Healthcare Data Analyst, Life Sciences - Indianapolis Health

Overview

Milliman is looking for an experienced Healthcare Data Analyst, Life Sciences to support our consulting work with pharmaceutical manufacturers. As a Healthcare Data Analyst, you will have an opportunity to work with a multi-disciplinary team to develop and execute solutions using data-based approaches across a variety of coding platforms. Our solutions support pharmaceutical manufacturers’ strategies for their products. You will be part of a dynamic client delivery team and receive mentoring from colleagues. Successful data analysts are problem solvers, have the ability to code (with interest to learn more), and are able to communicate technical results in a clear and concise manner.

Who We Are

Independent for 75 years, Milliman delivers market-leading services and solutions to clients worldwide. Today, we are helping companies take on some of the world’s most critical and complex issues, including retirement funding and healthcare financing, risk management and regulatory compliance, data analytics and business transformation.

Milliman invests in skills training and career development, and gives all employees access to a variety of learning and mentoring opportunities. Our growing number of Milliman Employee Resource Groups (ERG’s) are employee-led communities that influence policy decisions, develop future leaders, and amplify the voices of their constituents. We encourage our employees to give back to their varied professions, including leadership in professional organizations. Please visit our web site (https://www.milliman.com/en/social-impact) to learn more about Milliman’s commitments to our people, diversity and inclusion, social impact and sustainability.

Through a team of professionals ranging from actuaries to clinicians, technology specialists to plan administrators, we offer unparalleled expertise in employee benefits, investment consulting, healthcare, life insurance and financial services, and property and casualty insurance.

Responsibilities

In this role, you will:

• Analyze large, complex health and drug datasets
• Develop and implement data analysis plans to address project objectives
• Support data staging and processes for monthly client deliverables
• Produce sophisticated code and check for reasonability of results 
• Build user-friendly and dynamic models for client uses 
• Utilize strong problem solving skills 
• Effectively communicate data analysis findings to the consulting team - verbally and written
• Work efficiently in a multi-task environment
• Work both independently and collaboratively on projects

Qualifications

• Experience with Microsoft Excel or other similar software in performing quantitative analysis
• Proficient in one or more coding languages (e.g., SAS, R, VBA, SQL) with the desire to learn others
• Strong written and oral communication skills
• Organizational and time management skills

Required:

• Bachelors Degree in mathematics, actuarial science, computer science, data science, statistics, economics, or other quantitative field
• 1 to 3 years of full-time professional work experience in a similar role, or within the pharmaceutical industry

Preferred:

• Master’s degree in related, quantitative field
• Experience with R Shiny
• Experience in application development and software implementation
• Experience working within a pharmaceutical/biotechnology company, other health-related company, and/or consulting firm environment(s)

Individual(s) must be legally authorized to work in the United States without the need for immigration support or sponsorship from Milliman now or in the future.

The Team

The Life Sciences consulting team is a group of 40+ individuals in the Indianapolis Health practice from varying backgrounds including actuaries, data analysts, pharmacists, and graphic designers. This group works primarily with pharmaceutical manufacturers by combining healthcare and payer knowledge, available data, analytic rigor, and industry experience to produce strategic and tactical insights for their clients.

Location

The person hired for this role will work in a dynamic, hybrid environment, with 2 to 3 days per week of on-site work required in our Indianapolis office on a weekly basis.

Benefits

We offer a comprehensive benefits package designed to support employees’ health, financial security, and well-being. Benefits include:

• Medical, Dental and Vision - Coverage for employees, dependents, and dom