We do Consulting Differently
The Integrated Health Solutions (IHS) practice at Berkeley Research Group (BRG) 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, IHS partners 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—helping clients build resilient, future-ready healthcare enterprises in an increasingly complex environment.
Our four core service offerings include:
Business Transformation Advisory
Margin & Operational Improvement
Quality Improvement & Clinical Care
AI & Digital Solutions
Clinical and Quality Transformation (CQT) helps providers improve care for their patients by implementing evidence-based leading practices to enhance clinical quality, operational efficiency, and care delivery.
CQT’s broad-based engagements help providers transform how they deliver care through a combination of reduced complications and mortality, optimizing surgery quality and operations, improved throughput and length-of-stay reduction, improved emergency department performance, quality infrastructure enhancements, and more accurate clinical coding and documentation—helping organizations deliver better patient care and outcomes while most effectively utilizing their clinical resources and infrastructure.
The Consultant
leads complex performance improvement projects within their expertise pillar, overseeing project teams and ensuring high-quality deliverables. This role drives client value through advanced analytics, industry expertise, and strategic recommendations
Willing to travel consistently (80%), depending on project requirements and client expectations, is required for this position.
Responsibilities
Support project workstream(s) under the direction of the project workstream/pilar Subject Matter Expert (SME)
, or serve as the SME if it is in the
individuals
core-knowledge area:
Supporting SME in non-core knowledge area:
Support SME in the workstream assessment and/or
implementation
deliverables.
Assists SMEs in
establishing
client processes/policies that maximize the quality and efficiency of client operations
Monitors implemented workstreams and
provides
timely
feedback to CPI SMEs as directed.
Ability to independently meet with clients and executives to advance project deliverables
Ability to independently create client facing materials including but not limited to slide decks and other materials
Acting as SME in core-area of knowledge:
Ability to develop project plan and client deliverables for smaller-scale projects
Ability to
independently implement client deliverables created by self or a SME
Ability to lead performance improvement work teams towards developing future-state processes
Ability to independently meet with clients and executives to advance project deliverables
Ability to independently create client facing materials including but not limited to slide decks and other materials
Submits complete,
accurate
, and on-time expense reports and time entry
Contributes internally to advancement of the firm through participation
on
work teams, task forces, etc.
Actively notifies superiors when bandwidth for
additional
utilization exists
Effectively
utilizes
non-productive time towards professional continuing education, and/or advancement of the firm
Willingness to work in other service lines as directed/assigned
Other duties as assigned.
Qualifications
Either 3+ years of experience in clinical performance improvement consulting or 5-10 y
ears of industry experience in a relevant role with relevant
licensure/certification(s)
and at least two years of industry experience in a relevant
leadership role, such as a nurse manager
(e.g. Registered Nurse, Social Worker, or experience in a health system performance improvement department with Lean Six Sigma
Black
Belt Certification
or Certification as a Project Management Professional (PMP)
)
Bachelor's Degree required in health or related field from an accredited college/university, or equivalent training/experience; Masters Degree in a relevant field is preferred. Candidates without a Masters Degree must enroll in a Masters program and earn their degree within three years of being hired into the role.
Proficient in Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, and Word.
Experience with Tableau preferred but not
required.
Understanding of
labor productivity concepts, practices, verbiage, and benchmarking.
A
nalytical skills
as they relate to
the project and/or
supporting the SME
Time management skills that enable supporting multiple engagements.
Resource management skills.
Expanded operational knowledge of inpatient nursing, including care models, standards of care across varying inpatient levels and effective resource utilization.
Strong expertise in workforce and productivity infrastructure including census and workload variability management, skill-mix methodologies, workforce planning tools and staffing to demand strategies.
Applies proven change management skills to guide stakeholders through process redesign workflow transformation, and adoption of sustainable operational improvement.
Able to interface effectively with the client’s nursing and labor initiative leaders.
Actively participate in inpatient nursing initiatives and independently lead smaller initiatives to drive process efficiencies and operational excellence.
Salary Range:
$ 90,000 - $ 135,000
Job title and compensation to be determined based on qualifications and experience.
Candidate must be able to submit verification of his/her legal right to work in the U.S., without company sponsorship.
About BRG
BRG combines world-leading academic credentials with world-tested business expertise and purpose-built emerging technologies. Our culture centers on agility and connectivity which sets us apart and gets you ahead.
At BRG, our professionals include specialist consultants, industry experts, renowned academics, and leading-edge data scientists. Together, they bring a diversity of real-world experience, data, and human and artificial intelligence, to economics, disputes, and investigations; corporate finance; and performance improvement services that address the most complex challenges facing organizations across the globe.
Our unique structure nurtures the interdisciplinary relationships that give us the edge, laying the groundwork for more informed insights and more original, incisive thinking. When paired with our global reach and resources, our diverse perspectives and technical capabilities make us uniquely capable to address our clients’ challenges. We get results because we know how to apply our thinking to your world.
At BRG, we don’t just show you what’s possible. We’re built to help you make it happen.
BRG is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. Our hiring practices provide equal opportunity for employment without regard to race, religion, color, sex, gender, national origin, age, United States military veteran status, ancestry, sexual orientation, marital status, family structure, medical condition including genetic characteristics or information, veteran status, or mental or physical disability so long as the essential functions of the job can be performed with or without reasonable accommodation, or any other protected category under federal, state, or local law.