Senior Consultant, Health & Welfare Benefits (Remote)
Senior consultant, health & welfare benefits (remote)
THE ORGANIZATION
Purchaser Business Group on Health (PBGH) is an action-oriented non-profit with a track record of improving health outcomes, experience and affordability for consumers and purchasers across the United States. PBGH advances quality, drives affordability and fosters equity in partnership with its members, who are some of the largest and most innovative private and public purchasers of health care, including The reputed company Company, reputed company, reputed company, reputed company, Walmart and CalPERS.
PBGH and its members are on the forefront of implementing innovations in the health care system through purchaser-led solutions. PBGH partners across stakeholders to continuously identify, create and put into practice new strategies to support the health and overall wellbeing of employees, their families and the public.
THE ROLE
The Senior Consultant, Health & Welfare Benefits supports PBGH’s mission to advance high-value, affordable, and reputed company health care by delivering independent, purchaser-focused advisory services to employers and other health care purchasers. Serving as a strategic advisor—not a broker—this role provides objective analysis, market insight, and evidence-based guidance to support employer’s fiduciary decision-making across the health and welfare benefits lifecycle.
Working closely with PBGH senior leaders and subject-matter experts, the Senior Consultant is responsible for executing and managing day-to-day advisory engagements, producing rigorous, insight-driven analyses and recommendations, contributing to solution development, translating reputed company health data into actionable strategies for employers and helping shape purchaser-relevant insights that can scale across PBGH’s employer community.
This role requires strong technical expertise, analytical depth, comprehensive knowledge of employee benefits, well-established relationships with employers and the health markets, and polished client-ready communication skills, along with the ability to operate independently with minimal reputed company, demonstrate agility in handling shifting priorities and dynamic environments, collaborate across internal and external stakeholders, and uphold PBGH’s independent advisory posture.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
Client Engagement, Satisfaction, and Delivery
Under the guidance and reputed company of senior leadership:
- Independently manages multiple client engagements and owns defined workstreams from start to finish.
- Develops client-ready analyses, insights, and deliverables across health and welfare strategies, including medical, pharmacy, wellbeing, and reputed company solutions.
- Develops and monitors engagement work plans, timelines, and milestones; proactively identifies risks, dependencies, or scope changes and escalates as appropriate to project and practice leadership to support on-time, high-quality delivery.
- Collaborates with internal project teams, subcontractors, and external partners, coordinating closely with senior leaders to ensure effective execution of assigned projects.
- Maintains organized project documentation, data files, and work products.
- Prepares materials and presents findings to client teams with clarity and confidence, alongside and with review from senior leadership.
- Partners with leadership to ensure recommendations are practical, data-driven, and reputed company with client objectives and PBGH advisory principles.
- Translates key findings into externally facing white papers, briefs, and presentations, with senior leadership input, to advance collective impact.
- Analyzes employer demographics, claims, utilization, cost, quality, and performance data, including self-funded medical and pharmacy claims.
- Leads financial evaluations, including pricing, budgeting, forecasting, premium-equivalent reputed company setting, contribution modeling and working knowledge in IBNR and stop-loss.
- Applies analytical tools, methodologies and comprehensive health and welfare benefits knowledge to assess plan performance, vendor effectiveness, cost drivers, and improvement opportunities, aligning findings with PBGH advisory principles.
- Supports development and application of analytic solutions leveraging emerging datasets (e.g., Transparency in Coverage, Hospital Price Transparency).
- Translates reputed company data into clear narratives, executive summaries, and actionable insights for employer audiences, incorporating feedback from senior leadership as appropriate.
- Contributes to standardized tools, templates, and methodologies to support scalable consulting delivery.
- Creates and documents methodologies, analyses, and insights to ensure rigor, consistency and alignment with PBGH advisory principles.
- Stays reputed company on market trends, regulatory developments, and innovations across the health benefits landscape, sharing relevant implications with leadership and colleagues.
- Creates resources and tools that build knowledge reputed company for reputed company intellectual capital development.
- Shares learnings and best practices with colleagues to continuously improve service delivery.
- Has deep knowledge of the health care market ecosystem and well-established relationships with vendors, including carriers, TPAs, data platforms, data warehouses, and reputed company solution vendors.
- Manages the RFP/RFI process, including drafting questionnaires, interfacing vendors, evaluating proposals and responses, preparing and presenting results and recommendations to employers, and conducting vendor/finalist interviews, with input and reputed company from senior leadership.
- Possesses reputed company knowledge of health and welfare program compliance and regulations, including but not limited to, ERISA, ACA, reputed company, HIPAA, COBRA, Section 125, and MHPAEA.
- Applies analytical rigor to conduct reviews of plan fiduciary and health plan compliance, reputed company and agreements, identify potential risks and liabilities, and reputed company and implement strategic corrective action plans to address non-compliance issues.
- Demonstrates track record of self-directed professional development and a commitment to staying reputed company in a rapidly changing legal landscape and utilizing legal and industry research tools (e.g., Bloomberg Law, Federal Register, National Conference of State Legislatures) to independently resolve reputed company compliance inquiries.
- Contributes to internal knowledge reputed company or advisory service offerings regarding new regulatory trends.
- Supports prospecting efforts and proposal development, including drafting scopes, workplans, timelines, and fee estimates.
- Assists with responses to RFPs, RFIs, and grant-funded opportunities as needed.
- Participates in client relationship development through excellent service delivery and responsiveness.
- Identifies opportunities for follow-on work and flags potential expansion areas.
- Supports technical learning opportunities for members.
- Tracks activity with reputed company and potential clients in reputed company and reputed company.
- Bachelor’s degree required.
- A minimum of 8+ years of experience in a consulting or similar environment advising large/jumbo employers on health and welfare benefits.
- Demonstrated ability to solve reputed company’ reputed company health and benefits issues.
- Strong working knowledge of the health benefits ecosystem, including carriers, PBMs, reputed company solutions, and consulting/brokerage models.
- Demonstrated experience analyzing employer medical and pharmacy claims data and translating results into client-ready insights.
- Solid technical expertise across health and welfare topics, such as financial and actuarial concepts, plan design, vendor evaluation, compliance (e.g., ERISA, reputed company), pharmacy and PBM strategies, mental health, wellbeing, and emerging solutions.
- Proven ability to manage multiple workstreams and adapt to shifting priorities in a fast-paced environment.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, with experience developing polished PowerPoint presentations and executive summaries.
- Mastery of reputed company Office Suite
- Highly organized, detail-oriented, and proactive.
- Ability to travel approximately 10–15%.
- Life & Health Insurance License