Healthcare Strategic Consultant

About the role

The Healthcare Strategic Consultant is a senior leadership position responsible for leading major client engagements, ensuring delivery excellence, and cultivating long-term client relationships. This individual will serve as a trusted advisor to senior executives across complex client organizations, oversee multiple project teams to provide strategic guidance and operational clarity, mentor and develop emerging leaders, and contribute to the growth, service line performance, and external reputation of the firm.

Responsibilities

• Lead major client engagements, ensuring delivery excellence and long-term value creation.
• Build and sustain trusted relationships with senior executives across complex client organizations.
• Oversee multiple project teams, providing strategic guidance and operational clarity.
• Mentor and develop emerging leaders while identifying growth and learning opportunities across the firm.
• Define and track service line metrics, driving strategic direction, innovation, and performance.
• Maintain timeliness and quality of work, budget adherence, and utilization rates aligned with goals.
• Advance Thrivence’s reputation through thought leadership, conference presentations, and professional involvement.
• Develop and maintain Thrivence intellectual property within areas of expertise to strengthen market differentiation.
• Adapt quickly and respond effectively to project issues as they arise.
• Embrace company Purpose, Vision, and Values.

Requirements

• 12–15 years of consulting or relevant experience.
• Advanced degree preferred; recognized industry expertise and advanced industry credentials a plus.
• Deep consulting expertise with demonstrated experience managing large projects and client portfolios.
• Exceptional leadership, communication, and relationship-building skills.
• Proven ability to develop talent and grow high-performing teams.

About the company

Barge Design Solutions, Inc., is an engineering and architecture firm with diverse in-house multidisciplinary practice areas. The employee-owned company is more than 650+ people strong and serves clients nationwide from multiple U.S. locations. Barge is ranked on Engineering News-Record (ENR)’s Top 500 Design Firms and Architectural Record’s Top 300 Architecture Firms and is a certified Great Place To Work®.

Our Primary Purpose For Being In Business Is Ultimately To Create a Better Life By Unleashing The Potential Of Our People, Clients And Communities. This Purpose Is Supported By Our Company’s Core Values Because At The End Of The Day, Barge CARES:

• Collaborate – Help and expect help. Teamwork is essential in what we do.
• Authentic – Honesty, integrity and trust are at the heart of everything we do. We are who we say we are.
• Responsible – We are accountable for our work, our attitude, and our actions. We make Barge better.
• Excellence – We go all in and expect more of ourselves than others expect of us.
• Service – We are humble. We use our gifts in service of others. We believe that if we are living out our purpose for being in business and integrating our values into everything we do, we will ultimately achieve our vision to be the firm best known for being selected when it matters most.