Chief of Staff, Consulting Business Unit

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The Organization

We help society's foundational healthcare institutions to achieve their full potential in service to others.

We are our clients' trusted partners in ever-changing times. For nearly 40 years, Kaufman Hall has provided independent, objective insights grounded in sound data and analysis to help clients fulfill their missions, achieve their goals, and tackle their toughest problems.

Kaufman Hall provides world-class management consulting in Strategy & Business Transformation, Financial Planning & Data Analytics, Treasury & Capital Markets, Mergers & Acquisitions, Revenue & Operations Improvement, and Clinical Solutions.

At Kaufman Hall, we believe that sustained success is never an accident. It is the result of sound decision making, based on data-driven analysis and disciplined thinking, and guided by the fundamental principles of corporate finance.

The Position

Kaufman, Hall & Associates, LLC, is seeking a Chief of Staff (CoS) to the Consulting Business Unit President. This is a pivotal leadership role responsible for driving strategic alignment, organizational effectiveness, and internal coordination within the Business Unit (BU) and across the Vizient enterprise. Acting as a trusted advisor and operational partner to the President, this individual will lead the execution of cross-functional Consulting BU initiatives, ensure enterprise connectivity, and streamline leadership engagement across the BU Leadership Team and the broader organization.

This is an internal-facing, highly collaborative role. The Chief of Staff is not a deputy or proxy for the president, but rather a neutral, objective orchestrator who enables better decision-making, alleviates bottlenecks, and ensures the President's vision is translated into action.

Key Responsibilities

Strategic and Operational Leadership

• Partner with the Business Unit President to operationalize the BU's strategy and aligning efforts with Vizient's overall enterprise strategy.
• Interpret and cascade the President's vision, ensuring consistent communication and linkage to ongoing BU and enterprise initiatives.
• Lead and manage high-priority strategic projects on behalf of the President, ensuring alignment, clarity of scope, and execution against defined outcomes.
• Work with the Practices and Practice Leaders to drive accountability, track progress, and deliver results across all major BU initiatives.

Executive Coordination and Facilitation

• Act as a central point of coordination across the President's BU leadership team and with the other Vizient BU Chiefs of Staff.
• Serve as a liaison to the Transformation Office and Content teams, ensuring seamless collaboration and communication.
• Coordinate with functional leaders (e.g., Practice Leads, BU Leaders) to synthesize recommendations and present clear options for the President to make a final decision.
• Support preparation and delivery of internal executive engagements including town halls, MD/SVP meetings, and onsite leadership events.

Enterprise and Stakeholder Engagement

• Serve as the internal connector across the enterprise, facilitating alignment between the BU and Vizient's broader organizational goals.
• Manage key relationships across a matrixed environment, driving clarity and cohesion among diverse stakeholders.
• Work in partnership with other Chiefs of Staff to maintain awareness, prevent duplication of effort, and promote shared success.

External/Client Content Development

• Collaborate with appropriate consultants and internal content experts to develop strategic materials for the President, including presentations, talking points, and briefing documents.
• Lead coordination of deliverables for executive meetings (e.g., Quarterly Business Reviews, board meetings), ensuring high-quality, timely, and well-aligned output.
• Filter and triage inputs from across the organization, providing thoughtful recommendations and enabling informed, efficient decision-making.

Key Attributes for Success

• Enterprise-Minded: Understands the broader organizational landscape and connects dots across functions and initiatives.
• Facilitator & Orchestrator: Brings the right people together at the right time to solve problems and drive progress.
• Strategic Project Manager: Drives clarity, execution, and accountability across complex workstreams.
• Objective Advisor: Maintains neutrality and offers clear, informed recommendations to leadership.
• Excellent Communicator: Crafts compelling narratives and strategic presentations for senior audiences.
• Decisive & Trusted: Enables timely decision-making without unnecessary escalation or bottlenecking.

Qualifications

The ideal candidate will possess:

• 10+ years of experience in management consulting, strategic operations, or enterprise project leadership roles.
• Proven ability to lead cross-functional initiatives in a complex, matrixed organization.
• Demonstrated executive presence and the ability to influence and partner with senior leaders.
• Exceptional communication, facilitation, and organizational skills.
• Prior experience working in or alongside a transformation office, strategy team, or chief of staff function is strongly preferred.
• Applicants for employment must have work authorization that does not now or in the future require sponsorship of a visa for employment authorization in the United States and with Kaufman Hall (i.e., H1-B visa, F-1 visa (OPT), TN visa or any other non-immigrant status)

Education - Bachelor's degree required; advanced degree (MBA or equivalent) preferred.

Physical Requirements

• Must be able to perform essential duties satisfactorily with reasonable accommodations
• Work is generally done sitting, talking, hearing and typing. Visual acuity to use a keyboard, prepare and analyze data and figures; transcribing, viewing a computer terminal; extensive reading

Work Environment

• Travel Required: Occasional 0-10%
• The role is based in Chicago
• Work is regularly performed in a combination of in office and a home office setting and routinely uses standard office equipment
• It may require the maintenance of a home office and proximity to an airport for work-related travel

Kaufman Hall is committed to providing equal opportunity for all employees and applicants. We recruit, hire, train, promote, pay, and administer all employment actions without regard to actual and also perceived or assumed protected group status as defined by law of an individual or that individual's associates or relatives. Our policies and the law prohibit employment discrimination against any employee or applicant on the basis of any legally protected status.

The current base salary range for this role is $300,000 - $375,000.

Estimated Hiring Range:

This position is also incentive eligible.

Vizient has a comprehensive benefits plan! Please view our benefits here:

http://www.vizientinc.com/about-us/careers

Equal Opportunity Employer: Females/Minorities/Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities

The Company is committed to equal employment opportunity to all employees and applicants without regard to race, religion, color, gender identity, ethnicity, age, national origin, sexual orientation, disability status, veteran status or any other category protected by applicable law.