Physician Consultant - Specialist

Your Growth The Social, Healthcare and Public Entities (SHaPE) Practice is one of 10 industry practices within the firm and has a mission of measurably improving individuals? lives, livelihoods and health and creating safer and more just communities around the world. SHaPE serves governments, donors, healthcare payors/providers and non-governmental organizations on topics including health, public finance, education, defense, economic development and beyond.

Specifically, this role will be within McKinsey?s Clinical and Risk Excellence (CARE) Domain which aims to deepen impact and rigor of our analytics and client service with clinical experience and intelligence and transform lives by creating new capabilities to enable value-based care. You will be working with McKinsey data scientists, engineers, clinician leaders and client teams who are bringing solutions and capabilities for stakeholders across the healthcare ecosystem.

McKinsey?s Social, Healthcare and Public Entities Practice fosters innovation driven by advanced analytics, user experience design thinking, predictive forecasting, and new product development. We are a community of entrepreneurs within McKinsey dedicated to using technology to accelerate meaningful impact at our clients. Through self-service access to analytics and data, software as a service solution, strategic acquisitions, and a vibrant ecosystem of alliances, we are redefining what it means to work with McKinsey.

Our capabilities are foundational to multiple high-profile initiatives and have been core to the practice in delivering organization wide transformation programs for payors (public and private) and providers. The team has grown to 300+ colleagues globally over the last four years. It is a unique mix of healthcare experts, physicians, statisticians, engineers, data scientists, and more.

Your ImpactYou will participate in client engagements focused on healthcare value, including the development of clinical policy improvement solutions and innovative payment models with the goal of making healthcare better, more affordable, and more accessible for millions of people around the world.

In this role, you will participate in and, in some cases, lead the development of recommendations and advise teams on evidence-based medicine, clinical practice, and healthcare policies. You will also represent the CARE team, together with other senior McKinsey colleagues, in public-facing forums including conferences and expert panels and engage in authorship of the Healthcare Practice?s related articles for peer-review and other external publications.

You?ll work in teams of typically 3-5 consultants, playing an active role in all aspects of client engagement. This includes gathering and analyzing information, formulating, and testing hypotheses, and developing and communicating recommendations. You?ll also have the opportunity to present results to client management and implement recommendations in collaboration with client team members. This role is ideal for clinicians who seek to become proficient in the business of medicine.

You will serve on client project teams alongside traditional consultants, gaining broad exposure to health care businesses and business problems. You will receive extensive day-to-day mentorship and apprenticeship from senior consultants.

Your qualifications and skills
? Clinician (e.g., MD/DO/RN) degree and clinical experience required
? Experience in nephrology, women's health, or oncology strongly preferred
? Clinical practice experience
? Experience with population health quality metrics including, healthcare outcomes, health plans and provider networks is a plus
? Ability to counsel and influence senior clinical business leaders (e.g., CMOs)
? Good steward of resources, with a track record of using resources effectively