Senior Director, Strategic Consulting Operations

Company Description

Press Ganey is the leading experience measurement, data analytics, and insights provider for complex industries—a status we earned over decades of deep partnership with clients to help them understand and meet the needs of their key stakeholders. Our earliest roots are in U.S. healthcare –perhaps the most complex of all industries. Today we serve clients around the globe in every industry to help them improve the Human Experiences at the heart of their business. We serve our clients through an unparalleled offering that combines technology, data, and expertise to enable them to pinpoint and prioritize opportunities, accelerate improvement efforts and build lifetime loyalty among their customers and employees.

Like all great companies, our success is a function of our people and our culture. Our employees have world-class talent, a collaborative work ethic, and a passion for the work that have earned us trusted advisor status among the world’s most recognized brands. As a member of the team, you will help us create value for our clients, you will make us better through your contribution to the work and your voice in the process. Ours is a path of learning and continuous improvement; team efforts chart the course for corporate success.

Our Mission:

We empower organizations to deliver the best experiences. With industry expertise and technology, we turn data into insights that drive innovation and action. 

Our Values:

To put Human Experience at the heart of organizations so every person can be seen and understood. 

• Energize the customer relationship: Our clients are our partners. We make their goals our own, working side by side to turn challenges into solutions. 

• Success starts with me: Personal ownership fuels collective success. We each play our part and empower our teammates to do the same. 

• Commit to learning: Every win is a springboard. Every hurdle is a lesson. We use each experience as an opportunity to grow. 

• Dare to innovate: We challenge the status quo with creativity and innovation as our true north. 

• Better together: We check our egos at the door. We work together, so we win together. 

Press Ganey's Strategic Consulting team partners with healthcare clients to overcome their biggest challenges. To listen smarter, act faster, and give their teams the tools and skills they need to improve Human Experience, and stay ahead of what’s next.

We are seeking a seasoned, strategic senior level leader to own and evolve our proposal development, consulting project budgeting/oversight, and business process governance. This Senior Director will serve as the central authority for operational tooling, process automation, and delivery performance visibility, while partnering closely with Consulting & Advisory teams. This role is critical to accelerating our growth by establishing operational excellence, improving cross functional consistency, and maximizing the effectiveness of staff.

Duties and Responsibilities

Project Budgeting, Proposals & Financial Leadership

• Develop and maintain SOPs for business operations and project financial governance.
• Support creation of, review, approve, and refine proposals, project budgets, pricing structures, and financial models for consulting services.
• Create scalable frameworks and templates that enable operational staff to work more efficiently and with greater autonomy.

Business Process Ownership & Automation

• Own core operational processes across the business, identifying opportunities for standardization, automation, and efficiency improvements.
• Enhance user experience for critical tools, including Kantata (professional services automation platform) and Salesforce to enable visibility and accountability for project and service line performance, and enhance forecasting, capacity planning, and financial tracking.

• Partner to build and optimize capacity/forecasting, project set‑up, deliverable tracking—while ensuring alignment with broader organizational standards.

Leadership & Team Development

• Partner with senior leadership to design and implement scalable operational strategies that support continued growth (e.g., new consultant onboarding; practice area training/cross-training).
• Mentor and develop operational staff, ensuring they have clear frameworks to deliver high‑quality work.
• Act as a senior advisor on operational maturity, identifying long‑term improvements in project governance, forecasting, and financial rigor.

Location: The Senior Director role can be fully remote within the United States or, for team members located near one of our hub offices in Chicago, South Bend, or Boston, work onsite three days a week (Tuesday–Thursday) and work from home the remaining days.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in consulting/business operations, project finance, PMO leadership, or a similar function (combination of consulting plus professional/managed services/SaaS preferred).
• Deep expertise in project management, budgeting, forecasting, and financial model development.
• Experience drafting and approving proposals, ensuring all assigned proposals are reviewed prior to client delivery.
• Healthcare industry experience highly preferred.
• Strong proficiency with professional services automation tools; experience with Kantata is highly preferred.
• Demonstrated ability to build processes, automate workflows, and drive operational change across cross‑functional teams.
• Proven success supervising or mentoring team members and scaling processes in a growth environment.
• Excellent analytical, strategic thinking, communication, and stakeholder management skills.

Education

Bachelor’s degree in business or related field; Master’s preferred

Travel up to 10%

Don’t meet every single requirement? Studies have shown that women and people of color are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single qualification. At Press Ganey we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace, so if you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyways. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.

Additional Information for US based jobs:

Press Ganey Associates LLC is an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer and well committed to a diverse workforce. We do not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, sex, age, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran status, and basis of disability or any other federal, state, or local protected class. 

Pay Transparency Non-Discrimination Notice – Press Ganey will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor's legal duty to furnish information. 

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