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Principal, Management Consulting | Healthcare, Payer

Sapient Corporation
Chicago, IL Full Time
POSTED ON 8/2/2026
AVAILABLE BEFORE 10/2/2026
Job Description

Overview

As a Principal, you will actively participate in the growth and development of the Management Consulting practice at Publicis Sapient. Your role will focus on shaping ambitious Digital Business Transformations for our clients within the healthcare payer industry, delivering strategic advice throughout the transformation lifecycle. You will work alongside multidisciplinary teams of management consultants, experience strategists, and technology engineers to solve complex business challenges for leading health plans.

We are seeking experienced management consultants with deep healthcare payer expertise who have successfully led client engagements, managed consulting teams, and partnered with executive stakeholders to deliver measurable business outcomes.

Qualifications

Your Impact

  • Lead large-scale digital and business transformation engagements for healthcare payer clients.
  • Serve as a trusted advisor to senior client executives, developing strategic recommendations that improve operational performance, member experience, and business value.
  • Manage and mentor multidisciplinary consulting teams, ensuring high-quality delivery and professional development of team members.
  • Actively contribute to the growth of the Management Consulting practice by supporting recruiting, mentoring consultants, defining best practices, and developing thought leadership.
  • Collaborate across strategy, customer experience, data, and technology teams to deliver innovative transformation solutions.
  • Build and maintain strong executive-level client relationships while identifying opportunities to expand engagements.

Qualifications

Skills & Experience

  • 8 years of Strategy and/or Management Consulting experience, preferably with a global consulting firm.
  • Demonstrated consulting experience serving healthcare payer organizations.
  • Experience leading large-scale business and digital transformation initiatives for healthcare payer clients.
  • Proven experience managing consulting teams, leading workstreams, and mentoring consultants across multiple engagements.
  • Strong executive presence with experience advising C-suite and senior healthcare executives.
  • Excellent written, verbal, analytical, and presentation skills.
  • Exceptional structured problem-solving and quantitative analysis capabilities.
  • Experience with operating model transformation, business process improvement, or enterprise strategy within healthcare.
  • Appreciation for Agile ways of working and technology-enabled transformation.
  • Ability to build trusted client relationships and deliver measurable business value.
  • Willingness to travel to client sites as needed.

Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience working with health plans across Commercial, Medicare Advantage, Medicaid, or ACA Exchange lines of business.
  • Knowledge of healthcare payer operations including Claims, Enrollment, Member Services, Provider Operations, Care Management, Utilization Management, Payment Integrity, Value-Based Care, and Digital Member Experience.
  • Experience leading technology-enabled transformations involving modernization, cloud, data & analytics, AI, or customer experience initiatives.
Additional Information

Pay Range: $180,000 - $220,000

The range shown represents a grouping of relevant ranges currently in use at Publicis Sapient. Actual range for this position may differ, depending on location and specific skillset required for the work itself. Benefits of working here: Flexible vacation policy; time is not limited, allocated, or accrued 16 paid holidays throughout the year Generous parental leave and new parent transition program Tuition reimbursement Corporate gift matching program

As part of our dedication to an inclusive and diverse workforce, Publicis Sapient is committed to Equal Employment Opportunity without regard for race, color, national origin, ethnicity, gender, protected veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, or religion. We are also committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in our job application procedures. If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, you may contact us at hiring@publicis.sapient.com. Your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.


Publicis Sapient is a digital transformation partner helping established organizations get to their future, digitally-enabled state, both in the way they work and the way they serve their customers. We help unlock value through a start-up mindset and modern methods, fusing strategy, consulting and customer experience with agile engineering and problem-solving creativity. As digital pioneers with 20,000 people and 53 offices around the globe, our experience spanning technology, data sciences, consulting and customer obsession – combined with our culture of curiosity and relentlessness – enables us to accelerate our clients’ businesses through designing the products and services their customers truly value. Publicis Sapient is the digital business transformation hub of Publicis Groupe. For more information, visit publicissapient.com. As part of our dedication to an inclusive and diverse workforce, Publicis Sapient is committed to Equal Employment Opportunity without regard for race, color, national origin, ethnicity, gender, protected veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, or religion. We are also committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in our job application procedures. If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, you may contact us at hiring@publicissapient.com or you may call us at 1-617-621-0200.

 

Salary : $180,000 - $220,000

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