Associate Principal, Insights & Analytics

About Definitive Healthcare: 

At Definitive Healthcare (NASDAQ: DH), we’re passionate about turning data, analytics, and expertise into meaningful intelligence that helps our customers achieve success and shape the future of healthcare. We empower them to uncover the right markets, opportunities, and people—paving the way for smarter decisions and greater impact. 

We’re headquartered in Framingham, Massachusetts, but we have 3 office locations globally, including locations in Sweden, and India. We’ve grown significantly since our founding in 2011 and have expanded our global client base to 2,400+.  

We’re also a great place to work. In 2024, we brought home a number of awards including Built In’s 100 Best Places to Work in Boston, a Stevie Bronze Award for Great Employers, and we were recognized as a Great Place to Work in India. 

We foster a collaborative, inclusive culture where diverse perspectives drive innovation. Through programs like DefinitiveCares and our employee-led affinity groups we strive to promote connection, education, and inclusion. 

 

Position Summary 

This role functions as the analytical and clinical translation layer between client facing teams and the Analytics function. The individual is accountable for ensuring that client objectives are converted into precise, executable analytical specifications and that analytical outputs are translated back into accurate, decision ready client deliverables. 

The position requires deep fluency in medical claims data, strong disease area understanding, and the ability to operate with authority across Analytics, Delivery, and client stakeholders. This is not a coordination role. It is quality control, specification of ownership, and analytical interpretation role. 

The successful candidate will act as the primary steward of analytical intent, ensuring fidelity between client needs, analytical design, and delivered insights. 

 

Core Responsibilities 

Analytical Translation and Specification Ownership 

• Own the end-to-end translation of client questions into detailed analytical specifications at the claims code level, including ICD, CPT, HCPCS, NDC, place of service, provider taxonomy, and temporal logic 

• Create and maintain dynamic specification documents that evolve with client feedback, analytical discovery, and data constraints 

• Serve as the primary point of contact for the Analytics function, ensuring clarity of intent, methodological rigor, and correct interpretation of requirements prior to coding 

• Proactively identify ambiguities, edge cases, and data limitations before analytical execution begins 

Analytical Quality Control and Validation 

• Act as the final quality control checkpoint between Analytics output and client delivery 

• Validate cohort definitions, patient journeys, metrics, and assumptions for clinical plausibility and analytical correctness 

• Ensure reproducibility, traceability, and defensibility of analytical logic 

• Identify and resolve discrepancies between expected and observed results 

Client Facing Interpretation and Delivery 

• Translate analytical output into clear, accurate, and client ready materials including PowerPoint, Excel, and written documentation 

• Communicate analytical findings with appropriate nuance, avoiding over interpretation while preserving strategic relevance 

• Support client discussions by explaining methodology, assumptions, and limitations in clear, confident language 

Disease Area Research and Clinical Contextualization 

• Conduct self-directed research into disease states relevant to client engagements 

• Document and apply understanding of epidemiology, patient demographics, symptomology, comorbidities, diagnostic pathways, treatments, and procedures 

• Integrate clinical con