Manatt Health Overview

Manatt Health integrates consulting and legal expertise to better serve the complex needs of clients across the health care system. Combining legal excellence, firsthand experience in shaping public policy, sophisticated strategy insight and deep analytic capabilities, we provide uniquely valuable professional services to the full range of health industry players. Our diverse team of more than 240 consultants and attorneysfrom Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP, and its consulting subsidiary, Manatt Health Strategies, LLC, is passionate about helping our clients advance their business interests, fulfill their missions and lead health care into thefuture. For more information, visit https://www.manatt.com/health. 

Position Overview 

At Manatt Health, you will bepart of transforming the American health care system. You will work with a team of passionate and driven professionals on the development of business strategy and policy recommendations for our clients. Across our practice, our professionals work on a wide range of substantive issues, including payment and delivery system transformation; health system and academic medical center strategy; Medicaid policy, redesign and innovation; Medicare policy and strategy; digital health strategy; and life sciences market access, coverage and reimbursement strategies, among others. In this role, you will work on a broad range of substantive issues related to whole-person care across state, provider, payer and private sector clients including: payment and delivery system transformation, effective ways of addressing medical and social needs, integration of Medicaid and other payers with other sectors such as education, justice-involved, and public health to coordinate efforts and  improve outcomes, and Medicaid/Medicare/Marketplace policy and business strategy.  

Responsibilities 

• Provide significant contributions to project work streams from start through execution, including developing project work plans, managing milestones and due dates, effectively communicating project status with clients and internal teams, anticipating and addressing client needs, identifying and addressing issues, and managing deliverables. 
• Leverage subject matter expertise to provide qualitative and quantitative analyses that address complex strategy, business, and policy questions and issues as well as market/industry developments. 
• Develop and deliver organized and substantively and visually compelling presentations, with the ability to synthesize complex information for a variety of settings and audiences, including at the executive level. 
• Oversee and mentor junior consultants, ensuring timely delivery of accurate results, providing constructive feedback, and proactively identifying opportunities for growth and development. 

Qualifications 

• Master’s degree or equivalent experience inpublic health, public administration, public policy, health administration, health care management, health care economics, or a related field. 
• Minimum of five years of substantive healthcare experience.  
• Two or more years of Professional Services Consulting experience.
• Experience in one or more of the following areas is highly desired:  
• Medicaid policy and strategy, including conceptualization and design of large-scale Medicaid payment, delivery and managed care systems.  
• Behavioral Health strategy and implementation of programs, with an emphasis on state or federal level experience 
• Healthcare data analytics, including using SAS or other statistical applications to analyze health care data (e.g., claims/encounters, financial data, clinical data) to inform policy, program, or business strategies and decisions.
• Direct experience working inclinical care delivery, for behavioral health providers, for managed careplans, for digital technology companies focused on behavioral health, or for other health care organizations in a capacity that allowed you to support orotherwise participate in strategic decision-making.  
• Ability to maintain strong working relationships with clients and develop creative solutions to meet their needs.  
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills tailored to a variety of audiences, as well as confidence in presenting to groups. 
• Professional expertise with Word, PowerPoint and Excel. 
• Strong analytical and research skills, with the ability to identify and analyze health care data to address strategy and policy questions. 

Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion

Fostering diversity, equity and inclusion is one ofManatt’s core values and is fundamental to our organization’s continued progression. We believe a diverse workforce that reflects the communities inwhich we live, work and serve enriches Manatt’s culture and enhances ourability to understand our clients’ needs and develop better, more impactful solutions. In collaboration with Firm leadership, our Diversity and Inclusion department drives the Firm’s efforts, engaging our legal, consulting, business, and administrative professionals to create and sustain a diverse, equitable and inclusive workplace.

Join Us to Help Make an Impact 

If you would like to be on the cutting edge of the issues facing the health care sector, we strongly encourage you to apply. You must apply through our online application portal. As part of your application, you will be required to upload a resume and cover letter.  

Compensation is based on years of relevantexperience and advanced degrees $145,000 - $185,000. 

EEO/AAEMPLOYER/Veterans/Disabled

Manatt is anequal opportunity employer, dedicated to a policy of non-discrimination inemployment on any basis including race, color, physical or mental disability,religion, creed, national origin, citizenship status, ancestry, sex or gender(including gender identity, gender expression, status as a transgender ortranssexual individual, pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions),age (over 40), genetic information, past, current, or prospective service inthe uniformed services, sexual orientation, political activity or affiliation,genetic or and any other protected classes or characteristic protected underapplicable federal, state, or local law. Consistent with the AmericanDisabilities Act, applicants may request accommodations needed to participatein the application process.