Lead Analyst , Medical Cost Analytics / Utilization Management - Remote

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Bring your heart to CVS Health. Every one of us at CVS Health shares a single, clear purpose: Bringing our heart to every moment of your health. This purpose guides our commitment to deliver enhanced human-centric health care for a rapidly changing world. Anchored in our brand — with heart at its center — our purpose sends a personal message that how we deliver our services is just as important as what we deliver.
 

Position Summary

The Lead Analyst, Medical Cost Analytics / Utilization Management role will apply experience from strategy consulting and analytics to successfully act as the product owner for multiple analytics initiatives. The Lead Analyst will be regarded as a specialist, evaluating trends to save medical costs. This role will drive strategic decisions thru detailed economic analysis, sharing ideas and driving initiatives for medical cost savings.

Responsibilities include:

• Consulting on the creation of analytics solutions that effectively weigh business and technical tradeoffs using an advanced understanding of business strategy as well as relevant big data environment topics.

• Acting as an analytics product owner translating business needs into analytics projects and actions.

• Collaborating with business partners to understand their problems and goals, performing statistical analysis, developing data reports and performance metrics.

• Consulting with internal clients to identify opportunities to implement data science solutions to business problems at an advanced level.

• Acting as an analytics product owner translating business needs into analytics projects and actions.

• Structuring data analysis, driving analytics insights and analytical solutions to help data scientists determine the best analytical solution.

• Understanding key drivers of business value and being able to translate into business opportunities and frame them as analytical problems. i.e. how to grow business

• Ability to translate business problems into analytical solutions by knowing appropriate models to suggest to data scientists.

• Understanding and recommending modeling techniques to data scientists.

• Presenting recommendations to senior staff and internal clients.

• Mentoring more junior team members.

• Shareing insights across teams.

• Autonomously leading the business partner relationship.

• Leading development of solutions with high complexity and risk.

Required Qualifications

• 7+ years' leading analytics initiatives with a track record of business impact

• 5+ years' experience using SQL to extract, manipulate and analyze large datasets

• 4+ years experience working in Healthcare industry, with Healthcare data

• 4+ years' experience in strategic consulting or on strategy teams in a large company, providing actionable insights and recommendations to senior leaders and stakeholders to support strategic decision making

• 3+ years' experience identifying trends and opportunities for cost savings initiatives and evaluating the effectiveness of programs

• Excellent communication and presentation skills, with the ability to explain complex data and findings to a variety of stakeholders

• Strong organizational skills, with the ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously

• Collaborative with a growth mindset and excellent interpersonal skills

• Knowledge of healthcare industry trends and regulatory changes

• High proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite including MS Excel and PowerPoint.

Preferred Qualifications

• Proficiency in most areas of mathematical analysis methods, machine learning, statistical analyses, and predictive modeling and in-depth specialization in some areas

Education

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Econ