Principal, MGB Strategy

Job Summary

The Principal plays a pivotal leadership role in the Strategy team, with responsibility for managing complex, high-impact projects that span institutions, service lines, and corporate functions. The role requires leading teams, engaging senior stakeholders, and translating business challenges into strategic solutions that drive system performance and growth.

Qualifications

• Master's degree in business, public health, or related field required
• 5+ years of experience in strategy, consulting, or healthcare leadership required
• Demonstrated ability to lead complex initiatives and teams
• Strong analytical, facilitation, and presentation skills
• Familiarity with healthcare analytics platforms (e.g., Tableau, SQL), and strategic data sources such as SG2, billing/claims data, or provider databases preferred

Key Responsibilities

• Serve as day-to-day leader for major strategic projects and initiatives with notable risk and complexity
• Lead the solution of highly complex, unique problems that have a broad impact on the business, including strategic thinking and structured problem solving in collaboration with system executives
• Guide development of executive deliverables that align with institutional priorities
• On a project basis, lead cross-functional teams of Consultants, Sr. Consultants, Engagement Managers, and/or Project Managers
• Facilitate alignment across departments and cultivate enterprise-wide relationships
• Develop the strategy for project execution, including setting meeting cadence, structuring decision-making processes, and overseeing all workstreams
• Translate complex ideas and analyses into insights that influence decision-making at the executive level, including addressing potential questions and objections
• Serve as a recognized expert / thought leader within the company on strategy, particularly as it relates to current and past projects
• Support Strategy leadership team in stakeholder communications and thought partnership
• Contribute to development of Strategy team function and capabilities, including team training and development and creating and refining leading practices for the strategy function

Core Competencies

• Strategic Thinking & Problem Solving: Framing, insight generation, cross-functional prioritization
• Presentation, Leadership & Collaborative Behavior: Executive engagement, mentoring, system navigation
• Cross-functional leadership and influence
• Project structuring and execution (including effective engagement with project management)
• Comfort with ambiguity and navigating evolving project contexts

Schedule

3 days onsite, Wednesdays required for team meetings. Locations at Assembly Row in Somerville, MA and the Prudential Center in Boston, MA.

Pay

Pay Range: $124,342.40 - $180,897.60/Annual