Managing Consultant – Payer & Provider Strategy – Healthcare

BRG Communications LLC

Job Overview

Location

Remote - USA

Job Type

Full-time

Full Job Description

📋 Description

• The Managing Consultant – Payer & Provider Strategy – Healthcare role at BRG Communications LLC is a senior consulting position responsible for leading complex, multi-workstream engagements that help healthcare payers and providers navigate strategic, operational, financial, and clinical challenges. This role is critical to driving sustainable performance improvement and long-term growth for clients through strategic advisory services in an evolving healthcare landscape.
• The person will lead end-to-end delivery of consulting engagements, including scoping, planning, execution, and oversight of multiple workstreams to ensure integration of analytic output, insights, and recommendations while maintaining accountability for deliverable quality, timelines, budget adherence, and client satisfaction.
• Day-to-day responsibilities include serving as the primary client leader, building trusted advisory relationships with senior executives at health plans, health systems, CINs, and provider groups; facilitating executive workshops, steering committee sessions, and strategic planning meetings; and translating client needs into structured consulting approaches and actionable strategies.
• The role involves leading the development of enterprise payer and provider strategies, including market expansion and portfolio diversification, enterprise growth planning and scenario modeling, organizational strategy and transformation roadmaps, and care model, service line, and population health strategy, synthesizing quantitative and qualitative analyses into strategic frameworks and executive recommendations.
• The consultant will lead assessment, design, and implementation planning for payer–provider partnerships, including joint ventures, delegated arrangements, risk-bearing entities, clinically integrated networks, provider enablement models, ACO formation, and value-based care partnerships, while advising clients on organizational capabilities, partnership governance, and integration requirements.
• The position includes thought leadership responsibilities such as shaping the firm’s point of view on key industry trends like provider enablement, payer–provider alignment, value-based care, and enterprise transformation; developing frameworks, methodologies, and toolkits; and contributing to articles, white papers, and proposal development.
• Team leadership and talent development are key aspects, involving managing and mentoring Associates and Senior Associates through coaching, feedback, and skill development; fostering a culture of structured problem solving, analytic rigor, quality, and collaboration; and participating in recruiting and professional development initiatives.
• The ideal candidate brings a strong consulting toolkit, deep healthcare market knowledge across payers and providers, and demonstrated experience designing and executing strategic partnerships and integration strategies, with willingness to travel consistently (50%) depending on project requirements and client expectations.
• BRG’s Integrated Health Solutions (IHS) practice provides end-to-end advisory support to healthcare providers, payers, investors, and other stakeholders navigating complex strategic, operational, financial, and clinical challenges, led by seasoned healthcare executives, operators, and clinicians.
• The firm’s four core service offerings—Business Transformation Advisory, Margin & Operational Improvement, Clinical & Quality Transformation, and AI & Digital Solutions—enable IHS to partner with organizations to drive sustainable performance improvement and long-term growth through strategic growth design, operating model transformation, AI and digital enablement, clinical quality and patient care optimization, and revenue strategy.
• Business Transformation Advisory specifically partners with healthcare organizations to define enterprise-wide strategy and align financial, clinical, and operational priorities to long-term objectives, spanning enterprise and service line strategy, population health and value-based care models, long-range financial forecasting, and regulatory and alternative payment methodologies.
• The role offers the opportunity to work within a culture of agility and connectivity at BRG, where professionals include specialist consultants, industry experts, renowned academics, and leading-edge data scientists who bring diverse real-world experience, data, and human and artificial intelligence to address complex global challenges.
• BRG’s unique structure nurtures interdisciplinary relationships that provide the edge for more informed insights and original, incisive thinking, enhanced by global reach and resources to deliver results through applied thinking to clients’ worlds.

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree required; advanced degree (MBA, MHA, MPH, MPP) strongly preferred.
• 6–10+ years of experience in healthcare strategy consulting or payer/provider enterprise strategy required.
• Deep understanding of healthcare markets, economics, regulatory dynamics, and payer–provider business models.
• Demonstrated experience leading consulting engagements and managing client relationships.
• Proven ability to design and execute strategies involving provider partnerships, care model transformation, and enterprise planning.
• Exceptional communication skills, including executive-level storytelling.
• Strong team leadership, talent development, and project management capabilities.
• Willingness to travel consistently (50%), depending on project requirements and client expectations.

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive salary range of $120,000 – $165,000 per year, with job title and compensation determined based on qualifications and experience.
• Opportunity to work remotely within the USA while engaging with healthcare clients across the nation.
• Exposure to BRG’s interdisciplinary culture that combines world-leading academic credentials with world-tested business expertise and purpose-built emerging technologies.
• Access to a diverse team of specialist consultants, industry experts, renowned academics, and leading-edge data scientists, fostering rich learning and collaboration.
• Ability to contribute to thought leadership through frameworks, white papers, articles, and proposal development that shape industry perspectives.
• Professional growth through mentoring junior staff, participating in recruiting initiatives, and engaging in firm-wide talent development programs.
• Alignment with BRG’s Equal Opportunity Employer commitment, ensuring inclusive hiring practices and a supportive work environment.
• Engagement in meaningful work that helps healthcare organizations build resilient, future-ready enterprises amid increasing industry complexity.

Skills & Technologies

Remote

$120k-165k

Degree Required

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About BRG Communications LLC

BRG Communications is a strategic communications and public affairs firm specializing in health, safety and social-impact campaigns for government agencies, nonprofits and Fortune 500 companies. The agency integrates research, digital strategy, creative content and media relations to advance public health initiatives, crisis response and behavior-change programs. Founded in 2005 and headquartered in Alexandria, Virginia, BRG partners with CDC, FDA, HHS and private-sector clients to tackle issues such as vaccination, opioid misuse and disaster preparedness. Services include branding, advertising, stakeholder engagement, data analytics and multicultural outreach across traditional, social and emerging platforms.

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