Advanced Analytics Consultant

About the role

The Health Economics Team (HET) is seeking an Advanced Analytics Consultant to support and enhance client-facing engagements with HCSC’s largest Commercial customers. The role involves analytic support and consultancy for these clients and advisory for internal senior-leader stakeholders related to population health and insurance.

Responsibilities

• Leverage strong technical skills (SQL, R, Python, and Tableau/PowerBI) and healthcare industry knowledge (payor, provider, pharmacy, public health, epidemiology, etc.) to support and enhance client-facing engagements.
• Communicate with and present to C-Suite stakeholders to elevate their understanding of plan cost and health drivers.
• Collaborate internally to address business problems and collaborate with management to scale impactful client engagements.
• Design and maintain standard data layers, develop coding standards and documentation for organizational use cases, and troubleshoot analytic development challenges.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree and 5 years of experience in health care services, statistical analysis, insurance industry economics or related field OR Master’s degree in related field with 3 years of experience in health care services, statistical analysis, or insurance industry economics or related field OR 9 years of experience in health care services, statistical analysis, or insurance industry economics or related field.
• Understanding of and highly proficient at querying a wide variety of healthcare data and related population data (medical/pharmacy claims, behavioral health claims, health care management (HCM) records, electronic medical records (EMR), provider databases (AMA, NPI, DEA, etc.), member/patient demographic data, and publicly available databases (U.S. Census, Bureau of Labor Statistics, NIH, etc.).
• Performance excellence in computer languages, such as SQL, R, Python.
• Ability to create a dynamic and visually engaging dashboard leveraging data visualization tools like Tableau or Power BI.
• A high degree of business intelligence and understanding how to take a business case from inception to customer or partner execution.
• Experience leading an analytic initiative to success.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills.
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
• Performance excellence in championing initiatives and collaborating with multiple stakeholders to bring the initiative to life.

Qualifications

• Masters and 3 years of experience in health care services, statistical analysis, or insurance industry economics including 1 year experience in analyzing medical claims data.
• Experience with Databricks.
• Experience with project management methodologies.
• Experience of Healthcare industry - payor, provider, pharmacy, public health, epidemiology, etc.
• Experience with version control/collaborative tools.

Skills

• Strong technical skills (SQL, R, Python).
• Data visualization tools (Tableau, Power BI).
• Business intelligence and analytics.
• Project management.
• Healthcare industry knowledge (payor, provider, pharmacy, public health, epidemiology, etc.).
• Version control/collaborative tools.

Benefits

HCSC offers a comprehensive benefits package including health, dental, vision, retirement savings, and paid time off.

Pay

$70,600.00 - $149,600.00 exact compensation may vary based on skills, experience, and location

Schedule

This role is a hybrid role that can be located in Chicago, IL or Richardson, TX. Relocation will not be offered; sponsorship is not available including if you are on OPT.