2027 Kaufman Hall Analyst Program - Clinical and Operations Improvement Analyst

When you’re the best, we’re the best. We instill an environment where employees feel engaged, satisfied and able to contribute their unique skills and talents while living and working as their authentic selves. We provide extensive opportunities for personal and professional development, building both employee competence and organizational capability to fuel exceptional performance through an inclusive environment both now and in the future.

2027 Kaufman Hall Analyst Program – Clinical Operations Analyst

Location: Chicago

Start Date: August 2027

Kaufman Hall

We help society’s healthcare organizations (hospitals and health systems) to achieve their full potential in service to others. 

We are our clients’ trusted partners in ever-changing times. For 40 years, Kaufman Hall has provided independent healthcare consulting and objective insights grounded in sound data and analysis to help clients fulfill their missions, achieve their goals, and tackle their toughest problems. 

Kaufman Hall provides world-class healthcare consulting for our healthcare providers across the country, with services including: Revenue & Operations Improvement, Strategy & Business Transformation, Mergers & Acquisitions, Clinical Operations, Financial Planning, and Treasury & Capital Markets. 

The Clinical Operations team partners with healthcare organizations to enhance clinical performance, optimize operations and improve patient outcomes. Our multidisciplinary experts collaborate closely with clients to address key areas such as clinical care, capacity and throughput, care management, emergency department efficiency, mortality rates, quality improvement, perioperative services and ambulatory care. By implementing evidence-based strategies and leveraging data analytics, we help organizations reduce clinical variation, prevent hospital-acquired conditions, minimize readmissions and achieve high reliability in care delivery.

The Position

Kaufman Hall is seeking an Analyst to join the Clinical Operations team as part of the 2027 Kaufman Hall Analyst Program.

The Clinical Operations team helps hospitals and health systems identify, quantify, prioritize, and achieve their improvement goals in support of ongoing strategic initiatives in the areas of Clinical Operations, Strategy, and Quality. 

The team is equipped to help clients achieve sustainable improvements across a broad range of cost-related concerns, including:

• Capacity Management including overall Throughput and Length of Stay Reduction
• Optimization at Portals of Entry including the Emergency Department and Perioperative space
• Overall improvement in clinical quality through reduction of readmissions and hospital-acquired conditions
• Reducing inappropriate clinical practice variation
• Reducing losses/subsidies of owned and employed physician practices
• Assessment and revitalization of system and facility care management operating models

The Clinical Operations practice is seeking self-motivated, intellectually curious professionals with a genuine interest in healthcare to join our 2027 Kaufman Hall Analyst Program. This program provides Analysts interested in performing operational analysis and optimizing clinical effectiveness of hospital and health systems the opportunity to work with our enterprise-level healthcare clients to help solve some of their most pressing issues. During the course of the Analyst Program, Analysts will be staffed on client engagements and support the delivery of strategic, financial, and operational-related services to our clients, working alongside Associates, Senior Associates, AVPs, VPs, SVPs, and Managing Directors.

Primary Responsibilities: 

Following an initial three-week training and onboarding period of intensive classroom training on the current healthcare landscape (Healthcare 101) and core skills (Excel, PowerPoint, Power BI), Analysts will be staffed on multiple client engagements.

• Supporting multiple Clinical Operations engagements at any given time balancing between quality, operational, and strategic workstreams
• Creating and applying industry-leading solutions to the most challenging strategic and organizational issues facing our clients
• Developing, analyzing, and interpreting advanced client data Excel and PowerBI models
• Keeping apprised of projects to ensure critical milestones are met, timelines are adhered to and changes are properly communicated 
• Scheduling client meetings, drafting agendas, taking and circulating meeting notes, and fulfilling other client management support roles
• Lead interviews and data gathering from hospital administration and medical staff
• Develop client-specific hypotheses and provide strategic recommendations based on data-driven analysis
• Research and promote best practices, thought leadership, and fact-based recommendations
• Building presentations and completed work product to be presented to clients and Board members
• Supporting the needs of the practice beyond client-specific work as required

Key Qualifications:

• Strong knowledge of healthcare trends, strategic planning, and financial operations
• Excellent analytical, quantitative, and data integrity skills
• Proficiency in Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, Word, and Power BI
• Exceptional communication and presentation skills
• Collaborative, adaptable, and comfortable navigating ambiguity

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree from a top tier University with a concentration in business, finance, accounting, analytics, economics and/or healthcare administration is strongly preferred 

Physical requirements: 

• Must be able to perform essential duties satisfactorily with reasonable accommodations.
• Work is generally done sitting, talking, hearing and typing. Visual acuity to use a keyboard, prepare and analyze data and figures; transcribing, viewing a computer terminal; extensive reading.

Work Environment 

• Travel Required: 30 – 60%.
• The role is based in Chicago
• Work is regularly performed in a combination of office, home office, and client settings, and routinely uses standard office equipment.
• It may require the maintenance of a home office and proximity to an airport for work related travel.

Kaufman Hall is committed to providing equal opportunity for all employees and applicants. We recruit, hire, train, promote, pay, and administer all employment actions without regard to actual and also perceived or assumed protected group status as defined by law of an individual or that individual’s associates or relatives. Our policies and the law prohibit employment discrimination against any employee or applicant on the basis of any legally protected status.

Estimated Hiring Range:

At Vizient, we consider skills, experience, and organizational needs in our compensation approach. Geographic factors may adjust the range estimate and hires typically fall below the top range. Compensation decisions are tailored to individual circumstances. The current salary range for this role is $0.00 to $0.00.

This position is also incentive eligible.

Vizient has a comprehensive benefits plan! Please view our benefits here:

http://www.vizientinc.com/about-us/careers

Equal Opportunity Employer:   Females/Minorities/Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities

The Company is committed to equal employment opportunity to all employees and applicants without regard to race, religion, color, gender identity, ethnicity, age, national origin, sexual orientation, disability status, veteran status or any other category protected by applicable law.