Product Lead, Business Intelligence Solutions

The Advisory Board Company

 

The Advisory Board Company (NASDAQ: ABCO), a professional and technology services firm serving 2,500 of the country?s preeminent hospitals and healthcare systems, is rapidly expanding its portfolio of technology solutions to provide hospitals with clearer insight into their financial, operational and clinical businesses. Through Advisory Board Compass Solutions, we aim to empower hospitals to achieve business performance goals through faster, data-driven decision-making.

 

Product Lead, Business Intelligence Solutions

 

In response to hospitals? growing need to aggregate disparate data into meaningful business intelligence, The Advisory Board is rapidly expanding its new portfolio of technology solutions. The goal of these solutions is to elevate a member (client) institution's ability to recognize obstacles, make faster decisions and ultimately improve performance.

 

As a critical member of the start-up team, the Product Lead will also help define operational processes for a rapidly growing business line within the firm. The Product Lead will play a role in ensuring that clients are successfully ?on-boarded? and can realize immediate value. Using a variety of technologies, including a custom web-based business intelligence toolset, Product Leads will integrate and transform hospital data into easy-to-use dashboards and reports that, in turn, help illustrate performance improvement opportunities.

 

Major responsibilities include:

 Defining client objectives in partnership with Advisory Board and hospital-based staff for a group of assigned clientsDesigning and leading custom implementation strategy based on nature and accessibility of client data Working with client staff and a third-party partner to extract available data; devising creative solutions to accommodate partial data setsTroubleshooting technical and non-technical challenges Analyzing client data to identify immediate improvement opportunities Developing presentation and report deliverables for a group of assigned clientsProviding ongoing technical and business support, including further customizations to the toolset itself

 

While most of the Product Lead?s work is completed at the Advisory Board?s office, there is the potential to travel to client sites to participate in on-site training sessions or key client meetings (up to 20% of total time).

 

 Candidate selection is based on a range of attributes: Project management experience (both remote and on-site)Analytical reasoning and aptitude with quantitative analysis (MS Access and Excel experience)Familiarity with IT systems, database design, and data structures (SQL Server)Creativity and innovative thinkingCommunication and presentation skillsRelationship-building skillsAttention to detailWillingness to travel up to 20%.Two to seven years of professional experience preferred.

 

This position is based in Washington, D.C.



 

To Apply

 

Qualified candidates should send their resume on-line via our on-line resume tool. Please apply for one position- you will be considered for every position for which you are qualified. Please indicate the advertisement to which you are responding. To access our on-line resume tool please use the following link:

www.advisoryboardcompany.com/public/careers/opportunities_frameset.html

For further information, please visit us at www.advisory.com

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