How to hire a consulting practice manager

How to hire a consulting practice manager, step by step

Here's a step-by-step consulting practice manager hiring guide:

• Step 1: Identify your hiring needs
• Step 2: Create an ideal candidate profile
• Step 3: Make a budget
• Step 4: Write a consulting practice manager job description
• Step 5: Post your job
• Step 6: Interview candidates
• Step 7: Send a job offer and onboard your new consulting practice manager
• Step 8: Go through the hiring process checklist

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1. Identify your hiring needs

   Before you post your consulting practice manager job, you should take the time to determine what type of worker your business needs. While certain jobs definitely require a full-time employee, it's sometimes better to find a consulting practice manager for hire on a part-time basis or as a contractor.

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   Hiring the perfect consulting practice manager also involves considering the ideal background you'd like them to have. Depending on what industry or field they have experience in, they'll bring different skills to the job. It's also important to consider what levels of seniority and education the job requires and what kind of salary such a candidate would likely demand.

   Here's a comparison of consulting practice manager salaries for various roles:

   Type of Consulting Practice Manager	Description	Hourly rate
   Consulting Practice Manager	Computer and information systems managers, often called information technology (IT) managers or IT project managers, plan, coordinate, and direct computer-related activities in an organization. They help determine the information technology goals of an organization and are responsible for implementing computer systems to meet those goals.	$50-97
   Vice President Of Information Technology	A Vice President Of Information Technology supervises an organization's technology initiatives, IT changes, and updates to all projects. They also identify and propose new information technologies and systems to improve business processes and decision-making.	$52-111
   Vice President, Technology	A vice president of technology is in charge of overseeing all technological operations in a company while managing the workforce involved, ensuring efficiency and smooth workflow. Typically, it is their responsibility to establish goals and objectives, devising strategies to enforce them... Show more	$50-104

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2. Create an ideal candidate profile

   Common skills:

   • Project Management
   • Business Plan
   • Customer Satisfaction
   • Cloud
   • Performance Management
   • Oracle Erp
   • Human Resources
   • Direct Reports
   • Revenue Growth
   • Process Improvement
   • Business Process
   • EMR
   • Cash Flow
   • CRM

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   Responsibilities:

   • Manage the creation of a strategy to migrate a large manage care organization to a vendor package to achieve HIPAA compliance.
   • Manage all on-site activities in such a way that promotes the satisfaction and welfare of the patients.
   • Manage the revenue, sales pipeline, forecasting, and margin target attainment for the hosted CRM practice.
   • Manage major transformation by creating/designing and implementing new EHR operating system providing communications, training and technical support throughout the process.
   • Maintain oversight of in-house practice management.
   • Interpret the practice s policies and procedures to employees, patients, family members, government agencies, as necessary.

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3. Make a budget

   Including a salary range in the consulting practice manager job description is a good way to get more applicants. A consulting practice manager salary can be affected by several factors, such as the location of the job, the level of experience, education, certifications, and the employer's prestige.

   For example, the average salary for a consulting practice manager in North Dakota may be lower than in New Hampshire, and an entry-level engineer typically earns less than a senior-level consulting practice manager. Additionally, a consulting practice manager with lots of experience in the field may command a higher salary as a result.

   Average consulting practice manager salary

   $146,729yearly

   $70.54 hourly rate

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   Entry-level consulting practice manager salary

   $106,000 yearly salary

   Updated December 16, 2025

   Average consulting practice manager salary by state

   Rank	State	Avg. salary	Hourly rate
   1	New Hampshire	$175,166	$84
   2	Washington	$169,343	$81
   3	Arizona	$167,849	$81
   4	California	$165,024	$79
   5	New Jersey	$161,921	$78
   6	Missouri	$154,444	$74
   7	Michigan	$154,413	$74
   8	Connecticut	$153,678	$74
   9	Wisconsin	$152,890	$74
   10	Utah	$151,891	$73
   11	New York	$149,769	$72
   12	Massachusetts	$145,846	$70
   13	Georgia	$144,951	$70
   14	Ohio	$144,099	$69
   15	Illinois	$143,545	$69
   16	Nevada	$143,154	$69
   17	Delaware	$142,919	$69
   18	Alaska	$141,682	$68
   19	Hawaii	$139,846	$67
   20	West Virginia	$137,470	$66

   Average consulting practice manager salary by company

   Company

   Rank	Company	Average salary	Hourly rate	Job openings
   1	Avnet	$165,467	$79.55
   2	FTI Consulting	$157,539	$75.74	5
   3	Geisinger Medical Center	$152,614	$73.37	7
   4	VitalChek	$148,581	$71.43	2
   5	Oracle	$148,116	$71.21	993
   6	The Claro Group	$146,016	$70.20
   7	Amazon	$145,479	$69.94	194
   8	J. J. Keller & Associates	$143,582	$69.03
   9	FIS	$140,018	$67.32	1
   10	Hospital Sisters Health System	$138,017	$66.35	1
   11	Wipro Limited	$135,476	$65.13	4
   12	Lincoln Financial Group	$131,135	$63.05
   13	Structure Consulting Group LLC	$129,739	$62.37
   14	Sonendo	$129,710	$62.36
   15	RELX	$129,534	$62.28	17
   16	EMC	$129,039	$62.04
   17	Covetrus	$126,892	$61.01

4. Writing a consulting practice manager job description

   A job description for a consulting practice manager role includes a summary of the job's main responsibilities, required skills, and preferred background experience. Including a salary range can also go a long way in attracting more candidates to apply, and showing the first name of the hiring manager can also make applicants more comfortable. As an example, here's a consulting practice manager job description:

   Consulting practice manager job description example

   Join the Cottage Health team as an Practice Transformation Consultant. In this role you will serve as a process management and improvement consultant to the ambulatory clinic operations for Cottage Health. The focus of the position is to research and analyze complex issues surrounding clinic, operational and business process workflows within diverse clinic settings. Additional highlights of the role include:
   
   * Develops strategies for infrastructure level recommendations surrounding improving processes, efficiency, and practices within clinic operations.
   
   * Assists in the setup of new clinics and services as well as oversees the transition of clinic workflows from affiliating practices as we migrate to a standard operating model.
   
   * Facilitates workshops and change initiatives to simulate and test improvements and communicate changes and/or develop training to the impacted staff roles and functions.
   
   * Functions independently to identify and analyze performance metrics and coordinates with clinic managers to align improvement strategies to the strategic and operational plans of the various ambulatory departments and clinics. Coordinates efforts with Revenue Cycle, Patient Access, ITS, and other departments to assure operational processes align with larger system goals, processes, and initiatives.
   
   At Cottage Health, we are proud of our generous Total Rewards package. We offer benefit programs that help us hire the best people.
   
   Our benefits program is called Choices…for Health…for Wealth…for Life. We take great pride in continuously evaluating our Choices program to offer the most competitive benefits in the health care industry. We offer employees excellent traditional benefit plans like medical, dental, life insurance, and disability coverage, along with a leading-edge Wellness Program of health improvement opportunities. The program provides tools that allow you to bring the same attention to your health that Cottage Health does to the health of our patients.
   QUALIFICATIONS:
   
   LEVEL OF EDUCATION
   
   Minimum: A Baccalaureate degree from an accredited college or university or eight (8) years of applicable and progressively responsible work experience.
   
   Preferred: Master's degree
   
   CERTIFICATIONS, LICENSES, REGISTRATIONS
   
   Minimum: Epic ambulatory experience.
   
   Preferred: Epic Certification; Formal training in project management and process improvement methodologies; and/or additional certification in LEAN or Six Sigma
   
   TECHNICAL REQUIREMENTS
   
   Minimum: Knowledge and experience with a range of process improvement methodologies; ability to facilitate group and end-user process mapping and redesign efforts. Comfort with the interrelationship between healthcare IT and operational workflows in the clinical setting.
   
   Preferred: Experience in an organization using an Epic EMR
   
   YEARS OF RELATED WORK EXPERIENCE
   
   Minimum: Five (5) years of experience in ambulatory care operations and/or consulting with operations leaders in different ambulatory clinical care environments. Demonstrated success with process improvement, project management and workflow redesign.

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5. Post your job

   There are various strategies that you can use to find the right consulting practice manager for your business:

   • Consider promoting from within or recruiting from your existing workforce.
   • Ask for referrals from friends, family members, and current employees.
   • Attend job fairs at local colleges to find candidates who meet your education requirements.
   • Use social media platforms like LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter to reach potential job candidates.

   Post your job online:

   • Post your consulting practice manager job on Zippia to find and recruit consulting practice manager candidates who meet your exact specifications.
   • Use field-specific websites.
   • Post a job on free websites.

6. Interview candidates

   To successfully recruit consulting practice managers, your first interview needs to engage with candidates to learn about their interest in the role and experience in the field. You can go into more detail about the company, the role, and the responsibilities during follow-up interviews.

   Remember to include a few questions that allow candidates to expand on their strengths in their own words. Asking about their unique skills might reveal things you'd miss otherwise. At this point, good candidates can move on to the technical interview.

   The right interview questions can help you assess a candidate's hard skills, behavioral intelligence, and soft skills.

7. Send a job offer and onboard your new consulting practice manager

   Once you've found the consulting practice manager candidate you'd like to hire, it's time to write an offer letter. This should include an explicit job offer that includes the salary and the details of any other perks. Qualified candidates might be looking at multiple positions, so your offer must be competitive if you like the candidate. Also, be prepared for a negotiation stage, as candidates may way want to tweak the details of your initial offer. Once you've settled on these details, you can draft a contract to formalize your agreement.

   It's also important to follow up with applicants who do not get the job with an email letting them know that the position is filled.

   Once that's done, you can draft an onboarding schedule for the new consulting practice manager. Human Resources should complete Employee Action Forms and ensure that onboarding paperwork is completed, including I-9s, benefits enrollment, federal and state tax forms, etc. They should also ensure that new employee files are created for internal recordkeeping.

8. Go through the hiring process checklist

   • Determine employee type (full-time, part-time, contractor, etc.)
   • Submit a job requisition form to the HR department
   • Define job responsibilities and requirements
   • Establish budget and timeline
   • Determine hiring decision makers for the role
   • Write job description
   • Post job on job boards, company website, etc.
   • Promote the job internally
   • Process applications through applicant tracking system
   • Review resumes and cover letters
   • Shortlist candidates for screening
   • Hold phone/virtual interview screening with first round of candidates
   • Conduct in-person interviews with top candidates from first round
   • Score candidates based on weighted criteria (e.g., experience, education, background, cultural fit, skill set, etc.)
   • Conduct background checks on top candidates
   • Check references of top candidates
   • Consult with HR and hiring decision makers on job offer specifics
   • Extend offer to top candidate(s)
   • Receive formal job offer acceptance and signed employment contract
   • Inform other candidates that the position has been filled
   • Set and communicate onboarding schedule to new hire(s)
   • Complete new hire paperwork (i9, benefits enrollment, tax forms, etc.)

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