Huron

Digital Consulting Director - Healthcare Analytics

Chicago - 550 Van Buren Full time

Huron is a global consultancy that collaborates with clients to drive strategic growth, ignite innovation and navigate constant change. Through a combination of strategy, expertise and creativity, we help clients accelerate operational, digital and cultural transformation, enabling the change they need to own their future. 

Join our team as the expert you are now and create your future.

Join Huron’s Healthcare Analytics practice and help leading provider organizations transform how they use data to improve performance, patient outcomes, and operational efficiency. As a Director, Healthcare Analytics, you will partner with senior executives to define and deliver analytics strategies that enable sustainable, data-driven transformation.

You will bring deep expertise in analytics advisory, data governance, and modern AI architectures—along with a passion for using data to create meaningful impact in healthcare. This role blends strategic leadership, delivery excellence, and business development in a dynamic, collaborative consulting environment.

What You’ll Do

Lead Client Engagements

  • Own delivery of consulting engagements focused on analytics operating models, data governance frameworks, and modern AI and analytics architectures for large healthcare providers and health systems.
  • Serve as a trusted advisor to senior leaders across large healthcare systems and provider organizations.
  • Design and implement analytics operating models and data governance frameworks that drive enterprise alignment and accountability.
  • Shape and deliver strategies that modernize healthcare organizations’ use of data and AI, supporting key initiatives such as clinical quality improvement, operational efficiency, and cost reduction.
  • Provide thought leadership on modern data and AI architectures, leveraging cloud and analytics technologies such as Microsoft (Azure, Power BI), Snowflake, Databricks, and Oracle.
  • Independently craft client facing deliverables and ensure delivery excellence through hands-on project leadership, strong stakeholder engagement, and measurable outcomes.
  • Coach, mentor, and develop consulting teams, promoting collaboration and growth across the organization.

Drive Growth and Innovation

  • Partner with client account teams to identify new opportunities for analytics-driven transformation.
  • Support business development through solution design, proposal creation, and executive presentations.
  • Contribute to the evolution of Huron’s Healthcare Analytics and AI offerings, including methods, frameworks, and go-to-market strategies.
  • Represent Huron in the marketplace as a thought leader on healthcare analytics and digital transformation.

Qualifications

Required

  • 10+ years of management consulting in advisory experience in analytics and data consulting, including 5+ years advising large healthcare provider organizations.
  • Strong verbal and written communication skills, narrating storyline and value proposition with PowerPoint, crafting quantitative and qualitative value propositions, engaging cross functionally with internal healthcare stakeholders to articulate and persuade with impactful PoV.
  • Proven success designing and implementing analytics operating models and data governance programs.
  • Strong understanding of modern data and AI architectures (e.g., cloud-native analytics, data mesh, data fabric).
  • Familiarity with enterprise analytics and AI platforms including Microsoft Azure, Power BI, Snowflake, Databricks, and Oracle.
  • Demonstrated ability to lead multidisciplinary teams and deliver complex, enterprise-scale engagements.
  • Excellent executive presence, communication, and relationship management skills.
  • Bachelor’s degree in Business, Healthcare Administration, Data Science, or a related discipline.

Preferred

  • Advanced degree (MBA, MPH, MS in Analytics, or related field).
  • Experience in value-based care, population health analytics, or clinical informatics.
  • Knowledge of healthcare interoperability and regulatory standards (e.g., FHIR, HL7, HIPAA).

Why Huron

At Huron, you’ll work alongside colleagues who are passionate about driving innovation in healthcare. Our teams help organizations turn data into insights, and insights into action—improving the quality, cost, and experience of care. We offer a collaborative culture, opportunities for professional growth, and a chance to make a lasting impact on the healthcare industry.

The estimated base salary for this job is $175,000 - $225,000 USD. The range represents a good faith estimate of the range that Huron reasonably expects to pay for this job at the time of the job posting. The actual salary paid to an individual will vary based on multiple factors, including but not limited to specific skills or certifications, years of experience, market changes, and required travel. This job is also eligible to participate in Huron’s annual incentive compensation program, which reflects Huron’s pay for performance philosophy. Inclusive of annual incentive compensation opportunity, the total estimated compensation range for this job is $218,750 - $303,750 USD. The job is also eligible to participate in Huron’s benefit plans which include medical, dental and vision coverage and other wellness programs. The salary range information provided is in accordance with applicable state and local laws regarding salary transparency that are currently in effect and may be implemented in the future.

Position Level

Director

Country

United States of America