2025 Summer Associate- Healthcare Performance Improvement

Our Summer Associate internships will be approximately 8 weeks in length and will begin Summer 2025. Summer associate positions are for candidates with expected graduation date between December 2025 and July 2026. 

This position is a virtual position within our Healthcare Performance Improvement Practice which requires travel to client sites up to 100% of the time. Candidates must be willing and able to travel.

Overview

Berkeley Research Group (BRG) is a global consulting firm that helps leading organizations advance in three key areas: disputes and investigations, corporate finance, performance improvement and advisory. We are an integrated group of experts, industry leaders, academics, data scientists, and economists, working beyond borders and disciplines. We harness our collective expertise to deliver the inspired insights and practical strategies our clients need to stay ahead of what’s next.

BRG works with standalone community hospitals, multihospital health systems, and major academic medical centers to achieve greater results through transformational performance improvement. Our consultants and experts have years of experience assisting hospitals with reducing labor and non-labor costs and improving revenue cycle operations. Our data analysts, physicians, professionals, and other clinicians aggregate complex clinical, cost, and quality data to better inform decision making and engage physicians in driving cost and quality improvements through clinical redesign.

Our healthcare consultants are leaders in providing measurable and sustainable results to clients. We combine traditional performance improvement with our clinical approach to help hospitals transform their organizations and significantly improve their margins, with strategies that emphasize rapid results and considerable return on investment.

Responsibilities 

The work of a Summer Associate can be either qualitative or quantitative in nature, and projects range from industry and subject matter research to data collection to the preparation of statistical, financial, and other forms of analysis. This position will work directly with the other team members to assess the opportunity and implement the initiatives determined to be beneficial to the client. 

• Develop and maintain electronic databases, spreadsheets and other files as dictated by project needs.
• Perform detailed research and analysis, then put the results into action (e.g., gather, review, and summarize literature and data from the public domain, specialized industry resources, or client, public and commercial databases).
• Demonstrate creativity and efficient use of relevant software tools, analytical methods and computer models to develop solutions.
• Audit own work product and work product of others to assure quality.
• Participate in a team environment and work hard to meet client deadlines and quality expectations.
• Demonstrate strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Organize client documents; create and maintain hard copy and electronic libraries for documents and retrieve documents as necessary
• Required travel to client site Monday-Thursday weekly

Qualifications

• Progression towards a Bachelor's or Master's degree or equivalent in the areas of healthcare administration, public health, business, economics, finance, accounting, statistics, engineering, or other related subject;
• 0 - 2 years of prior work experience preferred;
• 3.5 GPA or higher;
• Capability with MS Excel, Powerpoint, Word and relational database program(s) (e.g., MS SQL Server, SAS, MS Access, Tableau, Alteryx).
• Desire to work within a team environment;
• Excellent communication and analytical skills

 Candidate must be able to submit verification of his/her legal right to work in the United States, without company sponsorship now or in the future.

Hourly Range: $25-35/hr

BRG was named a 2024 Campus Forward Award Winner for Large Early Career Programs by Ripplematch. This award recognizes excellence in early career hiring, celebrating programs that embrace innovative recruitment strategies, make significant investments in diversity and inclusion, and support the next generation of talent through impactful internships and entry-level programs.  

BRG is a recipient of the Human Rights Campaigns Equality 100 Award for our LGBTQ+ corporate policies, practices and beliefs.