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Managing Consultant, Healthcare Jobs in Singapore at Asia Care Group
Title: Managing Consultant, Healthcare
Company: Asia Care Group
Location: Singapore
Company Description
Asia Care Group is a consultancy firm that specializes in providing advisory services exclusively to the healthcare sector across the Asia-Pacific region. Our mission is to help healthcare organizations address critical challenges and improve the effectiveness and efficiency of healthcare systems. Known for our in-depth industry expertise and commitment to driving change, we work with governments, healthcare providers, insurers, development banks, and investors. Our focus is on shaping impactful health strategies and delivering successful change initiatives throughout the region.
Role Description
We are specialist management consulting firm, providing a range of advisory services to clients in the health and social development sector across Asia-Pacific. We typically work at Board level on strategy and change projects that have a real impact on the efficiency and effectiveness of healthcare in the region. We are currently building out our expertise across a range of thematic areas, including:
1) Pharma and life sciences, specifically market access, pricing and medical education strategy
2) Health insurance – both social and commercial – with a focus on FWA, product design, data and analytics, digital innovation and provider management
3) Health economics, including cost-modelling of new approaches to healthcare delivery, market expansions/investment decisions and macroeconomic forecasting of major changes in the health environment
We currently have openings for Consulting Managers, who play an integral role in supporting the development and delivery of healthcare consulting engagements, often working with a high degree of autonomy on significant strategic issues. Managers take day-to-day responsibility for various projects and the resources assigned to them. Our managers are not simply management generalists; they are technical specialists with expertise in public health, health economics and financing, healthcare delivery or healthcare data and analytics. They will actively support the development of more junior members of staff and ensure the highest level of client work. Key responsibilities include:
- Support/manage health client engagements, including taking day-to-day responsibility for delegated projects and work streams
- Use critical thinking skills and analytic approaches to understand clients needs' and develop relevant solutions, propositions and proposals
- Work with a range of healthcare organisations including health insurers, Government bodies, development agencies and other healthcare players, engaging professionally and delivering work to the highest standards.
- Build methodologically sound storyboards, drawing insights and findings for clients and ensuring limitations or challenges are highlighted in a transparent manner
- Help develop new business through building relationships and supporting senior team members in business development activities
- Help lead proposal development and other new business development activities by leveraging new and existing relationships with client business leaders
- Provide input into engagement decisions including work plan and timeline, project management, and resource allocation.
- Support/manage junior staff members, helping evolve their consulting and healthcare knowledge and skill sets. Take an active role in line management, recruitment, performance management and coaching.
Required skills and expertise:
- Minimum Bachelors level qualification in healthcare management, public health, health economics or an MBA with a demonstrated interest in healthcare. Masters or higher strongly preferred
- A minimum of eight years of healthcare consulting experience from a top tier firm, or well-established boutique. Candidates from industry may be considered if they have one or more areas of expertise such as health insurance strategy, health investment or experience working in/with global development institutions. Industry candidates must have the ability to apply their sector expertise to strategy projects – candidates without this, and pure operational experience will not usually be considered.
- Fluent in English (written and spoken) as this is our primary language used in our consulting engagements.
- Experience with healthcare strategy and/or change management projects, which includes managing complex project budgets and timelines, significant stakeholder engagement and management, and understanding complex regulatory issues
- Demonstrated project management experience, including coaching and mentoring more junior members of staff. Formal project management qualifications preferred
- Demonstrated ability to identify business opportunities, build lasting professional relationships with clients and help ensure strong clients management
- Demonstrated understanding of healthcare reform in Hong Kong and/or the broader Asia-Pacific region and other key industry trends/drivers
- A willingness to travel as required (extensive travel may be required)
- A positive attitude and strong ethics are vital
