Sr Strategic Planning Analyst

About the role

Exceptional care starts with exceptional people. For us, this is more than a job– it’s a calling. It’s waking up each day, looking for ways to make a difference with a compassionate, inclusive and talented team. Ochsner empowers you to discover your passion, reach your potential, and Pursue Your Purpose. Exceptional care starts with exceptional people and teams. Together we are leading the way.

Responsibilities

• Provides analysis to an assigned area of business and organizes and manages special projects, including the analysis of service line growth initiatives.
• Serves as a direct resource to operational management and administrative leadership on strategic initiatives.
• Leads, trains, reviews, and validates work product of assigned departmental staff.
• Aids in identifying growth opportunities, risks, and trends using data analytic capabilities and provides actionable recommendations.
• Participates in formation of system-wide strategic planning process and provides integrated analysis and actionable recommendations to support strategic growth.
• Supervises, organizes and manages special projects involving service line analysis including competitive demographics and mapping analysis.
• Leverages multiple data sources to mine, combine, manipulate, and analyze large volumes of data to support strategic opportunities and drive growth and maintains and validates databases and data sources.
• Produces standard daily, weekly, and/or monthly reporting packages to support service lines and/or other system growth initiatives and responds to ad hoc reporting requests and answers questions from users of the departmental reports.
• Assists in system-wide strategic planning process for service line growth initiatives using various data sources including inpatient discharges, claims, demographics and mapping software.
• Performs other related duties as required.
• Remains knowledgeable on current federal, state and local laws, accreditation standards or regulatory agency requirements that apply to the assigned area of responsibility and ensures compliance with all such laws, regulations and standards.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in business, finance, accounting, mathematics, statistics, computer science or related field.
• Preferred: Master’s degree in business administration (MBA) or other advanced degree.
• 3 years of experience in data analytics, trending, forecasting, modeling, and reporting.
• Preferred: 3 years of experience in data analytics, trending, forecasting, modeling, and reporting in healthcare.

Skills

• Advanced computer software knowledge including Microsoft Office - Excel, Word, and Power Point, Tableau and database applications.
• Strong competency in Excel, Tableau, or other data analysis; mapping; and/or visualization software.
• Effective verbal and written communication skills and ability to present information clearly and professionally to varying levels of individuals throughout the patient care process.
• Strong leadership, analytical and problem-solving skills and ability to work collaboratively with leadership and provide actionable recommendations.
• Excellent organizational and time management skills.
• Excellent judgement and decision-making skills and ability to work independently.