Advanced Analytics Consultant - Behavioral Health Data

Anticipated End Date:

2025-07-18

Position Title:

Advanced Analytics Consultant - Behavioral Health Data

Job Description:

Advanced Analytics Consultant - Behavioral Health Data

Location:  Seven Fields, PA; Atlanta, GA; Norfolk, VA; Indianapolis, IN; Cincinnati, OH; Boston, MA (preferred). This role requires associates to be in-office 1 - 2 days per week, fostering collaboration and connectivity, while providing flexibility to support productivity and work-life balance. This approach combines structured office engagement with the autonomy of virtual work, promoting a dynamic and adaptable workplace. Alternate locations may be considered.

PLEASE NOTE: This position is not eligible for current or future visa sponsorship.

A proud member of the Elevance Health family of companies, Carelon Behavioral Health, formerly Beacon Health Options, offers superior clinical mental health and substance use disorder management, a comprehensive employee assistance program, work/life support, specialty programs for autism and depression, and insightful analytics to improve the delivery of care.

The Advanced Analytics Consultant employs advanced analytics to gain critical insights into member behavior drivers and preferences, product/program concepts and value propositions, operational effectiveness, and efficiencies, and client-specific health gaps and needs. Consults business leaders and internal partners to apply the insights to test and drive product innovation and enhancement, to target the right members for the right service, measure program outcomes and demonstrate value, help win and retain clients, and support information-based strategic decision-making.

How you will make an impact:

• ​Collecting and analyzing data related to mental health and substance use to understand trends, improve care, and inform policy decisions.
• Provides analytical insights to support business solution development based on quality, use, cost, and other key drivers.
• Develops and refines analysis templates for problem diagnosis and opportunities assessment.
• Trend analytics to identify patterns and predict future trends related to patient care, healthcare costs, and public health.
• Analyzing health data to understand past trends, predict future trends, and make informed decisions to improve patient outcomes and optimize resource allocation. 
• Predictive models that tap into large datasets to identify high-risk individuals enable providers to proactively reach out to at-risk patients and families — getting ahead of behavioral health needs before they arise
• Develops predictive models and other tools that help target the right members.
• Develops methodology to measure clinical, utilization, and financial outcomes of a program/initiative.
• Conducts in-depth research to address challenging issues in measuring outcomes.
• Leads applied research projects.
• Authors white papers, presents at industry conferences, and submits journal publications.
• Addresses the limitation of certain data sources and evaluates the incremental value of new data sources.

Minimum Requirements:

• Requires MS, MA, or PhD with concentration in a quantitative discipline such as Mathematics, Statistics, Economics, Epidemiology, Engineering, Computer Science or Operations Research and a minimum of 5 years experience in related health care analytics; or any combination of education and experience which would provide an equivalent background.

Preferred Skills, Capabilities, and Experiences:

• The ability to present meaningful results to a business audience and to participate collaboratively in a team tasked to produce complex analyses.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills and an aptitude for presenting to large multi-disciplinary audiences strongly preferred.
• Substantial analytical experience in the healthcare industry preferred.
• Cost of care analysis knowledge highly preferred.
• Advanced SQL & SAS skills
• Oracle Exadata experience preferred.
• Proficiency with MS Office products.
• Experience analyzing data related to social and behavioral health factors/social determinants of health strongly preferred, particularly in the areas of mental health, behavioral health, and substance use disorders.
• Additional skills for success are Python, Informatica, Tableau, Snowflake and Power BI.
• AI/ML experience will be helpful.

Job Level:

Non-Management Exempt

Workshift:

1st Shift (United States of America)

Job Family:

RDA > Reporting & Data Analysis

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