Showing posts with label MBA. Show all posts
Showing posts with label MBA. Show all posts

Saturday, January 21, 2012

alt-lib Suggests: Client Services Manager - Healthcare Job - Atlanta GA, 30301- Thomson Reuters

Some key points for a Librarian, in this job title:
  • Comprehends and explains to clients the value of Thomson products and services. Communicates verbally in a confident manner
  • Ability to manage multiple clients.
  • Superior understanding of both new business development and consulting methodology.
  • Identify opportunities for, propose, and sell value-add projects
  • Manage and monitor client satisfaction, and recommend appropriate strategies, tactics and operational initiatives to continuously enhance client satisfaction.
This position is very demanding; but, at it's core there is customer service and management of information/knowledge. - alt-lib

Atlanta Client Services Manager - Healthcare Job - GA, 30301

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Client Services Manager - Healthcare Job

Date: Jan 16, 2012
Location: Atlanta, GA, US

Title: Client Services Manager - Healthcare
ID: PRO00005992

Description

Provide leading-edge healthcare management consulting at the strategic partnership level of our clients' organizations. Enhance Thomson's partnership with and value to each client through increased relationships with their middle and senior management.

RESPONSIBILITIES

- Develop client-specific cost savings and profit-improvement strategies, implement required services, and document return on investment.
- Manage financial and business objectives including contract revenue, value-add revenue, renewals, expenses and margins and accounts receivable targets.
- Provide leadership on consulting engagements and engage in billable consulting activity, as appropriate and/or required, in partnership with client team members.
- Manage evolving client expectations, needs and priorities, and collaborate with client team members to ensure effective integration with consulting and service delivery capabilities and priorities, including database production processes.
- Manage and monitor client satisfaction, and recommend appropriate strategies, tactics and operational initiatives to continuously enhance client satisfaction.
- Meet regularly in face-to-face meetings with clients.

Examples of responsibilities:

- Lead service planning meetings with clients
- Identify opportunities for, propose, and sell value-add projects
- Coordinate internal and external contract renewal activities
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The Healthcare business of Thomson Reuters provides insights -- information, benchmarks and analysis -- that enable organizations to manage costs, improve performance and enhance the quality of healthcare.

Qualifications

- Graduate level education (e.g., MBA, MPHA) or equivalent education and experience.
- 5+ years of experience in healthcare analysis and/or consulting, with client contact at senior levels and demonstrated business development skills.
- Proven history of ability to capture the attention and respect of key decision makers in the client environment by providing new and useful ways of thinking about managing healthcare costs and quality.
- Current or prior responsibility must have included revenue accountability in the $1,000,000 range.
- Ability to manage multiple clients.
- Superior understanding of both new business development and consulting methodology.
- Willingness to travel.

LEVEL 5 SKILLS

All Level 4 skills plus:

Technical/Professional Skills and Knowledge

- Demonstrates extensive market knowledge, good business judgment, and significant product knowledge.
- Applies sound analytic and client relationship skills.

Communication

- Comprehends and explains to clients the value of Thomson products and services. Communicates verbally in a confident manner.
- Applies strong facilitation skills.
- Writes proposals, presentations, internal and interdepartmental memos.
- Communicates with more senior level staff, internally and externally.

Interpersonal Skills

- Resolves complex conflicts/controversies.
- Is skilled at building trust internally and with customers.
- Employs effective negotiation skills.

Problem Solving

- Identifies complex internal and organizational problems (e.g., balancing workload and staffing resources), develops possible solutions and recommends the most effective solution.
- Anticipates problems and establishes processes to prevent them.
- Develops problem solving strategies to resolve senior client (or multi-client) problems.

Independent Judgment

- Independently completes assignments using instructions that indicate only the results required. Understands impact of decisions on department(s).
- Seeks input on complex or unusual situations. Utilizes independent judgment to effectively and creatively employ available resources/staff and manage priorities.
- Develops and manages department plan and client strategies.

Organization Awareness

- Uses understanding of organization and relationships within the organization to make decisions that impact department or workgroup.
- Thoroughly understands Thomson's business.

Impact/Responsibility

- Has responsibility for achievement and completion of projects and/or operations, including those with a significant impact on a department or function.
- Makes, approves and executes decisions related to budgets and purchases of technology, tools and staffing.
- Has supervisory experience.
- May lead and manage others.
- May manage work of a department or function
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Job: Professional/Consulting Services
Primary Location: US-GA-Atlanta
Organization: Prof Healthcare Cust Sgmnt-ALL
Schedule: Full-time
Education Level: Master's Degree (±18 years)
Job Type: Standard
Shift: Day Job
Travel: Yes, 10% of the time

alt-lib Suggests: Manager, Decision Support Job - Philadelphia PA, 19019- Thomson Reuters

The finance-related skillset required in this position is very specialized; but here's the basic overlap with a Librarian's skills:
- Strong project management experience.
- Ability to think and act strategically
- Strong verbal and written presentation skills (Do you realize you have an extraordinary ability to present information?) - alt-lib
- Strong organizational skills and the ability to manage multiple projects with competing demands for resources.
- Ability to interface effectively with all levels of the organization.
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Philadelphia Manager, Decision Support Job - PA, 19019

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Manager, Decision Support Job

Date: Jan 14, 2012
Location: Philadelphia, PA, US

Title: Manager, Decision Support
ID: ACC00004852

Description

Manager, Decision Support

This Manager level role in Decision Support is to perform analysis and validation of business and financial data reported across the TR IP&Science organization. This role monitors and reports on key performance metrics across the business. The role will help support recommendations to senior financial management on tactical issues as well as providing counsel and support to business units and department operations. The Manager, Decision Support is expected to provide project management expertise to design and implement key business initiatives.

- Validates that business decisions make good business sense and conducts the appropriate level of financial analysis.
- Gathers, prepares and analyzes financial data and metrics and provides recommendations and suggests alternative actions.
- Works closely with Strategy, Business Development, and Business teams to ensure consistency and commonality across the Finance function
- Applies knowledge of external economic, market, and business trends to ensure optimization of financial opportunities and outcomes.
- Challenges strategic concepts and validates the financial business cases for capital, growth, and project investments
- Participates in Business Process Improvement initiatives.
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Qualifications- Four year Bachelors Degree in Finance or Accounting required.
- MBA or MBA in process plus 5-7 years progressive development and experience in applicable business roles required.
- Strong experience in financial analysis, financial modeling, planning, forecasting and management reporting.
- Strong project management experience.
- Ability to think and act strategically.
- Ability to synthesize and present complex data; Expert power user in Excel and PowerPoint
- Strong verbal and written presentation skills.
- Strong organizational skills and the ability to manage multiple projects with competing demands for resources.
- Ability to interface effectively with all levels of the organization.
- Experience using SAP, Business Objects, Cognos systems is a plus.
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Job: Accounting and Finance
Primary Location: US-PA-Philadelphia
Organization: Prof IP & Science Finance
Schedule: Full-time
Education Level: Bachelor's Degree (±16 years)
Job Type: Standard
Shift: Day Job
Travel: Yes, 10% of the time

alt-lib Suggests: Grant Payment Analyst Job -Horsham PA, 19044- Yoh.com

Note: Many job postings that say MBA are applicable. What the recruiters are looking for is someone who has masters level education, in the adminstration  of business (ie, information) processes. -alt-lib

Horsham Grant Payment Analyst Job - PA, 19044

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Grant Payment Analyst Job

Date: Jan 9, 2012
Location: Horsham, PA, USA
Yoh has a contract opportunity for a Contract / Grant Payment Specialist to join our client in Horsham, PA.

Job Responsibilities:

Under the guidance of the manager, the incumbent will undertake the activities of the medical program financial specialist function within the operations group for a specified therapeutic area.

    - The general focus of this Medical Program Financial Specialist group is to provide specialized support and assistance to Physicians and Medical Program Coordinators in the planning, execution and control of all global clinical grant financial administrative functions. - This function includes but is not limited to: budgets (planning, negotiating and administration), outsourcing, procurement and legal review to support clinical study programs. - This position encompasses complexities inherently involved with the efficient facilitation of global clinical grant financial administration as well as influencing the quality of information gathered, evaluated and reported in support of Medical Research Liaisons financial need.

Job Qualifications:

    - Bachelor's degree in appropriate scientific or financial discipline. - Minimum of four years experience and/or equivalent competencies in pharmaceutical industry/clinical research or MBA/Master's degree plus two years experience in the pharmaceutical industry/clinical research. - This must include a working knowledge of the clinical development process with one to two years experience and/or equivalent competencies in financial administration
    ....
    Recruiter: LaTanya Hill Yoh is a professional staffing provider with over 70 years of experience in the short- and long-term staffing services industry; visit our website to learn more about our company. Yoh, a Day & Zimmermann company, is an Equal Opportunity Employer, M/F/D/ J2W: CLINICAL MONJOB J2WMIDATL Ref: 978726