Manager - Health Economics - Financial & Economic Analysis
At HealthConsult, we’re seeking a Manager – Health Economics to join our growing Financial & Economic Analysis (FEA) service line. This is a senior, hands-on role. You will lead complex economic modelling, costing, pricing and funding reform projects while mentoring others and helping grow one of Australia’s leading specialist health advisory firms.
About the role
As a Manager at HealthConsult, you’ll contribute to projects shaping the future of Australia’s health, aging and disability systems. You will lead and deliver complex economic modelling, costing studies, and pricing or funding reform projects end-to-end, ensuring analytical rigour and real-world policy relevance. You will be accountable for defensible methods, transparent assumptions and audit-ready outputs suitable for senior government decision-making. Your day-to-day work will involve conducting and overseeing financial and economic analysis, developing business cases, and designing cost collection methods, pricing frameworks, or funding models to support major policy and investment decisions.
You will design and implement cost–benefit analyses, cost-effectiveness studies, and pricing models aligned to relevant Treasury guidance, developing robust counterfactuals and, where appropriate, applying quasi-experimental approaches (for example, difference-in-differences, interrupted time series or matching) with clear diagnostics and limitations. You will conduct sensitivity analysis to test the robustness of key assumptions and results. Importantly, you will remain hands-on in modelling – using R, Stata, Python, SQL and/or advanced Excel – ensuring technical quality, reproducibility and clear documentation while guiding the overall analytical strategy. You will oversee modelling quality assurance, version control and structured documentation of assumptions.
Working collaboratively within multidisciplinary teams, you’ll help design and apply robust health economic methods to complex service systems—developing evaluation frameworks, defining appropriate comparators and counterfactuals, and identifying data sources that enable cost, outcome and value analysis. You will contribute to the generation and synthesis of economic evidence that informs resource allocation, pricing and funding decisions across health, ageing and disability.
Managing multiple concurrent projects, you’ll ensure high-quality delivery within scope, time, and budget constraints – often working on initiatives that affect millions of Australians accessing our care systems. As part of your leadership responsibilities, you’ll mentor junior analysts and emerging consultants, building technical capability and confidence across the team. You’ll also contribute to proposal development and the growth of our economic and funding reform service line, helping to position HealthConsult at the forefront of evidence-based policy implementation and sector reform.
This role may involve occasional interstate travel.
About you
People will likely describe you as having the right blend of technical skills and commercial acumen.
You will also bring:
- A Master’s (or higher) in health economics, economics or a related discipline
- 6–8 years’ experience in consulting, government or applied economic analysis
- Demonstrated experience leading cost–benefit, pricing and/or funding reform analyses
- Deep experience in complex modeling and data analyses
- Experience supervising and mentoring junior analysts
- The ability to explain complex modelling clearly to non-technical audiences
Most importantly, you care about impact. You want your work to inform real decisions in health, ageing, and disability.
Eligibility: You must be an Australian citizen at the time an offer of employment is made.
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About us
We specialise in the health, ageing and disability systems and for over 20 years, we have provided evidence-based advice to governments, insurers, health services and care providers. Our multidisciplinary team – spanning clinicians, economists, scientists, and more – works with clients to solve complex sector challenges.
With over 500 projects delivered, from $80K to $17M, we specialise in policy, program evaluation, financial and economic analysis, and digital health. Our Partners and Directors are hands-on, dedicating over half of all consulting hours to mentorship and project guidance.
As an independent firm with no ties to software providers or overseas parents, we offer impartial advice grounded in decades of experience.
Visit our website to learn more about our latest work at www.healthconsult.com.au
Top reasons to join us
- You won’t be bored. You will be supporting our teams to tackle some really big problems – the type of projects that you look back on in 20 years and say “I helped do that”.
- We’re small by design (and free from large organisation hierarchy). More opportunities to work alongside senior experts. More opportunities to see your ideas through to fruition. And a guarantee that your hard work will be recognised.
- Impact over profits. Our owners will be working alongside you which means we have the luxury to prioritise making a difference over arbitrary sales targets.
- We have 5 weeks annual leave policy. Everyone is entitled to 5 weeks leave every year. We recognise the demands of consulting life. This extra week of leave lets us better balance our work and personal lives
- We give people flexibility to manage their day. Need to start a little later? Need to pick up the kids from school? It’s all possible. Our focus is on producing high-quality work, not what time you log-on or off.
- And we don’t do time sheets! We trust people to use their time wisely. We don’t ‘keep watch’ over people,checking to see what they’re doing every minute of the day.
Ready to make an impact?
If you’re looking for a role where your expertise truly matters, click “Apply Now” and become part of a team that’s helping create a better future for 27 million Australians.
To request a copy of the position description, please email: admin@healthconsult.com.au
Please apply via the link, ensuring that you upload a CV and tailored cover letter.
Please note: Applicants must be Australian Citizens to be considered for this role.
