Associate Consultant - Facilities and Construction

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Summary:

In this role, you will work with Vizient teams and client stakeholders across the country in identifying initiatives for cost-savings, revenue enhancement and operational improvements. You will integrate the activities of architects, engineers, third party equipment planners and consultants involved in facilities maintenance and construction projects to create a positive financial outcome for our clients. You will conduct analyses, present your recommendations internally and externally and provide project management and data analytical support for our consulting teams.

Responsibilities:

• Use Power BI (PBI), Tableau, Excel, Access, SQL and other tools to develop internal and external facing dashboards, reports, and other analytics.

• Perform maintenance and development of PBI dashboards. Perform data quality audits and make necessary changes and recommendations to data and/or process.

• Manage collection of internal feedback and recommend improvements to data analytics.

• Review architectural specifications and prepare supplier alignments for use in validating and tracking client and Vizient contract utilization for direct and 3rd party spend for facility operations and construction initiatives.

• Assist in the development and maintenance of project work plans; identify, track, and validate savings and revenue achieved through program engagement.

• Collect, utilize, analyze, interpret, and present disparate and often fragmented data to drive an action for client performance improvement.

• Provide support to consultants on member engagements including research, development of presentations, meeting preparation, status report preparation, issue identification and tracking/updating project budgets.

• Manage high-volume workload with changing priorities.

Qualifications:

• Relevant degree preferred.

• No prior work experience required.

• Proficient in Excel and PowerBI preferred.

• Experience with Access and SQL highly preferred.

• Excellent presentation and communication skills are required.

• Ability to plan, organize, and manage time across multiple tasks working individually or as a member of a cross-functional team.

• Willingness to travel.

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

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