Senior Managing Consultant – Clinical Quality Improvement – Healthcare

About the role

The Senior Managing Consultant serves as a senior implementation leader and subject-matter expert, partnering with acute care hospitals and health systems to lead complex, multi-workstream clinical quality and operational transformation initiatives. This role is designed for seasoned healthcare operators who have worked “in the trenches” and can translate strategy into sustainable execution across clinical, operational, and administrative environments.

Responsibilities

• Lead delivery of complex, multi-workstream clinical quality and performance transformation engagements, partnering directly with hospital executive leadership to ensure alignment across clinical, operational, and administrative stakeholders.
• Own end-to-end workplan execution, coordinating cross-functional teams and driving accountability to achieve measurable clinical quality, operational, and financial outcomes.
• Bring deep expertise in acute care hospital operations and transformation, with a strong ability to leverage EMR and performance data to inform decision-making and drive sustainable workflow change.
• Translate strategic objectives into practical, implementable solutions that can be operationalized by physicians, nursing leaders, and frontline teams.
• Build and maintain trusted, collaborative relationships with physicians and clinical leaders to drive adoption of evidence-based practices and consistent standards of care.
• Lead implementation efforts across areas such as quality improvement, patient safety, infection prevention, sepsis, surgical quality, complications, mortality, readmissions, and performance scorecards.
• Guide hospitals in optimizing performance on national quality and public reporting programs, including CMS Care Compare and other regulatory and benchmarking frameworks.
• Support regulatory readiness and ongoing compliance related to CMS, state health departments, and other oversight bodies.
• Translate complex clinical, operational, and performance data into clear, actionable insights for C-suite leaders and governing bodies.
• Monitor progress against defined metrics and scorecards, ensuring initiatives deliver sustained outcomes beyond initial implementation.
• Build, lead, and mentor high-performing project teams, fostering strong collaboration, accountability, and results orientation.
• Serve as a trusted advisor to senior hospital and health system leaders, particularly in complex or resource-constrained environments.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 7+ years of experience in acute care or healthcare settings, with a strong emphasis on hospital operations, clinical quality, performance improvement, and transformation.
• Bachelor’s degree required in Nursing, Public Health, Healthcare Administration, Health Information Management, or a closely related field.
• Advanced degree (MPH, MHA, MSN, MBA, or similar) preferred.
• Professional certifications (e.g., CPHQ, CIC, Lean/Six Sigma) preferred.
• Demonstrated experience leading large-scale implementation initiatives, including but extending beyond assessments or strategy design.
• Prominent ability to partner effectively with physicians, nursing leaders, and executive teams to drive change and adoption of evidence-based practices.
• Strong working knowledge of hospital operations, EMR systems, quality metrics, and performance scorecards.
• Experience building, leading, and developing high-performing teams focused on patient outcomes, quality, and operational performance.
• Excellent executive communication, facilitation, and change management skills.

Salary Range

$125,000 - $200,000

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.