Strategy Analyst

A Brief Overview

The Strategy Analyst plays a key role in driving organizational strategy and business development by transforming internal and external data, operational insights, and market intelligence into strategic business plans, market/service line assessments, and other executive-ready materials that shape planning and growth initiatives. Working across clinical, operational, and administrative areas, the Strategy Analyst delivers the analytical depth, research support, and project coordination required to advance enterprise priorities, accelerate growth opportunities, and enhance internal decision‑making.

What You Will Do

• Responsible for collecting and analyzing financial, market, and operational data from diverse data and information systems (e.g., Strata, Epic, external sources), and presenting findings to support Strategy and Planning priorities and decision-making.
• Support market, financial, and business opportunity analyses and data requests in collaboration with the Institute, Service Line, and Entity/Market Operator leaders.
• Support maintenance of Business Intelligence tools/reports, automated workflows and AI efficiencies as well as data integrity/quality for the department’s analytics platform.
• Cross-functional work between strategy & analytics and strategic business planning teams to include:
  • Strategy & Analytics: 
     ◦ Monitor national, regional, and local trends and creates, distributes, and/or presents intelligence reports to the relevant stakeholders, both within discrete projects and on a recurring basis. 
     ◦ Support developing models to uncover insights that help identify and analyze emerging market trends, patterns, and opportunities to further understand current performance and forecast potential future outcomes and scenarios. 
     ◦ Support development and presentation of market intelligence reports, dashboards, visualizations, etc., to advance easy-to-interpret strategy and business planning insights.
  • Strategic Business Planning: 
     ◦ Develop strategic business plans, financial analysis/models, and pro forma projections to justify strategic growth initiatives and capital investment
• Learn, maintain, and aid in the team’s training and adoption of various tools and methodologies necessary for strategy development and activation.

Additional Responsibilities

• Performs other duties as assigned.
• Complies with all policies and standards.
• For specific duties and responsibilities, refer to documentation provided by the department during orientation.
• Must abide by all requirements to safely and securely maintain Protected Health Information (PHI) for our patients. Annual training, the UH Code of Conduct and UH policies and procedures are in place to address appropriate use of PHI in the workplace.

Education

• Bachelor's Degree in Business, Health Administration, Finance, Accounting, Data Analytics or related (Required)
• Master's Degree in Health Administration (i.e. MHA/MHSA), Business Administration (MBA), Public Health (MPH) or related (Preferred)

Work Experience

• 2+ years experience within a hospital/healthcare system setting (preferably in a multi-site, matrixed organization) or clinical delivery environment (Required)
• Strong analytical skills with experience in data retrieval, database management, data visualization, forecasting, and modeling (Required proficiency)

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