Senior Clinical and Population Health Analyst – Social Health Analytics

Company :

Highmark Health

Job Description : 

JOB SUMMARY

This role delivers high-impact analytics and insights focused on Social Determinants of Health (SDOH) to support enterprise strategy and population health initiatives. The position contributes to the development and evolution of enterprise SDOH dashboards and self-service analytic tools, with a focus on analytical rigor, scalability, and alignment to high-value use cases. The incumbent serves as a consultative analytic partner to the Enterprise SDOH team, collaborating to refine analytic questions and translate complex needs into clear, actionable analytic approaches. As reporting capabilities mature, this role will support advanced analysis of varied and multilevel data in exploratory, evaluative, and research-adjacent analytic work, and development of insights that inform program design and strategic decision-making.  

ESSENTIAL RESPONSIBILITIES

• Supports and leads the design, development, execution, dissemination and interpretation of clinical and population health analyses, metrics and reports using clinical, member, financial and administrative data to identify, develop and/or monitor actionable opportunities for improving health and healthcare outcomes and clinical quality and costs of care, efficiently and effectively managing projects to successful completion.
• Establishes strong, collaborative and effective relationships and communication with internal and external clinical, administrative, operational, financial and technical stakeholders to ensure analytics are actionable and aligned with organizational strategic priorities, needs, plans and resources.
• Serves as a strategic business partner to internal and external stakeholders as demonstrated by providing thought leadership and subject matter expertise.
• Provides consultative, technical, subject matter and business expertise mentorship to colleagues across the enterprise.
• Other duties as assigned or requested.

EDUCATION
Required

• Bachelor's Degree in Public Health, Nursing, Economics, Health Sciences, Informatics, Biostatistics, Statistics, Epidemiology or Pharmacy or closely related field

Substitutions

• None

Preferred

• Master's Degree in Medicine, Public Health, Nursing, Economics, Health Sciences, Informatics, Biostatistics, Statistics, Epidemiology, Pharmacy or related field

EXPERIENCE

Required

• 5 years of leading the design, execution and dissemination of clinical and population health reporting, analyses and studies of progressive scope and complexity
• 5 years with coding languages, analytical software, systems, tools and processes using claims, clinical, enrollment and provider data
• 3 years of project leadership in a complex, matrixed environment (payer and/or provider preferred)
• 3 years of providing analytical consultation to clinical, administrative, operational and financial stakeholders

Preferred

• Applied experience analyzing Social Determinants of Health (SDOH) data 

• Experience developing analytic applications or dashboards (e.g., RShiny, Tableau) to support self-service analytics 

• Experience partnering with stakeholders to refine and prioritize analytic questions in ambiguous problem spaces

LICENSES or CERTIFICATIONS

Required

• None

Preferred

• None

SKILLS

• Demonstrated record of data-driven discovery, intense intellectual curiosity, and a passion for working with data to answer important questions about clinical care and population health that drive the Quadruple Aim
• Strong working knowledge of coding languages, relational databases, quantitative and qualitative analytic methodologies, advanced analytics and statistics
• Excellent communication and facilitation skills with project team members, stakeholders, executives, and external customer, excep