Role Summary
Advise clients on value-based care strategy, transformation, and execution across public sector health, provider, and payer-provider environments. The successful candidate will combine deep domain expertise with strong consulting judgment and will be expected to manage teams, advise senior clients, and deliver complex engagements in value-based care and healthcare transformation. This individual will build trusted client relationships and help clients turn value-based care strategy into operating models, implementation plans, and measurable results.
Job Description
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Strategy & Consulting: We work with C-suite executives, leaders and boards of the world’s leading organizations, helping them reinvent every part of their enterprise to drive greater growth, enhance competitiveness, implement operational improvements, reduce cost, deliver sustainable 360° stakeholder value, and set a new performance frontier for themselves and the industry in which they operate. Our deep industry and functional expertise is supported by proprietary assets and solutions that help organizations transform faster and become more resilient. Underpinned by technology, data, analytics, AI, change management, talent and sustainability capabilities, our Strategy & Consulting services help architect and accelerate all aspects of an organization’s total enterprise reinvention.
As a Value-Based Care Principal Director, your primary responsibilities may include:
- Advise clients on value-based care strategy, including incentives, attribution, performance measurement, network strategy, and care model change.
- Guide clients through key decisions needed to move from VBC strategy to execution, including governance, operating model design, implementation planning, and performance management.
- Develop transformation roadmaps, implementation plans, and executive recommendations to support VBC adoption and scale.
- Advise state agencies, providers, and health plans on Medicaid-focused and state-specific value-based models, including AHEAD-aligned approaches.
- Manage complex engagements from planning through delivery, including team leadership, quality management, stakeholder alignment, and issue resolution.
- Work across policy, care management, claims, interoperability, digital, analytics, and provider operations teams to support integrated solutions.
- Build trusted client relationships, coach junior team members, and contribute to account growth and repeatable VBC methods.
- Travel: As required, up to 80%
Why should I join the Accenture Health team? - Innovate every day. Be at the forefront of designing and delivering health technology solutions that push boundaries and create new opportunities for our clients.
- Lead with the industry’s best. Join an industry-recognized healthcare leader with more than 20,000 global healthcare professionals collaborating to drive enterprise-wide transformational projects on a global scale. Accenture has worked with more than 200 clients to deliver healthcare transformation to meet the diverse needs of patients and members.
- Learn and grow continuously. Harness unmatched training and professional development to help you build and advance your health, consultative and delivery skills. With learning resources, interactive classroom courses, real-life client simulations and ongoing mentoring available when you need it, you’ll expand your thinking beyond the core Workday implementation.
Qualification
Here’s what you need: - Minimum of 10 years of healthcare consulting or industry experience with deep expertise in U.S. payer and/or provider environments, including value‑based care model design, implementation, performance management, population health and risk‑based reimbursement.
- Bachelor's degree
Bonus Points If You Have
- Proven leadership in value‑based care transformation, including design and execution of payment models, care management, provider performance enablement, quality (e.g., STARs/HEDIS), and total cost of care initiatives.
- Deep familiarity with Medicaid-driven VBC models, provider incentives, attribution, network strategy, and quality or cost performance frameworks.
- Ability to translate VBC strategy into practical operating models, governance structures, and execution plans.
- Strong understanding of AHEAD readiness or similar state-led value-based initiatives.
- Trusted executive advisor with strong presence and experience engaging C‑suite and senior clinical/operational leaders; able to translate complex clinical, financial, and data topics into actionable business outcomes.
- Demonstrated consulting delivery and commercial acumen, including experience leading large, multi-stakeholder healthcare transformation programs involving providers, health plans, state agencies, or public sector health clients with contribution to sales, origination, and account growth.
- Strong analytical and technology fluency, with experience leveraging data, analytics, and digital platforms (e.g., care management, population health, AI-enabled tools) to drive measurable outcomes under value‑based arrangements.
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We anticipate this job posting will be posted until 04/14/2026
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Accenture offers a market competitive suite of benefits including medical, dental, vision, life, and long-term disability coverage, a 401(k) plan, bonus opportunities, paid holidays, and paid time off. See more information on our benefits here:
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