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Health Care Research Manager – Deloitte Center for Health Solutions

Deloitte • Full-time • Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States • 3d ago

Health Care Research Manager – Deloitte Center for Health Solutions

Strategy, Growth, and Transformation | Strategic Market Insights and Thought Leadership

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Position Summary

Position Summary

Are you passionate about shaping the future of life sciences and health care?

Deloitte’s Center for Health Solutions (DCHS) is seeking an established professional who accelerates the Center’s ability to sense sector and industry trends, develop business relevant research, and activate market-shaping insights—ensuring the right content reaches the right business leader at the right time to drive client and market conversations. The focus will be on market and business issues that impact the health care sector, particularly health care provider organizations and health care payers.

The individual in this role will have accountability for turning research strategy into scalable, high-impact insights that influence executive decision-making, inform client strategy, and accelerate Deloitte’s growth in the business. The role combines thought leadership excellence, operational rigor, and commercial acumen to ensure the Center’s work is relevant, differentiated, and impactful. This role is designed for a leader who can bridge research and business, inspire teams, and influence senior stakeholders across Deloitte and the broader life sciences and health care ecosystem.

As a Research Manager at Deloitte, you will:

Shape market-moving insights that guide and inspire curiosity among life science executives
Engage with top decision makers in industry and the market
Lead, manage and mentor the next generation of research leaders
Identify and lead the implementation of innovation, collaboration, and activities that create value for our business and help our practitioners scale insight driven client conversations.

This is a rare opportunity to lead with purpose, collaborating with incredible professionals across our firm, thinking boldly, growing the impact of our business, and delivering insights that inspire action and improve health for millions across our nation and the world.

Recruiting for this role ends on 10/31/2026.

About Deloitte’s Center for Health Solutions

Deloitte Center for Health Solutions (DCHS) is Deloitte’s trusted source for actionable insights on the most pressing issues in life sciences and health care. Our mission is to turn evidence into influence—delivering research that challenges conventional wisdom, sparks dialogue and drives transformation across the health ecosystem.

The Center brings together researchers, policy experts, and strategists to generate differentiated, data-driven thought leadership. As part of Deloitte’s Research & Insights organization within the Growth and Purpose function, DCHS works at the intersection of commercial, public sector, academic, and business to help our clients — and the world — make smarter, more sustainable decisions about health.

What You will Do: As a Research Manager of the Center for Health Solutions, you will:

Lead Market-Making Research

Engage with senior Deloitte leaders from across the firm to define and lead the research agenda for the Health Care Sector (prioritizing issues facing health care delivery organizations and health care payers ) ensuring alignment with Deloitte’s strategic priorities and emerging industry challenges. Relevant topics include, but are not limited to, strategic choices, innovation, artificial intelligence, finance, workforce, supply chain, regulatory issues, cyber risk, governance, transformation, financing, operations, M&A, digital health, models of care, and the future of the health care sector. At times, the issues will integrate and interface with the life sciences sector, so we need to also consider times when the business benefits from industry level insight development.
Design and oversee large-scale, multi-method research studies (e.g., surveys, public data analysis, proprietary data analysis, econometric modeling, AI-enabled analytics, structured interviews, among others).
Advance innovative methodologies, integrating innovative tools, rigor, and diverse data sources to generate unique insights. Develop and promote new research methodologies via generative AI tools to increase quality, variety, and quantity.
Cultivate collaborations with business leaders, academic institutions, industry partners, and global thought leaders to expand the Center’s research reach and impact.
Maintain Deloitte’s reputation for intellectual integrity, quality, and independence.

Shape Thought Leadership

Serve as a visible thought leader within Deloitte and the broader LSHC community.
Publish research, deliver client, account team and market presentations and engage with media and other key stakeholders to elevate Deloitte’s brand.
Translate complex findings into clear, compelling narratives that resonate with executive audiences and drive market impact.
Position research as a catalyst for client conversations, policy dialogue, and strategic decision-making.
Identify and communicate key industry trends and their implications to our clients and our business.

Inspire Teams & Drive Excellence

Lead and mentor a team of researchers, analysts, and strategists — cultivating excellence, innovation, and professional growth.
Build an environment that values intellectual rigor, collaboration, curiosity, and inclusion oriented in using data, AI, and technology.
Serve as a mentor and role model, helping emerging researchers grow into visible thought leaders.
Manage project delivery and quality, ensuring research meets Deloitte’s high standards and deadlines.

Set clear expectations, provide feedback, and model leadership behaviors aligned with Deloitte’s purpose and values.
Own sector workforce planning, hiring, onboarding, and performance management to scale reliable development, delivery, operations, and execution.
Help implement the principles of our business unit thought leadership transformation

Engage with Clients & the Market

Partner with Deloitte industry and sector leaders to translate insights into solutions that can solve real-world client problems.
Engage with C-suite executives, policymakers, and global leaders to present findings, test hypotheses, and influence decisions.
Identify emerging issues and white-space opportunities to guide new research and strengthen Deloitte’s position in key markets.
Support clients and account teams by identifying and supporting sector and related account needs as appropriate.

Drive Activation, Distribution, and Commercial Enablement

Partner with Industry, Sector, and Account leaders to position research as a growth catalyst, enabling differentiated client value propositions.
Help support and enhance an always-on distribution system (segmented audiences, executive moments that matter, enablement packaging, and digital/multimedia assets) so business leaders receive relevant and timely insights when they can act.
Serve as an internal ambassador for the distribution model – guiding integrated publishing, narrative consistency, and optimization practices.
Collaborate with Brand, Marketing, Communications, and PR teams to amplify reach, relevance, and impact.
Deliver on impact metrics (reach, engagement, influence on pipeline, client adoption) to demonstrate return on insight investment.

Modernize research workflows using emerging approaches (including analytics, automation, and responsible artificial intelligence (AI) where appropriate).
Improve speed-to-insight through rapid-cycle research and publishing models—without sacrificing quality or independence.

Basic Qualifications

Master’s degree required in health administration, public health, economics, epidemiology, health policy, business, or related field.
Minimum of 8 years of professional experience with increasing leadership responsibility in research, thought leadership, or strategy roles.
Expertise in the LSHC industry, with proven ability to connect research to business and policy real world implications.

Strong analytical, research, and project management skills; expertise in large, complex data sets, industry data, public data and use of statistical methods (R, Python, Stata).
Experience using LLMs and similar AI tools to facilitate deeper research and develop new analytic approaches.
Demonstrated excellence in writing and communicating for executive audiences.
Ability to synthesize complex information into actionable insights and a compelling narrative
Proven record of leading, developing and inspiring high-performing teams.
Strong stakeholder management and ability to build consensus in complex, matrixed environments
Experience in the professional services environment and comfort in operating in a matrixed organization
Must be legally authorized to work in the United States without the need for employer sponsorship now or in the future.
Ability to travel 0-10%, on average, based on the work you do and the clients and industries/sectors you serve.

Preferred Qualifications

Doctorate in business administration, AI, public health, medicine, economics, sciences, health policy, sociology, or related field
Record of creativity, resilience, and adaptability in ambiguous situations.
Strong stakeholder management and ability to build consensus in complex, matrixed environments.
Record of high performance; consultative and strategic mindset; ability to navigate ambiguous circumstances and complex structures.
Recognized presence in the LSHC market — publications, media appearances, conference presentations, or industry contributions that demonstrate thought leadership.

The wage range for this role takes into account the wide range of factors that are considered in making compensation decisions including but not limited to skill sets; experience and training; licensure and certifications; and other business and organizational needs. The disclosed range estimate has not been adjusted for the applicable geographic differential associated with the location at which the position may be filled. At Deloitte, it is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the top of the range for their role and compensation decisions are dependent on the facts and circumstances of each case. A reasonable estimate of the current range is $97,600 to $200,600.

You may also be eligible to participate in a discretionary annual incentive program, subject to the rules governing the program, whereby an award, if any, depends on various factors, including, without limitation, individual and organizational performance.

Why Deloitte:

You will operate at the intersection of purpose, innovation, and market impact—helping leaders make better decisions that improve health outcomes while building Deloitte’s voice and growth in one of the world’s most consequential industries. Shape insights that influence markets, executive decisions, policy, and investment.

Collaborate directly with business leaders to turn research into growth.
Build and mentor the next generation of industry thought leaders.
Operate at the center of purpose, innovation, and impact in one of the world’s most consequential industries.

Come lead and team with talented colleagues where ideas meet impact.

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