Healthcare Analyst III

About the Role

The Healthcare Analyst III is a strategic analytics partner within Medica’s Trend Analytics team, supporting a single Line of Business (LOB). This role connects financial performance to actionable analytics, identifies opportunities to reduce medical expenses, and drives affordability through data-driven insights.

Responsibilities

• Act as a subject matter expert on healthcare analytics, providing advanced guidance on the interpretation and application of complex medical and pharmacy data.
• Translate financial performance into actionable insights that inform business decisions and strategic initiatives.
• Lead the development of analytic frameworks that support business strategies, affordability initiatives, and operational performance improvement.
• Collaborate with internal stakeholders to translate business questions into analytic approaches aligned with strategic goals.
• Explore data with curiosity and rigor to identify emerging trends, risks, and opportunities.
• Serve as a key liaison between analytics and business teams, ensuring insights are actionable, relevant, and integrated into decision-making processes.
• Ensure data integrity and consistency across reporting and analytic outputs.
• Respond to ad hoc analysis requests with timely, accurate, and insightful deliverables.
• Support internal teams with data interpretation, metric development, and performance tracking.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams across the broader business.
• Present findings to executive leaders, tailoring insights to strategic priorities.
• Employ best practices in storytelling and visualization to drive engagement and understanding.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in a related field.
• 5 years of work experience beyond degree.

Preferred Qualifications

• Advanced working knowledge of healthcare analytics, affordability metrics, and medical/pharmacy data trends.
• Proficiency in SQL, data visualization tools (e.g., Tableau, Power BI), and statistical methods.
• Strong proficiency in data analysis tools (e.g., SAS, SQL, Python, R) and Microsoft Office applications.
• Demonstrated ability to extract, evaluate, and interpret complex data sets with strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, capable of conveying complex information clearly and concisely to diverse audiences.
• Experience working both independently and collaboratively in cross-functional teams.
• Ability to function as a subject matter expert and mentor to other staff.

Schedule

This position is an Office role, requiring onsite work, on average, 3 days per week. Open to candidates near Minnetonka, MN, Madison, WI, or St. Louis, MO.

Pay

The full salary grade for this position is $90,500 - $155,200. The typical hiring salary range is $90,500 - $122,835. Placement depends on factors including education, experience, certifications, and market data.

Benefits

Medica offers a generous total rewards package, including competitive medical, dental, vision, PTO, holidays, paid volunteer time off, 401K contributions, caregiver services, and more.