About the job

The Population Health & Wellness Director is a senior-level, client-facing leader responsible for designing, implementing, and optimizing population health, wellness, and preventive care strategies for employer clients. This role partners closely with benefits consultants, carriers, vendors, and client leadership to improve employee health outcomes, enhance engagement, and drive measurable cost containment results.

This position blends strategic consulting, program design, data-driven insights, and vendor management, supporting The MJ Companies Employee Benefits Consulting value proposition as a trusted advisor in employee health and wellbeing.

Key Responsibilities

Population Health Strategy & Program Design

• Develop and lead comprehensive population health and wellbeing strategies aligned with clients’ benefits, workforce demographics, and business objectives
• Design multi-year population health roadmaps addressing preventive care, chronic condition management, mental health, wellbeing, and health equity
• Evaluate and recommend evidence-based wellness, disease management, digital health, and point-solution vendors

Client Consulting & Relationship Management

• Serve as a subject-matter expert for population health and wellness in client strategy meetings, renewals, finalist presentations, and plan design discussions
• Translate health data and population insights into actionable recommendations for HR, Finance, and executive stakeholders
• Partner with benefits consulting teams to integrate population health strategies into total rewards and benefits planning

Data Analytics & Outcomes Measurement

• Analyze population health data including medical and pharmacy claims, biometric results, risk assessments, and engagement metrics
• Define KPIs and success metrics to assess program effectiveness, ROI, and improvements in health outcomes
• Create client-facing dashboards, reports, and executive summaries to communicate results and trends

Vendor & Partner Management

• Manage relationships with wellness, digital health, and population health vendors, including contracting support, performance reviews, and outcomes evaluation
• Stay current on emerging population health trends, regulatory considerations, and best practices in employer-sponsored benefits
• Coordinate vendor implementations and ongoing optimization across diverse client populations

Internal Collaboration & Thought Leadership

• Collaborate with sales, account management, compliance, pharmacy and analytics teams to support prospecting and client retention efforts
• Develop population health content for marketing, thought leadership, and educational presentations
• Mentor, manage, and support the Population Health & Wellness team

Education

• Bachelor’s degree in Public Health, Health Administration, Nursing, Exercise Science, Health Promotion, or a related field required
• Master’s degree (MPH, MBA, MHA, or similar) preferred
• 8+ years of experience in population health, wellness consulting, healthcare analytics, or employee benefits
• Experience working within an employee benefits brokerage, consulting firm, health plan, or wellness vendor environment preferred

Certifications (Preferred)

• Certified Health Education Specialist (CHES)
• Certified Corporate Wellness Specialist (CCWS)
• Registered Nurse (RN) or other clinical credential
• Health & Productivity Management (HPM) certification

Knowledge & Experience

• Deep understanding of employer-sponsored health plans, population health management, and wellness program design
• Strong proficiency in interpreting medical and pharmacy claims data and translating insights into solutions
• Excellent presentation and executive communication skills
• Proven ability to influence without authority and partner with diverse stakeholders
• Project management skills with the ability to manage multiple client initiatives simultaneously

Technical Functions

1. Population Health Data & Analytics- Interpret and analyze medical, pharmacy, and integrated claims data, evaluate trends, identify cost drivers and modifiable risk factors
2. Population Health Program Architecture & Design- Design multi-year population health strategies and architect integrated solutions 
3. Vendor Evaluation, Selection & Performance Management- Conduct vetting of wellness, digital health, and population health vendors, lead vendor RFPs, monitor vendor performance
4. Measurement, ROI & Outcomes Evaluation- Define and measure KPIs and success metrics for population health program
5. Technology & Data Integration- Oversee data integration between claims data sources, wellness platforms, vendors and administration systems, support use of systems and data tools
6. Clinical, Regulatory & Compliance Oversight- Ensure programs align with standards, regulations, and requirements
7. Plan Design & Benefits Alignment- Align population health initiatives with plan design and strategies
8. Client & Consultant Enablement - Equip benefits consultants with technical population health insights

OVERVIEW

We are The MJ Companies—a firm dedicated to inspiring the success, fulfillment, and wellbeing of each person we serve. Our commitment to excellence and collaboration has enabled us to maintain a best-in-class approach to risk management, employee benefits, and total rewards.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS/RESPONSIBILITIES

+ Assist client with claim reporting by establishing best practices, collecting relevant information, analyzing potential coverage, and submitting on their behalf.

+ Provide ongoing consultation and monitoring of open complex claims. Support and guide clients through the carrier claim process. Act as an advocate for the best and most expedient resolution of claims.

+ Analyze policy language to determine all appropriate avenues to seek coverage. Conduct in-depth review of all coverage positions, challenging when appropriate.

+ Conduct formal client onboarding to assist in the development of processes for internal claim administration, facilitate and participate in claim reviews to communicate disposition strategies and financial developments, and provide ongoing proactive solutions to meet clients needs.

TECHNICAL FUNCTIONS

+ Proficient in the use of Microsoft Office Products: Excel, Word, Outlook

+ High level knowledge of property/casualty insurance including coverage forms, legal issues, and claim protocols.

REQUIRED EDUCATION/EXPERIENCE

+ Bachelor’s degree in business or related area; work equivalent

+ Property & Casualty license (or ability to obtain)

+ A minimum of 5-8 years experience in the insurance industry in a Claims or related position

+ Demonstrated skills: sense of urgency, detail-oriented, excellent organizational and time management skills

+Proven ability to work independently with minimal supervision as well as collaborate among the team daily and contribute to MJ’s culture.

+ Excellent verbal and written communication skills; professional presentation

WHAT WE DO

Our Data and Analytics consultants work with clients at all levels of the organization, from the C-suite to the shop floor, helping them to deliver on their most strategic initiatives. We’re known for making realistic, data-driven decisions that deliver value in tangible ways to our clients. Our clients ask for us on projects that require a superior combination of technical and business capabilities, people and management skills, and a collaborative mindset. We excel in understanding complex programs and strategic initiatives and breaking them into actionable pieces.

We are actively looking for professionals in the following areas:

• Data Strategy
• Data Governance
• Data Modernization
• Advanced Analytics
• Data Visualization

The ideal candidate’s experience may include but is not limited to the following:

• Have experience understanding and solving real business problems
• Have experience with presenting business case and strategy to the C-Suite
• Bring industry domain knowledge for custom data and analytics strategies
• Experience in designing and implementing data driven products and services
• Experience in designing and building high performance collaborative business and technology teams that deliver high value data solutions, data products and data analytics

Ideal candidates may call themselves Data Architects, Data Engineers, Data Scientists, Analysts and Data Governance professionals. Experience may include but not limited to the following:  

Data Strategy and Governance

• Intimately familiar with data technologies, data architecture frameworks, cloud platforms and the emerging trends in technological advancements.
• Proven experience in transforming our clients from on-prem data platforms to the cloud.
• Lead data modernization initiatives that include platform, technology and tools implementation and adoption.
• Must have experience in architecting and implementing data architecture, data engineering, reporting and analytical solutions across multiple business functions and domains.
• Conduct data management maturity assessments and identify pain points for including data quality, governance, architecture, analytics, metadata management, master data management.
• Demonstrate a rigorous and analytical problem-solving approach, leading information-gathering sessions and preparing and delivering client presentations and work products/prototypes.
• Identify data governance gaps and assess data governance maturity in a complex data environment. Should also be able to Identify the implications for data governance that arise from the technology, current processes, and skill levels in a complex data environment.

Data Architecture and Engineering

• Extensive experience or knowledge of cloud-based data platform technologies such as AWS, Microsoft Azure or Google Cloud Computing.
• Experience designing and building data platforms that support data lakes, data stores, data ingestion and transformations and API services for consuming data
• Ability to design and build complex data pipelines that either stream data in
• Experience and knowledge of programming and scripting languages, such as but not limited to Python, Node.JS and SQL
• Experience and knowledge of data integration tools and platforms
• Experience and knowledge of relational and dimensional database structures, theories, principles, and practice used in data warehousing and analytics solutions
• Ability to design and build data models using the appropriate technics to meet business objectives
• In depth knowledge of modern data technologies including Snowflake, RedShift, Azure SQL/Synaspe, Databricks or similar technologies.

Advanced Analytics and Data Visualizations

• Extensive experience or knowledge of data visualization technologies such as Tableau, Power BI, Qlik and Spotfire
• Experience with statistical and mathematical modeling, artificial intelligence and machine learning software and methods
• Experience and knowledge of programming and scripting languages such as, but not limited to, SQL, Python and R
• Experience with data modeling, data prep and machine learning tools like Alteryx, RapidMinder, RStudio and Tableau Prep
• Experience and knowledge of relational and dimensional database structures, theories, principles, and practice used in data warehousing and analytics solutions
• Experience deploying enterprise-wide reporting solutions while leveraging data visualization best practices

A career at SEI extends well beyond providing great service and thought leadership to our clients. Everyone takes an active role in building and managing our business, in an environment that runs counter to traditional consulting firms. Our consultants have a “seat at the table” and contribute to growing our business in ways that align to their interests such as growing business development opportunities, conducting interviews to support our hiring process, managing internal initiatives that build our brand or organizing trainings to share what you know with your colleagues. There is no telling what an SEI Consultant will be asked to do on a day-to-day basis – we do what it takes to get the job done.

QUALIFICATIONS

Required-

• Alignment to our core values: Excellence, Participation, Integrity and Collaboration
• Hungry, Humble, Smart
• Demonstrated business and technology acumen
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Understanding and experience solving real business problems
• Proven track record of delivering results
• Experience working with and/or leading a team
• Ability to work across industries, roles, functions & technologies
• Authorization for permanent employment in the United States (this position is not eligible for immigration sponsorship)

Preferred-

• Bachelor’s degree
• 8+ years professional experience
• Experience across our service offerings

WHAT WE DO

Our Security, Risk and Compliance consultants work with clients at all levels of the organization, from the C-suite to the shop floor, helping them to deliver on their most strategic initiatives. We’re known for making realistic, data-driven decisions that deliver value in tangible ways to our clients. Our clients ask for us on projects that require a superior combination of technical and business capabilities, people and management skills, and a collaborative mindset. We excel in understanding complex programs and strategic initiatives and breaking them into actionable pieces.

We are actively looking for professionals in the following areas:

• Compliance
• Information Security
• Risk Management
• Data Privacy

The ideal candidate’s experience may include but is not limited to the following:

• Management or participation in Cybersecurity, Information Security, Risk, Compliance and/or Data Privacy Programs or Projects
  • Sample projects/programs could include but are not limited to:
    • Compliance framework mapping and implementation,
    • Regulatory mapping and implementation
    • Audit, risk or regulatory remediation management,
    • Readiness for new laws and regulations,
    • Risk, Compliance or Information Security risk reporting and monitoring
    • Creation of roadmaps to mature or advance Risk, Compliance or Information Security Strategies/Programs/Controls
    • Design and enablement of cyber controls functions and processes
    • Change management related to regulatory adoption or compliance changes
    • Audit or certification readiness
  • Familiarity or direct experience with GRC/Cybersecurity solutions, tools and technologies
  • Control design or maturation for high-demand technical areas such as ERP, Identity and Access Management, Business Continuity and Resiliency, Cloud
  • Knowledge of and/or application of industry specific regulations, laws, and standards such as the EU-GDPR, CCPA/CPRA, HIPAA, PCI
  • Knowledge of and/or application of compliance and security frameworks and standards such as COSO, NIST, ISO
  • Management of regulatory, internal or external audits, or experience as an auditor
  • Projects or roles requiring coordination across lines of defense working with technical, business, compliance, risk and audit teams to deliver solutions
  • Work or projects with military or federal government agencies in Risk, Compliance or Information Security/Cyber Security sectors
  • Certifications: CIPP, CRCM, CRM, ARM, CISSP, CISM

QUALIFICATIONS

Required-

• Alignment to our core values: Excellence, Participation, Integrity, and Collaboration
• Hungry, Humble, Smart
• Demonstrated business and technology acumen
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Understanding and experience solving real business problems
• Proven track record of delivering results
• Experience working with and/or leading a team
• Ability to work across industries, roles, functions & technologies
• Authorization for permanent employment in the United States (this position is not eligible for immigration sponsorship)

Preferred-

• Bachelor’s degree
• 8+ years professional experience
• Experience across our service offerings

WHAT WE DO

Our Strategy and Operations consultants work with clients at all levels of the organization, from the C-suite to the shop floor, helping them to deliver on their most strategic initiatives. We’re known for making realistic, data-driven decisions that deliver value in tangible ways to our clients. Our clients ask for us on projects that require a superior combination of technical and business capabilities, people and management skills, and a collaborative mindset. We excel in understanding complex programs and strategic initiatives and breaking them into actionable pieces.

We work across a variety of industries and business functions and provide depth and breadth of experience across a set of core capabilities:

• Strategy and Execution – Leverage quantitative and qualitative insights to inform strategic alignment, develop roadmaps, and define prioritization
• Process Improvement - Work with decision-makers to understand organizational goals, process gaps, and make and implement recommendations
• Operational Transformation - Leverage data-based strategies to define organizational goals, identify performance gaps, advise on closing gaps, predict future demand, and lead transformation initiatives
• Organizational Design – Ensure effective alignment of skills and responsibilities, spans and layers, governance, and communication across an organization
• Mergers and Acquisitions – work with organizations to identify, plan, and lead post M&A integration activities.

We close gaps to create unparalleled opportunities for innovation.  We develop and execute strategic blueprints, facilitate, and lead large-scale transformations, and increase operational effectiveness with an approach centered on agility and collaboration.  Our goal is simple: to position our clients as leaders within their sectors.  

The ideal candidate’s experience may include but is not limited to the following:

• Have experience understanding and solving real business problems
• Have experience with presenting business case and strategy to the C-Suite
• Have experience in conducting assessments in different areas that allow organizations a map of where they are and where they may want to go
• Identifying and addressing root causes of operational and strategic issues in organizational and governance structures.
• Led a process improvement initiative, facilitating Current State and Future State documentation, performing a Gap Analysis and creating a plan to achieve desired Future State vision.
• Been a part of standing up a post merger Integration Management Office and worked leading activities related to 2 organizations coming together

A career at SEI extends well beyond providing great service and thought leadership to our clients. Everyone takes an active role in building and managing our business, in an environment that runs counter to traditional consulting firms. Our consultants have a “seat at the table” and contribute to growing our business in ways that align to their interests such as growing business development opportunities, conducting interviews to support our hiring process, managing internal initiatives that build our brand or organizing trainings to share what you know with your colleagues. There is no telling what an SEI Consultant will be asked to do on a day-to-day basis – we do what it takes to get the job done.

QUALIFICATIONS

Required-

• Alignment to our core values: Excellence, Participation, Integrity, and Collaboration
• Hungry, Humble, Smart
• Demonstrated business and technology acumen
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Understanding and experience solving real business problems
• Proven track record of delivering results
• Experience working with and/or leading a team
• Ability to work across industries, roles, functions & technologies
• Authorization for permanent employment in the United States (this position is not eligible for immigration sponsorship)

Preferred-

• Bachelor’s degree
• 8+ years professional experience
• Experience across our service offerings

WHAT WE DO

Our Concept to Delivery consultants work with clients to turn ideas into reality. No matter the size or complexity, our consultants are skilled at helping clients transform concepts into tangible, impactful results. We do this by utilizing innovative approaches to design and deliver engaging, value-focused solutions. Our Concept to Delivery approach demands a people-centric mindset, fail-fast mentality, nimble decision making, steadfast innovation, and engaging cross-functional collaboration.

We work across a variety of industries and business functions and provide depth and breadth of experience across numerous strategic capabilities.

We are actively looking for professionals in the following areas:

• Design Thinking
• Rapid Prototyping
• Product Management
• Solution Delivery
• Change Management

The ideal candidate’s experience will include elements of the following:

• Providing delivery leadership, and executing on large scale, highly complex initiatives by aligning key stakeholders, working across various levels of the organization, and driving business results
• Leveraging design thinking methods to facilitate, articulate, and align on problem definition and solution design among business leads, relevant stakeholders, and oftentimes customers.
• Developing and adding further detail and fidelity to envisioned solutions through prototyping, often working with the same stakeholders, by leveraging an agile approach towards feedback to deliver quickly while meeting product goals.
• Managing the product lifecycle (e.g., vision, roadmap, budget, pricing, development), often by leveraging the collective functions of an enterprise, to deliver solutions that maximize value and minimize time to delivery.
• Enabling organizations and its people to embrace, adopt, and champion new solutions by leveraging effective change management strategies and methodologies

A career at SEI extends well beyond providing great service and thought leadership to our clients. Everyone takes an active role in building and managing our business, in an environment that runs counter to traditional consulting firms. Our consultants have a “seat at the table” and contribute to growing our business in ways that align to their interests such as growing business development opportunities, conducting interviews to support our hiring process, managing internal initiatives that build our brand or organizing trainings to share what you know with your colleagues. There is no telling what an SEI Consultant will be asked to do on a day-to-day basis – we do what it takes to get the job done.

QUALIFICATIONS

Required-

• Alignment to our core values: Excellence, Participation, Integrity, and Collaboration
• Hungry, Humble, Smart
• Demonstrated business and technology acumen
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Understanding and experience solving real business problems
• Proven track record of delivering results
• Experience working with and/or leading a team
• Ability to work across industries, roles, functions & technologies
• Authorization for permanent employment in the United States (this position is not eligible for immigration sponsorship)

Preferred-

• Bachelor’s degree
• 8+ years professional experience
• Experience across our service offerings

WHAT WE DO

Our AI and Technology consultants work with clients at all levels of the organization, from the C-suite to the shop floor, helping them to deliver on their most strategic initiatives. We’re known for making realistic, data-driven decisions that deliver value in tangible ways to our clients. Our clients ask for us on projects that require a superior combination of technical and business capabilities, people and management skills, and a collaborative mindset. We excel in understanding complex programs and strategic initiatives and breaking them into actionable pieces.

We are actively looking for professionals in the following areas:

• Agile Transformation
• Cloud and Technology Strategies
• DevOps
• Solution Design
• App Development

The ideal candidate’s experience may include but is not limited to the following:

• Knowledge and experience in one or more Cloud platforms (AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, etc.)
• Knowledge and experience in one or more database platforms (i.e. SQL, DB2, Oracle, Postgres, MySQL, NoSQL, etc.)
• Knowledge and experience in multiple software development languages (i.e.  Java, Javascript, C#, C++, Python, etc)
• Knowledge and experience with one or more software frameworks (i.e. .Net, NodeJS, React, Angular. etc.)
• Knowledge and experience with IoT and Edge Computing strategies and concepts   
• Experience collaborating with clients to translate business requirements into technical requirements
• Experience leading and/or contributing at a significant level to project teams in best practices, design principles, and advanced technologies
• Knowledge and experience in both agile and waterfall project management methodologies 
• Experience leading Waterfall to Agile transformation projects of all sizes
• Coaching Agile process and best practices for teams and organizations

A career at SEI extends well beyond providing great service and thought leadership to our clients. Everyone takes an active role in building and managing our business, in an environment that runs counter to traditional consulting firms. Our consultants have a “seat at the table” and contribute to growing our business in ways that align to their interests such as growing business development opportunities, conducting interviews to support our hiring process, managing internal initiatives that build our brand or organizing trainings to share what you know with your colleagues. There is no telling what an SEI Consultant will be asked to do on a day-to-day basis – we do what it takes to get the job done.

QUALIFICATIONS

Required-

• Alignment to our core values: Excellence, Participation, Integrity, and Collaboration
• Hungry, Humble, Smart
• Demonstrated business and technology acumen
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Understanding and experience solving real business problems
• Proven track record of delivering results
• Experience working with and/or leading a team
• Ability to work across industries, roles, functions & technologies
• Authorization for permanent employment in the United States (this position is not eligible for immigration sponsorship)

Preferred-

• Bachelor’s degree
• 8+ years professional experience
• Experience across our service offerings