Manager, Health Plan Consulting

With over 50 years of proven success, ECG, ranked as a Best Small Firm to Work For 2024 by Consulting Magazine , is the most experienced healthcare consulting firm in the U.S. Working exclusively in this space, our people prove—over and over again—their ability to solve challenges for providers and achieve better outcomes for patients. Across our eight office locations, we’re seeking individuals who will show the courage to find innovative solutions and make a direct impact on the delivery of healthcare services across our country.

What’s in It for You: Consult with Purpose

At ECG, our consultants are working to create a healthier future for every patient. By creating partnerships with our clients and asking the tough questions, we provide honest, tailored solutions that empower them to maximize their resources. Together with our clients, we’re making healthcare more accessible, sustainable, and effective for the patients and communities they support. We’re looking for individuals to join our passionate team, combining experience and courage to make impactful changes in healthcare. ECG is committed to ensuring a supportive, inclusive, and equitable work environment that embraces DEI, where we recognize performance, communicate openly and transparently, and value work-life balance.

Join Our Payer Services Practice

Our Payer Services team is dedicated to serving payers, including regional health plans, provider-sponsored health plans, and other risk-bearing entities. We also support health systems, hospitals, medical groups, and other providers seeking to launch or grow their own health plans.

Payer Services offers a broad range of consulting solutions tailored to the evolving needs of our clients. Our strength lies in combining robust data and analytical capabilities with deep subject matter expertise to solve multifaceted challenges across the healthcare landscape.

We assist our payer clients primarily in the four areas below.

Competitive Positioning : We utilize advanced analytical models and proprietary datasets to evaluate how our clients are reimbursing providers compared to competitors. We then identify opportunities to position their business more effectively in the markets they serve.

Strategic Growth : We advise health plan executives on market expansion strategies, membership growth, new-product design, and joint venture opportunities. Our work helps clients navigate regulatory constraints, competitive pressures, and evolving consumer expectations.

Finance : We focus on improving financial performance by addressing revenue optimization, administrative cost containment, risk adjustment accuracy, benefit design, and overall plan margin. Our strategies are designed to strengthen the financial sustainability of our clients’ operations.

Operations : We help clients design, evaluate, and optimize core health plan operations, including claims processing, utilization management, provider network administration, and enrollment workflows. Our team identifies operational inefficiencies, supports technology and vendor assessments, and implements solutions that improve performance, compliance, and member experience.

Your Opportunity with ECG: Manager

As a manager at ECG, you’ll be an important part of our consulting team. Not only will you partner with some of the industry’s best to reach your highest goals, but you will also make a real difference in people’s lives and grow personally and professionally while doing so. Here, no two days or projects are alike, which means you’ll have a lot to learn and plenty of support to help you succeed.

Your Responsibilities May Include

• Leading client engagements focused on payer strategy, financial performance, and operational transformation.
• Managing work streams across multiple projects, including work plans, schedules, and budgets, to ensure high-quality deliverables and timely execution.
• Conducting quantitative and qualitative analyses using payer data (e.g., claims, enrollment, pricing) to inform strategic recommendations.
• Developing models and tools to assess reimbursement benchmarks, pricing competitiveness, and cost containment opportunities.
• Facilitating client meetings, strategic planning sessions, and executive-level presentations.
• Collaborating with internal teams and senior leaders to design and implement solutions that align with client goals.
• Communicating project progress, synthesizing input, and ensuring accountability for project outcomes.
• Managing client relationships and identifying opportunities for follow-on engagements.
• Supporting new-business development through proposal drafting and participation in pitch discussions.
• Coaching and mentoring junior team members, including performance feedback and knowledge sharing.
• Contributing to internal practice development through methodology refinement and technical expertise.
• Staying informed on market trends, regulatory developments, and emerging challenges affecting payers and risk-bearing providers.

• Demonstrating commitment to professional growth and modeling work-life balance as a successful consulting leader.
• Representing ECG in professional, alumni, and industry networks.

Our Expectations of You

• Strong knowledge of and passion for the healthcare industry
• Bachelor’s degree required; advanced degree (e.g., MHA, MPH, MBA, JD) strongly preferred
• 5–8 years of relevant experience in health plan consulting, health plan operations, or payer strategy
• Deep understanding of the healthcare payer landscape, including Medicare Advantage, Medicaid managed care, and/or commercial insurance
• Demonstrated experience leading complex projects or work streams with multiple stakeholders
• Proficiency in healthcare data analysis, including claims, pricing, enrollment, and/or cost/utilization datasets
• Strong communication skills, with the ability to synthesize complex topics into clear, actionable recommendations
• Experience developing client-ready deliverables (Microsoft PowerPoint, Microsoft Excel models, and written reports and memos)
• Comfortable interacting with senior-level client executives and facilitating strategic discussions
• Ability to work both independently and collaboratively within fast-paced, client-facing environments
• Ability to travel at least 25% of the time

Job Locations

• Preferred locations: Boston, Chicago, Washington, DC
• Other locations: Atlanta, Dallas, Minneapolis, San Diego
• Hybrid work schedule, with a minimum of two days per week in office when not traveling for a client engagement

Schedule

Full time/exempt

What You Can Expect of Us

To reward our driven, innovative, and passionate employees, we’ve built a company culture that’s centered on performance. We offer an attractive compensation package, challenging work, and an entrepreneurial environment where you can take ownership of your career—and get out as much as you put in.

The estimated base salary range for this job is $150,000 – $176,000 annually. It represents a good faith estimate of the range that ECG reasonably expects to pay at the time of the job posting. The actual salary paid will vary based on multiple factors, including but not limited to years of experience, special skills, and market changes. This job is eligible to participate in ECG’s annual incentive compensation program, which reflects ECG’s pay-for-performance philosophy. The job is also eligible to participate in ECG’s benefit plans, which include medical, dental, and vision coverage; a 401(k) matching program; unlimited PTO; and other wellness programs.

About ECG

With knowledge and expertise built over the course of 50-plus years, ECG is a national consulting firm that is redefining healthcare together with its clients. ECG offers a broad range of strategic, financial, operational, and technology-enabled consulting services. ECG is an industry leader, offering specialized expertise to clients across the full continuum of care, including hospitals, health systems, medical groups, academic medical centers, children’s hospitals, cancer centers, ambulatory surgery centers, investors, and payers/health plans.

Apply now and make an impact for years to come.

To begin the recruitment process, please submit your resume via our career site at .

ECG provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to sex, race, color, religion, national origin, citizenship, ancestry, age, disability, pregnancy, medical condition (cancer and genetic characteristics), genetic information, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, marital status, military or veteran status, or any other legally protected characteristic. People of color are encouraged to apply. We participate in E-Verify as part of our onboarding process. Having the permanent legal right to work in the United States is a condition of employment. ECG is not currently able to provide assistance to candidates requiring sponsorship or a visa.

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