Workday Healthcare Engagement Leader - Senior Director

Hybrid

Chicago - 550 Van Buren

New York - 1166 Ave of Americas

Full time

JR-0015710

Huron helps its clients drive growth, enhance performance and sustain leadership in the markets they serve. We help healthcare organizations build innovation capabilities and accelerate key growth initiatives, enabling organizations to own the future, instead of being disrupted by it. Together, we empower clients to create sustainable growth, optimize internal processes and deliver better consumer outcomes.

Health systems, hospitals and medical clinics are under immense pressure to improve clinical outcomes and reduce the cost of providing patient care. Investing in new partnerships, clinical services and technology is not enough to create meaningful and substantive change. To succeed long-term, healthcare organizations must empower leaders, clinicians, employees, affiliates and communities to build cultures that foster innovation to achieve the best outcomes for patients.

Joining the Huron team means you’ll help our clients evolve and adapt to the rapidly changing healthcare environment and optimize existing business operations, improve clinical outcomes, create a more consumer-centric healthcare experience, and drive physician, patient and employee engagement across the enterprise.

Join our team as the expert you are now and create your future.

At Huron, Senior Directors belong where leaders are elevated and celebrated. They effectively collaborate with Huron and client senior leaders to design and implement goal-achieving solutions while delivering remarkable results (ones that meet but usually exceed specified engagement objectives). Throughout the process, they construct enduring relationships that benefit the firm in profound ways including selling additional project work into clients.

Their talents and leadership instill passion and followership in clients, juniors, and management. So if you’re defined by ongoing progress—if you can lead teams, create solutions, and masterfully communicate on every level…If you’re a consummate professional, a prospective champion of Huron's core values, and an inspiration of confidence and trust… then you can and will—leave your mark on the future of professional services.

We see what’s possible in you and help you achieve it.

Key Responsibilities

Executive Client Leadership & Relationship Management

• Serve as the program executive and trusted advisor for Healthcare Workday engagements, preferably at leading health systems and academic medical centers.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with the c-suite, including CIOs, CFOs, CHROs, CMOs, and CNOs.
• Partner with senior client stakeholders to align project objectives with organizational goals and strategic priorities.
• Anticipate client challenges and proactively recommend solutions that drive operational improvement and long-term value.
• Lead executive steering committees and governance discussions while providing strategic direction and status communication.
• Serve as the senior escalation point for complex engagement, relationship, delivery, or governance issues.

Program & Delivery Leadership

• Partnering with Huron Managing Directors/Principals, serve as the Delivery Leader of large-scale Workday transformation engagements including post-production support engagements.
• Ensure successful execution across scope, timeline, budget, quality, and client satisfaction objectives.
• Guide delivery teams through strategic decision-making, risk mitigation, organizational change management, and issue resolution.
• Champion Huron implementation methodologies, delivery standards, and Healthcare leading practices.
• Oversee program financial performance, including forecasts, margins, resource planning, billing, and overall engagement health.
• Ensure delivery teams maintain accountability for project outcomes and client commitments.

Healthcare Industry Advisory

• Serve as a subject matter advisor on healthcare administration, operations, and technology-enabled transformation.
• Lead conversations around organizational effectiveness, workforce transformation, finance modernization, revenue cycle, clinical operations, supply chain, and shared services strategies.
• Advise clients on industry trends, leading practices, regulatory and compliance considerations, and emerging opportunities within the Healthcare ecosystem.
• Facilitate executive-level discussions regarding Agentic AI, future-state operating models, and digital transformation strategies.
• Provide strategic guidance regarding Workday roadmap alignment and organizational adoption strategies.

Leadership & Talent Development

• Lead, mentor, and develop Engagement Leaders, Project Managers, Directors, and consulting teams.
• Foster a high-performance culture focused on client success, collaboration, accountability, and continuous improvement.
• Coach future leaders on engagement management, executive communication, delivery excellence, and business development.
• Support recruiting, onboarding, professional development, and retention initiatives across the Workday practice.
• Promote Huron's core values and leadership principles while developing future practice leaders.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Business, Information Systems, Computer Science, Human Resources, Healthcare Administration, or related field.
• 10+ years of experience in consulting, information technology, enterprise software, or digital transformation leadership.
• 10+ years of experience leading complex enterprise application implementations and transformation programs.
• Prior Workday implementation or Workday ecosystem experience.
• Previous consulting experience focused on HR, Finance, Supply Chain, Payroll, or Enterprise Transformation initiatives.
• Experience serving Healthcare organizations, including hospitals, health systems, academic medical centers, or integrated delivery networks.
• Demonstrated success leading large-scale cloud ERP, HCM, Finance, or Supply Chain transformation initiatives.
• Experience with contract negotiations, alliance management, and complex sales pursuits.
• Demonstrated experience serving as a trusted advisor to executive stakeholders.
• Strong financial acumen, including engagement forecasting, budgeting, pricing, and profitability management.
• Experience managing large, geographically dispersed, and matrixed project teams.
• Proven experience leading multiple projects and competing priorities simultaneously.
• Willingness and ability to travel as required.

Position Level

Senior Director

Country

United States of America

At Huron, we’re redefining what a consulting organization can be. We go beyond advice to deliver results that last. We inherit our client’s challenges as if they were our own. We help them transform for the future. We advocate. We make a difference. And we intelligently, passionately, relentlessly do great work…together.

Are you the kind of person who stands ready to jump in, roll up your sleeves and transform ideas into action? Then come discover Huron.

Whether you have years of experience or come right out of college, we invite you to explore our many opportunities. Find out how you can use your talents and develop your skills to make an impact immediately. Learn about how our culture and values provide you with the kind of environment that invites new ideas and innovation. Come see how we collaborate with each other in a culture of learning, coaching, diversity and inclusion. And hear about our unwavering commitment to make a difference in partnership with our clients, shareholders, communities and colleagues.

Huron Consulting Group offers a competitive compensation and benefits package including medical, dental, and vision coverage to employees and dependents; a 401(k) plan with a generous employer match; an employee stock purchase plan; a generous Paid Time Off policy; and paid parental leave and adoption assistance. Our Wellness Program supports employee total well-being by providing free annual health screenings and coaching, bank at work, and on-site workshops, as well as ongoing programs recognizing major events in the lives of our employees throughout the year. All benefits and programs are subject to applicable eligibility requirements.

Huron is fully committed to providing equal employment opportunity to job applicants and employees in recruitment, hiring, employment, compensation, benefits, promotions, transfers, training, and all other terms and conditions of employment. Huron will not discriminate on the basis of age, race, color, gender, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, pregnancy, national origin, religion, veteran status, physical or mental disability, genetic information, creed, citizenship or any other status protected by laws or regulations in the locations where we do business. We endeavor to maintain a drug-free workplace.