Healthcare Consulting Director - Clinical Workforce

About the role

Join the Huron team as the expert you are now and create your future. As the Healthcare Consulting Director in Clinical Workforce, you will:

• Lead and direct teams in complex performance improvement engagements, managing budgets, invoicing, and billing while ensuring successful client outcomes.
• 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 relationships and lead change processes, demonstrating expertise in change management and influencing positive change in complex environments.
• Lead and develop teams, including role definition, team building, coaching, mentoring, and performance management, while identifying business development opportunities.

Requirements

• Bachelor's of Nursing degree (BSN) required
• Active Registered Nurse (RN) license required
• 8+ years of healthcare project leadership and workplan management experience, gained through hospital leadership and/or management consulting roles, leading hospital-based clinical workforce initiatives including nursing labor productivity improvement, staffing model optimization, and internal/external benchmarking
• Demonstrated clinical leadership experience as a nurse across multiple acute and/or non-acute care settings, with accountability for nursing workforce strategy, enterprise workforce planning, and talent deployment—developed through hospital operations and/or consulting engagements aligned to patient acuity, quality outcomes, and operational demand
• 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 teams
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office (Word, PowerPoint, Excel)

Preferences

• Relevant graduate degree preferred (e.g., MSN, MBA, MA)
• Experience in a matrixed organization or cross-functional team environment