Healthcare Consulting Senior Director - CDI & Coding

Huron helps its clients drive growth, enhance performance and sustain leadership in the markets they serve. We help healthcare organizations build innovation capabilities and accelerate key growth initiatives, enabling organizations to own the future, instead of being disrupted by it. Together, we empower clients to create sustainable growth, optimize internal processes and deliver better consumer outcomes.

Health systems, hospitals and medical clinics are under immense pressure to improve clinical outcomes and reduce the cost of providing patient care. Investing in new partnerships, clinical services and technology is not enough to create meaningful and substantive change. To succeed long-term, healthcare organizations must empower leaders, clinicians, employees, affiliates and communities to build cultures that foster innovation to achieve the best outcomes for patients.

Joining the Huron team means you’ll help our clients evolve and adapt to the rapidly changing healthcare environment and optimize existing business operations, improve clinical outcomes, create a more consumer-centric healthcare experience, and drive physician, patient and employee engagement across the enterprise.

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

At Huron, Senior Directors are more than leaders—they are catalysts for innovation and collaboration. In this role, you’ll partner with Huron and client executives to design sustainable strategies that deliver measurable results and lasting impact.

As a Senior Director on our Healthcare team, you will guide complex performance improvement initiatives, shaping high-performing environments and ensuring exceptional client outcomes. You’ll own engagement-wide economics, apply strategic thinking to quantify benefits, and craft solutions that elevate operational excellence.

You’ll also play a key role in our growing Reimbursement Solution capability, guiding clients through the complexities of clinical documentation integrity, and coding —ultimately helping them optimize reimbursement and strengthen financial performance. This is your opportunity to influence a rapidly expanding segment of our business while driving meaningful change across the healthcare landscape.

Your leadership will foster an inclusive, empowering culture where diverse perspectives thrive. You’ll build trusted executive relationships, lead transformative change, and uncover new opportunities to advance client objectives—leveraging Huron’s full suite of capabilities.

If you’re passionate about driving impactful solutions and believe in the power of collaboration, Huron offers a dynamic path to make an impact—while growing your career beyond boundaries.

As the Healthcare Consulting Senior Director in CDI & Coding you will:  

• Lead complex performance improvement engagements, creating collaborative, high-performing environments and ensuring successful client outcomes.

• Manage engagement-wide economics, including budgets, revenue forecasting, margins, invoicing, and billing.

• Apply analytical and critical thinking skills to quantify benefits, identify risks, and develop solutions for performance improvement initiatives.

• Communicate effectively to understand client challenges, create customized solutions, and manage client expectations, delivering impactful presentations and proposals.

• Build strong executive-level relationships, lead change processes, and identify new business opportunities, leveraging Huron's capabilities to meet client objectives.

Requirements:   

• Bachelor’s degree required

• Minimum of 10 years of relevant experience, including at least 5 years of progressive healthcare management consulting experience. A combination of consulting and senior leadership roles within provider organizations may be considered, but strong healthcare consulting experience is essential.

• Extensive healthcare inpatient documentation experience

• Extensive experience managing major projects for large, complex healthcare organizations with multiple stakeholders

• Demonstrated executive-level presence with the ability to manage client relationships, provide strategic insights, contribute to methodology development, and lead continuous solution advancement.

• The ability to travel based on client, enterprise, or project needs is an essential function of this role. While travel requirements may vary based on business need, the current average travel in the Healthcare practice is less than 50%, annually.

• Direct Supervisory experiences of both individuals and large, complex teams

• Proficiency in Microsoft Office (Word, PowerPoint, Excel)

• US Work Authorization required

Preferences:  

• Master's degree or equivalent experience

• Experience in a matrixed organization or cross-functional team environment 

The estimated base salary range for this job is $215,000 - $265,000.  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 $268,750 - $350,750. 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

Senior Director

Country

United States of America