Senior Strategic Planning Analyst

About the role

The Sr. Strategic Planning Analyst supports the Office of Strategy Management’s programs/initiatives designed to advance health system strategic goals. This position supports the group through data mining, customized analysis, and well-synthesized and presented findings.

Responsibilities

• Collects and analyzes performance and sales data to address areas that require improvement, subsequently implementing the appropriate organizational changes.
• Conducts market research to develop strategies aimed at maximizing performance and profitability.
• Recommends and develops strategy changes based on emerging trends, expansion opportunities, competitive threats, and business partner viability.
• Tracks and communicates the results of strategic organizational changes.
• Performs analyses and makes appropriate recommendations to business plans for the health system, including on-site and off-site locations.
• Performs industry research, gathers benchmark data, and conducts analyses to forecast and create strategic plans.
• Drafts potential business scenarios/plans, based on assessments of current and future trends, for consideration/evaluation by executive leadership.
• Supports staff members in tracking progress toward established goals & objectives.
• Assists in identifying and resolving barriers to attaining goals.
• Develops dashboards, presentations, reports, and other documents to communicate progress toward established goals.
• Identifies new growth initiatives, lines of business, and partnership opportunities.
• Prepares data from multiple and various large datasets for analysis, automating data prep when possible.
• Creates data visualizations using available applications (e.g. Tableau, MS Excel, ArcGIS).
• Leverages literature (e.g. journal articles, white papers, etc.) and other publicly available data resources related to data requests to inform analysis when appropriate.

Qualifications

• Master’s degree in business/healthcare administration or other related field.
• Minimum 4 years strategic planning, or related, experience in complex organizations.

Preferred Qualifications

• 5-6 years strategic planning, or related, experience in complex organizations.