Advanced Analytics Consultant

Health Care Service Corporation•Chicago, IL

3d•$76,600 - $138,500•Hybrid

About The Position

The Health Economics Team (HET) is seeking an Advanced Analytics Consultant to provide analytic support and consultancy for HCSC’s largest Commercial clients and advise internal senior-leader stakeholders on population health and insurance. The role combines strong technical skills—including SQL, R, Python, Tableau or Power BI, MS Azure, and Databricks—with healthcare industry knowledge across areas such as payor, provider, pharmacy, public health, and epidemiology. The consultant serves as a thought leader in external client engagements and internal projects, using a holistic understanding of business problems to identify efficient paths to desired outcomes. The position involves communicating with and presenting to C-suite stakeholders to improve their understanding of plan costs and health drivers, and collaborating internally to address them. In partnership with management, the consultant also helps scale and internally market impactful client engagements. As a technical subject matter expert, the consultant is expected to have experience designing and maintaining standard data layers, developing coding standards and documentation for organizational use cases, and troubleshooting analytic development challenges.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree and 5 years of experience in health care services, statistical analysis, insurance industry economics, or a related field; or a master’s degree in a related field and 3 years of relevant experience; or 9 years of relevant experience.
Understand and be highly proficient at querying a wide variety of internal and external data sources to obtain meaningful insights.
Demonstrate performance excellence in computer languages such as SQL, R, and Python.
Create dynamic, visually engaging dashboards using data visualization tools such as Tableau or Power BI.
Have strong business intelligence and understand how to take a business case from inception through customer or partner execution.
Have experience leading an analytic initiative to success.
Have excellent communication and presentation skills.
Be able to work independently and as part of a team.
Demonstrate performance excellence in championing initiatives and collaborating with multiple stakeholders.

Nice To Haves

Master’s degree and 3 years of experience in health care analytic services, statistical analysis, or insurance industry economics, including 1 year of experience analyzing medical claims data.
Experience with Databricks.
Experience with project management methodologies.
Healthcare industry experience, such as payor, provider, pharmacy, public health, or epidemiology.
Experience with version control or collaborative tools.

Responsibilities

Provide analytic support and consultancy for HCSC’s largest Commercial clients.
Advise internal senior-leader stakeholders on population health and insurance.
Use technical skills and healthcare industry knowledge to support and enhance client-facing engagements.
Lead as a thought partner in external client engagements and internal team projects by understanding business problems and working efficiently toward outcomes.
Communicate with and present to C-suite stakeholders to elevate understanding of plan costs and health drivers.
Collaborate internally to address plan cost and health drivers.
Partner with management to scale and internally market impactful client engagements.
Design and maintain standard data layers, develop coding standards and documentation, and troubleshoot analytic development challenges.