• Ensuring the development of quality deliverables
  
  
• Presenting recommendations at client meetings
  
  
• Effectively managing the project team and day-to-day client relationships
  
  
• Meeting engagement budgets and timelines

This position works extensively on client engagements, includes travel to client sites, and has responsibility for developing and improving client relationships.  Participation in marketing activities including proposals, presentations, and articles is also expected.

Managers are expected to effectively lead project teams as well as develop and train other staff members.  Successful candidates will have excellent qualitative and quantitative analytical skills, written and oral communication skills, and client relationships skills.  Managers should demonstrate competence in 4-5 HS&S product lines and be able to manage 3-4+ project concurrently.  

All interested candidates should mail, fax, or e-mail (as a file attachment) a cover letter and their resume to:

Cheryl Hess
Chief Administrative Officer
Health Strategies & Solutions, Inc.
8 Penn Center
1628 JFK Blvd., Suite 500
Philadelphia, PA  19103
Fax: (215) 636-0399
E-mail: chess@hss-inc.com

No phone calls please!

Once we have received your resume, it will be reviewed within 14 days and you will receive an e-mailed response from us.  If we should need additional information before then, we will contact you.  While we may want to discuss aspects of your candidacy at a later date, please do not call us until we advise you of the status of your application.