Business Optimization Consultant Jobs (NOW HIRING)

Business Optimization Consultant Sr.

Hybrid role (3 days/week in office) at our Burlington, Renton, Spokane, Vancouver, Portland, Medford, Salt Lake City, Boise, Lewiston, Fargo offices.

Candidates must reside within commutable distance of that location or be willing to relocate.

Build a career with purpose. Join our Cause to create a person-focused and economically sustainable health care system.

Who We Are Looking For:

Every day, Cambia's dedicated team of Business Optimization Consultants are living our mission to make health care easier and lives better. As a member of the Health Services Business Optimization team, our Business Optimization Consultant Sr. applies analytical skills, project management, and subject matter expertise to identify opportunities for improvement, design solutions, and manage improvement efforts. This role leads business process analysis and solution design activities by working effectively across the organization with business, clinical, technical subject matter experts. The Clinical Business Analyst brings a business-oriented, cross-functional perspective to leaders and project teams to solve problems and create system solutions - all in service of creating a person-focused health care experience.

What if your analytical skills could directly impact thousands of lives? Are you ready to contribute to strategic projects that transform health care from the inside out? Then this role may be the perfect fit.

What You Bring to Cambia:

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in business management, computer science, healthcare administration or related field

• Minimum 8+ years' experience in defining and analyzing business requirements, process modeling, functional systems design or configuration and/or acceptance testing or equivalent combination of education and experience.

Skills and Attributes:

• Perform analysis of medium-to-large scale business processes including current state discovery, future state design, gap analysis, and creation of strategic recommendations

• Utilize formal performance improvement techniques (process mapping, business cases, problem solving)

• Create comprehensive documentation through formal analysis techniques and develop strong testing documentation including test cases and test plans

• Demonstrate strong proficiency with business analysis tools and Microsoft Office Suite (Excel, Visio, PowerPoint)

• Skilled in using data to present information to inform strategy and decisions for senior leaders

• Lead analysis activities and document work through creation of project management artifacts (stakeholder diagrams, business cases, requirements management plans, project plans)

• Knowledge of formal methods such as Lean, Six Sigma, change management (ADKAR), and Agile software development or project management approaches (preferred)

• Experience with AI tools and technologies to enhance productivity and decision-making in professional settings highly desired

• Facilitate data and requirements gathering activities with groups of various sizes; translate and communicate technical and complex concepts to diverse audiences across organizational lines

• Ability to lead small teams (3-5) for complex work efforts and able to lead cross functional groups. Leads large, complex meetings including multiple levels of management and with ability to navigate complex political situations.

• Ability to coach and train peers and leaders with constructive feedback.

What You Will Do at Cambia:

• Identify process and business improvement opportunities. Analyze and create requirements for improving or replacing systems to meet user needs and achieve improved performance.

• Collaborate with leaders to evaluate and prioritize improvement opportunities, define business requirements, and create business cases.

• Consistently apply business analysis and process improvement methods, templates, and tools to produce high-quality deliverables on-time

• Participate in projects as a team member and make significant contributions to team effectiveness by improving methods, tools, and internal processes

• Apply analytical and quantitative approaches to problem solving by obtaining and using data including using statistics, financial analysis (ROI, NPV), and quantifying current state and future state busies performance.

• Drive process development and improvement efforts with a continuous improvement focus

• Document internal processes to ensure understanding by others with consideration of cross-functional change impacts

• Develop and present status reports to leaders, project teams, and client/customer groups

• Work both independently and in teams. May include mentoring and coaching colleagues with less experience

• Provide valuable insights, coaching, and instruction to team members for performance methods, tools, creating deliverables content including documents and plans

#LI-Hybrid

Pay ranges vary based on the candidate's work location. The expected hiring range depends on skills, experience, education, and training; relevant licensure / certifications; and performance history.

• Oregon, Washington, Utah, and Idaho:The expected hiring range is$101,200 - $136,900, the full salary range is$95,000 - $155,000 and the bonus target is15%.

• North Dakota:The expected hiring range is $101,853.68 - $137,802.04 and the full salary range is$90,435.97 - $149,219.75.

About Cambia

Working at Cambia means being part of a purpose-driven, award-winning culture built on trust and innovation anchored in our 100+ year history. Our caring and supportive colleagues are some of the best and brightest in the industry, innovating together toward sustainable, person-focused health care. Whether we're helping members, lending a hand to a colleague or volunteering in our communities, our compassion, empathy and team spirit always shine through.

Why Join the Cambia Team?

At Cambia, you can:

• Work alongside diverse teams building cutting-edge solutions to transform health care.
• Earn a competitive salary and enjoy generous benefits while doing work that changes lives.
• Grow your career with a company committed to helping you succeed.
• Give back to your community by participating in Cambia-supported outreach programs.
• Connect with colleagues who share similar interests and backgrounds through our employee resource groups.

We believe a career at Cambia is more than just a paycheck - and your compensation should be too. Our compensation package includes competitive base pay as well as a market-leading 401(k) with a significant company match, bonus opportunities and more.

In exchange for helping members live healthy lives, we offer benefits that empower you to do the same. Just a few highlights include:

• Medical, dental and vision coverage for employees and their eligible family members, including mental health benefits.
• Annual employer contribution to a health savings account.
• Generous paid time off varying by role and tenure in addition to 10 company-paid holidays.
• Market-leading retirement plan including a company match on employee 401(k) contributions, with a potential discretionary contribution based on company performance (no vesting period).
• Up to 12 weeks of paid parental time off (eligibility requires 12 months of continuous service with Cambia immediately preceding leave).
• Award-winning wellness programs that reward you for participation.
• Employee Assistance Fund for those in need.
• Commute and parking benefits.

Learn more about our benefits.

We are happy to offer work from home options for most of our roles. To take advantage of this flexible option, we require employees to have a wired internet connection that is not satellite or cellular and internet service with a minimum upload speed of 5Mb and a minimum download speed of 10 Mb.

As part of our security requirements, new hires will need access to a personal mobile device to set up Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) upon joining the company. MFA is an important layer of protection for accessing Cambia systems and is required for all employees.