Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Leavitt Partners is a consulting firm focused on improving business performance in various sectors. The Principal is responsible for providing expertise in operations and strategy, managing client relationships, and mentoring junior staff while ensuring high-quality deliverables.
Responsibilities
- Performs business development activities to expand funded work from existing clients or new clients
- Develops and maintains a pipeline of future work that demonstrates a likelihood of achieving business development requirements in future periods
- Both lead and participate in proposal development and submission
- Meets with client to understand requirements
- Gathers and organizes information about the issue to be solved or the procedure to be improved
- Analyzes data to identify and understand issues to be addressed
- Presents findings to clients
- Provides advice, implementation plans, and/or suggestions for improvement according to project objectives
- Evaluates the client’s needs as warranted and adjusts as appropriate
- Ensures that all deliverables are high quality
- Serves as subject matter expert on projects
- Undertakes internal and external short-term or long-term projects to address identified issues and needs
- Develop and document tools, analysis, frameworks, tracking tools, road maps, dashboards, and other approaches to manage a variety of large and small projects
- Leads and manages teams, provides feedback and development, and advances internal initiatives
- Serves as a mentor for other staff members, as requested
- Ensures performance meets or exceeds HMA expectations in the following areas: Business development, Billable hour target attainment, Manages to budget/project caps established at the outset or assists in negotiating additional fees, Meets quality and operational standards, Completes and submits timesheets, expense reports, revenue forecasts, and other internal reports when due, Participates in and completes all HMA training and development requirements in a timely manner, Participates in internal activities related to business strategies, forecasts, adoption of new technologies/platforms/approaches, and other process improvements
- All other duties as assigned
Skills
- Minimum of a bachelor's degree in health policy, business management, public health, or a related discipline is required
- Minimum of 15 years of progressively increasing prior leadership or management experience in work involving publicly funded healthcare including, but not limited to policy, administration, operations, compliance, research, consulting, and/or evaluation
- Strong project management skills
- Solid time management skills
- Excellent internal and excellent professional networking skills
- Excellent attention to detail
- Excellent critical thinking skills
- Exceptional oral and written communication skills
- Superior interpersonal skills, including leadership, contribution to culture, and acceptance of accountability
- Ability to multi-task and adhere to strict deadlines
- Capable of handling confidential information in a discrete manner
- Ability to work extended hours when deadlines are approaching
- Demonstrated thought leadership and deep expertise in more than one critical healthcare area
- Maintains approach to stay current in trends in areas of subject matter expertise
- Identifies resource gaps and escalates needs appropriately
- Optimizes team resources to support delivery and budget adherence
- Anticipates long-term resource needs and aligns allocation with business growth
- Tracks team progress and follows through on key deliverables
- Holds team accountable for achieving defined goals and quality standards
- Leads teams to exceed performance expectations through continuous improvement and accountability
- Translates strategic direction into clear team objectives
- Aligns functional initiatives with organizational strategy and ensures timely execution
- Drives strategic priorities through cross-functional leadership and accountability
- A Master's degree in a related discipline is strongly preferred
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