Healthcare Insights Management Director - Clinical Enterprise

Huron helps its clients drive growth, enhance performance and sustain leadership in the markets they serve. We help healthcare organizations build innovation capabilities and accelerate key growth initiatives, enabling organizations to own the future, instead of being disrupted by it. Together, we empower clients to create sustainable growth, optimize internal processes and deliver better consumer outcomes.

Health systems, hospitals and medical clinics are under immense pressure to improve clinical outcomes and reduce the cost of providing patient care. Investing in new partnerships, clinical services and technology is not enough to create meaningful and substantive change. To succeed long-term, healthcare organizations must empower leaders, clinicians, employees, affiliates and communities to build cultures that foster innovation to achieve the best outcomes for patients.

Joining the Huron team means you’ll help our clients evolve and adapt to the rapidly changing healthcare environment and optimize existing business operations, improve clinical outcomes, create a more consumer-centric healthcare experience, and drive physician, patient and employee engagement across the enterprise.

Join our team as the expert you are now and create your future.

The Insights Management Director will serve in an instrumental role building and delivering on Huron’s Insights Management initiatives. Within this role, the individual will support the continued advancement of the data analytics process while providing healthcare clients with comprehensive insights to understand their performance and opportunities for improvements. We seek to provide insights to ensure quality, identify impactful areas for enhancement, and provide tactical next steps for improvement.

Performance Improvement Analytics is unique as it combines a technology enabled analytics platform with an operational understanding to interpret the data. In addition to very strong technical skills, this position requires critical thinking, attention to detail and strong interpersonal skills. This role will require you to perform analysis to assess quality and meaning of data and leverage advanced techniques to identify patterns and trends. Identified insights will then guide our clients to take appropriate and meaningful actions to address their operational pain points. You will need to demonstrate patience and curiosity as clients and internal stakeholders engage you to understand and act on the insights you provide.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Extract and analyze data from Huron’s analytics platform to identify patterns and related trends to synthesize data into information
• Perform advanced data exploration and interpretation to research metrics from data across multiple sources to enable comparisons across data sets
• Build data visualization tools, dashboards and reports
• Identify areas of opportunities, levers, and actionable strategies to address
• Continually identify new next generation metrics and insights to be built into the analytics platform
• Perform data mapping, standardization, validation and quality assurance, ensuring highest standards of data integrity throughout the data collection to reporting pipeline
• Define and monitor comparability across multiple organizations (aka cohort comparisons or benchmarking) in alignment to industry best practice standards and peer groups
• Query data to answer internal or client questions
• Coordinate with functional and technical resources to implement and support new technologies and processes. Enhance the analytical/reporting performance of the Insights Management team and Huron in the service of its clients.

CORE QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelor's degree (BS, BA) required / preferred areas of study include Health Care Informatics, mathematics, statistics, finance, technical or health care analytics related discipline or equivalent experience
• 8-10 years of relevant experience in healthcare
• Proven analytical skills particularly with large, comprehensive data sets
• Proven critical thinking skills in both data collection and complex analysis; ability to identify data gaps and risks, develop sound conclusions, and create implementable and sustainable recommendations for improvement
• Ability to apply proven methodologies and best practices to unique client situations; skilled at collaboration with project team members and client stakeholders to identify opportunities for improvement
• Demonstrated ability to communicate ideas clearly and concisely to internal and client s