Manatt Health Overview   

Manatt Health integrates legal and consulting expertise to better serve the complex needs of clients across the healthcare system. Combining legal excellence, first-hand 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 270 attorneys and consultants from 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 healthcare into the future. For more information, visit https://www.manatt.com/Health.    

Position Overview: 

At Manatt Health, 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 broad 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; the behavioral health care delivery system; digital health strategy; health care investment due diligence; life sciences market access, coverage, and reimbursement strategies.   This role will largely support the investment community via due diligence assignments analyzing the policy and market factors impacting a given sub-sector. 

Responsibilities:

•  Project management of specific due diligence assignment project tasks or work streams, including tracking team progress and outstanding issues, agendas and follow-up items, and managing project team documents.

•  Lead primary qualitative research on health care business and policy issues that may impact the risks or opportunities in a given healthcare sub-sector.

•  Monitor federal and state health policy developments, health care provider markets, and other emerging healthcare trends. 

•  Lead quantitative analyses, including cleaning, organizing, and analyzing data. Summarize information using descriptive statistics, tables, and figures.

•  Contribute to client presentation development, design, and delivery.

Qualifications:

•  Master’s degree in business administration, public health, public administration, public policy, health administration, economics, health care management, or another relevant area from an accredited graduate program.  

•  Two years or more of relevant work experience in the health care industry is highly preferred.

•  Two years or more of relevant work experience in professional services consulting is highly preferred. 

•  Relevant internships and/or lived experience, with a demonstrated interest in and enthusiasm for business strategy and marketplace issues, health equity, the investment lifecycle, and other health care trends is a plus. 

•  Outstanding problem-solving, organizational, communication, analytical, and written and verbal communication skills in a variety of settings and media. 

•  Ability to work independently, be part of a team, and collaborate with others, as well as eagerness and curiosity to learn new topic areas quickly. 

•  Strong computer skills, including professional-level proficiency with Word, PowerPoint, and Excel.   

Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion  

Fostering diversity, equity, and inclusion is a Manatt core value and fundamental to our organizational identity. We believe that a diverse workforce that reflects the communities in which we live, work, and serve enriches Manatt’s culture and enhances our ability to understand our client’s needs and develop better, more impactful solutions. Manatt’s Diversity and Inclusion Committee drives the firm’s efforts, working with firm leadership, and engaging our legal, consulting, and business professionals, to create and sustain a diverse, equitable, and inclusive workplace. For more information, visit https://www.manatt.com/diversity.      

Join Us to Help Make an Impact  

If you would like to be on the cutting edge of the issues and opportunities facing the healthcare sector, we strongly encourage you to apply. You must apply through our online application portal (apply here). As part of your application, upload a cover letter, unofficial graduate school transcript, and a two-to-three-page writing sample. The writing sample can be from your academic, work, or individual experience, where you are the sole or primary author (examples include memo, issue brief, short research paper, market/competitive analysis, personal statement, and PowerPoint).  

Manatt is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer. Minorities, women, veterans, and individuals with disabilities are encouraged to apply. 

Compensation is based on years of relevant experience and advanced degrees $130,000 - $165,000.  

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips does not accept speculative CVs from recruitment agencies, headhunters or vendors who are not part of our preferred vendor list. If an unsolicited resume is sent to an employee of Manatt, outside of a blind submission directed to our StrategicGrowth@manatt.com mailbox, Manatt will not be bound by that search firm’s terms or otherwise be obligated to pay any compensation in connection with the submitted candidate.