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Accenture Health Consulting — Summer Consultant (Summer 2026)

This application is for Accenture Health Summer Consultants in Summer 2026 only. If you are not part of the Summer Consultant Program during this time period, please visit www.careers.accenture.com to explore open opportunities.

About the Role

Change is good. Transformation is better. Bring your big ideas and ability to creatively solve client business issues to Accenture. As a Management Consultant in Accenture’s Health practice, you’ll combine industry knowledge with functional capabilities to deliver business outcomes at speed while helping clients manage risk.

With Accenture’s end-to-end management consulting offering, you’ll deliver transformational projects and solutions that solve important client issues at the intersection of business and technology.

Your Role as a Healthcare Management Consultant

There is never a typical day at Accenture, but as a new consultant, you’ll test out new ideas with clients in your own unique way. You might spend your day:

• Designing new business processes for payer and provider clients based on customer requirements, facilitating review sessions, and aligning stakeholders on new approaches
• Implementing programs that prepare the organization for implementation of new business processes
• Translating clients’ strategic direction and business objectives into holistic change management, organizational, and talent-related strategies
• Leveraging Accenture’s healthcare methods, tools, and assets to design solutions for complex organizational challenges
• Identifying organizational impacts related to changes in processes, technology, or other project changes and developing the change management plan
• Driving process performance improvement by diagnosing the problem, planning, and leading the transformation
• Combining structural and execution skills that enable clients to achieve immediate business value; if necessary, executing these value propositions as a service either over the long term or to hand back to the client
• Leveraging healthcare and public health expertise and industry knowledge to advise and implement industry-leading practices that help payer and provider clients become market-leading enterprises

Your Experience

Accenture Healthcare Management Consultants are forward-thinking, well-rounded people with a record of outstanding academic performance and high learning agility. We’re looking for individuals who can work in a flexible and entrepreneurial way.

Basic Qualifications

• Participated in the 2026 Accenture Health Summer Consultant Program
• Advanced degrees concentrating in Health Administration (e.g., MHA, MHSA, MPH, or similar healthcare-focused advanced degree)
• Anticipated graduation date (at the time of application) no later than December 2027

Set Yourself Apart

Preferred Qualifications

• 1–3 years of industry or relevant work experience prior to pursuing your graduate degree
• Industry, functional and/or strategic experience, including financial and data modeling skills
• Experience using data and process analyses to create organizational value
• Project management proficiency (e.g., ability to utilize Microsoft PowerPoint, Excel, and other apps to create rigor around team governance and structure)
• Superior academic achievement and proven leadership qualities
• Strong problem-solving, structuring, and analytical skills
• Excellent communication (written and oral) and interpersonal skills
• Eagerness to contribute to a team-oriented environment
• Flexibility to accommodate client travel requirements, when applicable