Population Health Senior Analyst

Position Summary

Boston Medical Center Health System is an integrated health system dedicated to providing exceptional care without exception. The System Analytics team supports the health system in measuring performance, understanding key drivers, and identifying new opportunities.

Key Responsibilities

• Work independently with business leaders to scope and conduct analyses that help the organization understand and monitor performance, break down key drivers, and identify new opportunities
• Lead analytic projects such as vendor partnerships, development of predictive analytic tools, or data validation workstreams
• Act as technical and analytic expert for the System Analytics team
• Mentor, train, and onboard new analysts to the team
• Create reports and dashboards that effectively communicate performance to operational and clinical leaders and stakeholders
• Translate complex analysis into simple visualizations that can communicate key takeaways to leaders and stakeholders
• Understand health system data sources and support data architecture team to ensure that data is clean, normalized, and accurate
• Establish credibility and trust in data integrity and accuracy across internal and external stakeholders
• Present analyses to senior leaders and other stakeholders
• Collaborate across the health system to ensure that assumptions and methodologies are consistent
• Manage multiple projects and analyses simultaneously while meeting key deadlines and deliverables, and prioritizing time and resources
• Identify and elevate key obstacles for intervention that may jeopardize timelines

Job Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree, preference for concentration in economics, math, statistics, health informatics or data science
• Master’s degree in a related field, preferred
• 5+ years of data analytics experience with progressive responsibility, working with large data sets to answer important clinical, operational, or business questions
• 3+ years of experience working with medical claims data in managed healthcare or insurance operations, with preference for analysis on Medicare or Medicaid risk products
• 3+ years of experience developing dashboards using Tableau
• Able to conduct advanced analytics using SAS and SQL; fluent in Excel
• Able to meet deadlines, multi-task, problem solve and use appropriate technology to analyze business problems. Project management skills a plus.
• Strong communications skills, both verbal and written
• Experience with quality measures (e.g. HEDIS, CMS measures) preferred
• Experience with external grouping methodologies such as DRG, ETG and DxCG/CDPS in analytics preferred

Knowledge/Skills

• Tech proficient: Capable of manipulating large data sets, cleaning and normalizing data, generating analysis and working through challenges independently
• Analytic thinking: Effective at identifying the critical question, capable of navigating the trade-off’s between accuracy / comprehensiveness / complexity vs. speed and simplicity, able to make independent decisions on how to adjust assumptions and analyses, can distill complex analysis into simple charts to communicate key takeaways
• Experienced in working with medical claims: Possesses a baseline understanding of the structure of raw claims billing data, and how to extract relevant clinical insights
• Curious and creative: Capable of finding the right analytic approach, always asking questions and testing the data and analysis to ensure that we are answering the right key questions
• Outcomes-focused: Ability to manage multiple high priority projects simultaneously and prioritize to meet key projects
• Passionate about our mission: Highest level of integrity and respect for colleagues and for our mission to provide Exceptional Care Without Exception to our patients and members