Senior Consultant | Strategy

Love medicine is who we are, it's what we do, it's why people want to work here. If you’re looking for a job to love, apply today. Scheduled Weekly Hours: 40 Position: Senior Consultant | Strategy Location: Hybrid. Must be within a reasonable commute to La Crosse, WI for periodic on-site needs. Employment Type: Full-Time. Subject to Emplify Health salary and benefits. Emplify Health is seeking a Senior Consultant, Strategy to join our team. This role requires a dynamic, personable professional with excellent facilitation skills, the ability to connect with diverse personalities, and a high-energy approach to driving organizational success. About the Role: As a Senior Consultant, Strategy, you will play a critical role in managing and facilitating the strategic planning process across regional, enterprise, and service line levels. You will serve as the administrative lead for the governance team, ensuring thorough preparation, clear communication, and effective execution of governance activities. Your expertise in strategic planning and innovation will empower you to educate others on key processes such as the Performance and Process Summit (PPS) and to deliver impactful presentations to leaders and service lines throughout the organization. Key Responsibilities: Design and facilitate function-level strategic planning, prioritizing stakeholders and aligning plans with enterprise goals. Manage extensive prep work for governance team meetings, including agenda setting and participant readiness. Analyze internal and external data, including benchmarking and healthcare trends, to inform strategic decisions. Lead strategic planning sessions with service line VPs and operational leaders, guiding them through SWOT analyses, gap assessments, and success measurement frameworks. Act as a subject matter expert in Emplify Health’s strategic planning framework and innovation initiatives, teaching and spreading these concepts organization-wide. Provide actionable recommendations to the Director of Strategy to enhance organizational effectiveness and operational efficiencies. Identify new opportunities and recommend innovative strategies to support growth and continuous improvement. Qualifications: Bachelor’s degree in Business, Healthcare, or a related field required; MBA or related Master’s degree preferred. Minimum 10 years of business experience, including 3-4 years in high-level strategic roles. Proven experience with benchmarking and utilizing external data to guide decision-making. Strong facilitation, organizational, and time management skills. Ability to work effectively with diverse personalities and maintain positive energy. Valid Driver’s License required. Why Emplify Health? Join a physician-led enterprise that combines the strengths of Bellin Health and Gundersen Health System, now Emplify Health, serving communities across Wisconsin, Iowa, Minnesota, and Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. Be part of a collaborative team dedicated to innovation, excellence, and improving healthcare outcomes. If you need assistance with any portion of the application or have questions about the position, please contact HR-Recruitment@gundersenhealth.org or call 608-775-0267. We inspire your best life by relentlessly caring, learning and innovating. This is our purpose. Together with our values — belonging, respect, excellence, accountability, teamwork and humility — our pillars set our foundation and our future. Equal Opportunity Employer Around here, loving your job is part of the job. Join our mission in changing healthcare while finding a career you'll love! Gundersen Health System offers a proud, local history spanning more than 100 years. Our personalized patient care model is only the beginning of what you will experience as we foster population health transformation and innovation to serve our communities and you. We've made it a priority to enrich the lives of our employees as they find a career they love. Using each employee’s unique talents and passions, Gundersen is committed to delivering exceptional patient and family-centered care to the communities we serve. You can be part of an exciting, highly adaptable and mission-driven organization with a work environment that supports you personally and professionally and a work culture where you are valued and appreciated offering an employee-first culture, work-life balance, and career advancement & growth opportunities. This culture allows our organization to attract elite talent, like yourself! What You Can Expect: Empowerment to shape your work environment, encouragement to improve processes and create efficiencies, and support when seeking opportunities for growth Culture that encourages self-care and provides you with opportunities to be your best self at work and at home Competitive compensation and comprehensive benefits packages, as applicable, ensuring your comfort and well-being as a valuable team member Support for your career growth through Professional Development Opportunities, our Tuition Investment Program, Career Development Center, and online continuing education courses Inside our walls and our neighborhoods, we deliver world-class medical care and the right amount of love. We call it LOVE MEDICINE and it’s more than our practice. It is who we are. Gundersen Health System, based in La Crosse, WI, is the leading provider of primary and specialized care in western Wisconsin, southeast Minnesota, and northeast Iowa; serving more than 500,000 residents throughout 22 counties. Our physician-led, not-for-profit healthcare system includes a 325-bed teaching hospital, tertiary referral center, and Level II Trauma Center; community clinics; 6 affiliate critical access hospitals; nursing homes; behavioral health services; vision centers; pharmacies; and air and ground ambulance services. Together, we inspire your best life by relentlessly caring, learning, and innovating. We deliver Love Medicine every day to change lives in our communities and enrich the lives of our employees. Select Remote/Hybrid Eligible under More search to see our remote-eligible openings. A rewarding career and an excellent quality of life awaits you. Learn more about our excellence in patient care, education, research, culture, and something we call Love Medicine at www.gundersenhealth.org/careers/life.