Data Analyst, Product Strategy

The Product Strategy Analyst is passionate and motivated by Healthfirst’s mission and wants to make a lasting impact in healthcare. This individual will create significant impact by providing the analytical support to the Medicaid Product Strategy team to develop, assist in execution, and continuously improve upon a strategy that supports a profitable growth across the Medicaid market portfolio of products.

• Work collaboratively with finance analysis, sales, marketing and other departments as necessary to support market growth plans to achieve market growth and profitability objectives 

• Compile information from multiple sources to prepare and distribute time-sensitive and accurate reporting for internal and external audiences 

• Support team in analysis of the financial performance of the Medicaid Products, identify favorable and unfavorable trends, develop recommendations to improve trends, communicate recommendations to management through a P&L focused mindset 

• Design, create, modify, support and maintain monthly competitive reports 

• Prepare ad-hoc reporting as required by senior management and external partners 

• Support team in creation of models to forecast growth performance and financial outcomes 

• Effectively manage projects by setting clear project milestones and deliverables; clearly communicating goals, objectives and responsibilities. Participate in meetings to gather and specify departmental requirements for such projects 

• Develop applications and reports using Microsoft Excel, Tableau and pertinent databases 

Minimum Qualifications: 

• Bachelor’s Degree from accredited institution 

• SAS, SQL and/or Tableau skills with ability to query, compile, and manipulate large datasets  

• Advanced skills in Microsoft Excel 

• A tendency to take full ownership of a situation or deliverable. This means having pride in one’s work, being an expert in the area, and a willingness to do whatever it takes to get to a result. 

• Understand and translate highly complex concepts to a wide range of audience. This means the ability to take a complex program or situation and break it down into simpler, constituent parts. 

• Experience in analyzing membership growth and retention trends and identifying drivers   

• Ability to efficiently validate data and analyses to identify potential errors in final results  

• Highly analytical person who can demonstrates problem solving and critical thinking skills. 

• Strong public speaking and oral and written communicati