Accenture Consulting Advanced Degree Consultant - Summer Consultant - Health - NAELFY25

Posted:
9/11/2024, 2:31:26 PM

Location(s):
Chicago, Illinois, United States ⋅ Illinois, United States

Experience Level(s):
Internship

Field(s):
Consulting

Accenture Health Consulting 

Change is good. Transformation is better. Bring your big ideas and ability to creatively solve client business issues to Accenture, and you may find that your career catapults to places you never imagined. As a Management Consultant in Accenture’s Health practice, you’ll combine industry knowledge with functional capabilities to deliver business outcomes at speed while helping clients manage risk. 

Given Accenture’s unique end-to-end management consulting offering, you’ll deliver transformational projects and solutions that will solve important client issues at the intersection of business and technology. 

Advanced Degree Consultant Intern 

As an intern at Accenture, you’ll become part of a strong network and client serving team throughout the summer program. You’ll partner with our clients on the frontlines in the delivery of business change, applying your problem-solving abilities in designing solutions and navigating complex delivery issues and challenges. You’ll be called upon to influence a varied set of stakeholders spanning all levels across client organizations in order to move them to action. Your advanced degree and related experience will enable you to reinvent and adapt to the speed of disruption in the digital world for our clients and globalization. 

Your Role as a Healthcare Management Consultant 

There is never a typical day at Accenture, but that’s why people love it here! As a new consultant, you’ll test out new ideas with clients in your own unique way. You might spend your day:  

  • Designing new business processes for our payer and provider clients based on customer requirements, facilitating review sessions and aligning stakeholders on new approaches 
  • Implementing programs that prepare the organization for implementation of new business processes  
  • Translating the strategic direction and business objectives established by clients into holistic change management, organization, and talent related strategies 
  • Leveraging Accenture’s healthcare methods, tools, and assets to design solutions for complex organizational challenges 
  • Identifying the organizational impacts related to a specific change in process, technology, or other project change and develop the change management plan 
  • Driving process performance improvement, diagnosing the problem, planning and leading the transformation  
  • Combining structural and execution skills that enable our clients to achieve immediate business value; if necessary, execute these operational values propositions as a service either over the long term or to hand back to the client 
  • Leveraging your healthcare and public health expertise and industry knowledge to advise and implement industry-leading practices to make our payer and provider clients market-leading enterprises 

Your Experience 

Accenture Healthcare Management Consultants are forward-thinking, well-rounded people with a record of outstanding academic performance and high learning agility. We’re looking for individuals who can work in a flexible and entrepreneurial way.  

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Basic Qualifications 

  • Advanced Degrees concentrating in Health Administration (e.g., MHA, MHSA, MPH, or similar healthcare-focused advanced degree) 
  • Anticipated graduation date by September 2026 at time of application 

Preferred Qualifications 

  • Relevant industry, functional and/or strategic experience including financial and data modeling skills 
  • Experience using data and process analyses to create organizational value 
  • Project management proficiency (e.g., ability to utilize Microsoft PowerPoint, Excel, and other apps to create rigor around team governance and structure)  
  • Superior academic achievement and proven leadership qualities 
  • Strong problem solving, structuring and analytical skills 
  • Excellent communication (written and oral) and interpersonal skills 
  • Eagerness to contribute to a team-oriented environment 
  • Flexibility to accommodate client travel requirements, when applicable 

The application deadline for this position is September 30, 2024.

Compensation at Accenture varies depending on a wide array of factors, which may include but are not limited to the specific office location, role, skill set, and level of experience. As required by local law, Accenture provides a reasonable range of compensation for roles that may be hired in  California, Colorado, District of Columbia, Maryland, New York or Washington as set forth below. 

Information on benefits is here. 

Role Location                                    Annual Salary Range

California                                          $63,200 to $188,600

Colorado                                           $63,200 to $163,000

District of Columbia                       $67,300 to $173,500

New York                                          $58,500 to $188,600

Maryland                                          $58,500 to $150,900

Washington                                      $67,300 to $173,500

About Accenture

Accenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the world’s leading businesses, governments and other organizations build their digital core, optimize their operations, accelerate revenue growth and enhance citizen services—creating tangible value at speed and scale. We are a talent- and innovation-led company with 750,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Technology is at the core of change today, and we are one of the world’s leaders in helping drive that change, with strong ecosystem relationships. We combine our strength in technology and leadership in cloud, data and AI with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise and global delivery capability. We are uniquely able to deliver tangible outcomes because of our broad range of services, solutions and assets across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X and Song. These capabilities, together with our culture of shared success and commitment to creating 360° value, enable us to help our clients reinvent and build trusted, lasting relationships. We measure our success by the 360° value we create for our clients, each other, our shareholders, partners and communities. Visit us at www.accenture.com

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