Advanced Analytics Senior Consultant - Behavioral Health Analytics

Elevance Health • Atlanta, GA

2d • Hybrid

About The Position

The Advanced Analytics Senior Consultant employs strategic perspectives with advanced analytical methods to identify new opportunities to improve the whole health of our members. This individual will create statistical models to predict, classify, quantify, and/or forecast business metrics; but will also be able to identify, define, evolve, solicit buy-in, and ultimately enable execution of the opportunities created by these models.

Requirements

• Requires Doctoral degree in Biostatistics, Statistics, Mathematics, Epidemiology or equivalent training and mastery and a minimum of 10 years experience in related health care analytics; or any combination of education and experience which would provide an equivalent background.

Nice To Haves

• Intermediate to advanced knowledge of math, probability, and algorithmic development in python or R.
• Intermediate to advanced knowledge of SQL.
• Familiarity with relational database environments such as MS SQL Server, Teradata, Oracle.
• Experience querying and developing models in Snowflake / Snowpark.
• Substantial analytical experience in healthcare industry preferred.
• Proven ability to design modeling studies and experience with data models, addressing data quality issues in study design, constructing robust and efficient analytical data sets strongly preferred.
• The ability to present meaningful results to a business audience, to participate collaboratively in a team tasked to produce complex analyses on a rigorous schedule, to communicate with strong written and verbal communication skills, and to present to large multi-disciplinary audiences regularly strongly preferred.

Responsibilities

• Proactively collaborates with business partners to determine identified population segments and develop actionable plans to enable the identification of patterns related to quality, use, cost and other variables.
• Publishes results and addresses constraints/limitations with high level business partners.
• Provides analytical insights to support business solution development based on quality, use, cost, and other key drivers.
• Contributes to the design of new programs/initiatives based on test/pilot outcomes.
• Develops targeting criteria or customer segmentation based on analytical insights, clinical inputs, product design, and operations considerations.
• Conducts in-depth research to address challenging issues in measuring outcomes.
• Develops original algorithms to innovative solutions to address trends and clinical outcomes.
• Prepares analytical data sets in support of modeling studies
• Build, test, and validate statistical models.
• Collaborates with other functional analytic areas to ensure product delivery.

Benefits

• We offer a range of market-competitive total rewards that include merit increases, paid holidays, Paid Time Off, and incentive bonus programs (unless covered by a collective bargaining agreement), medical, dental, vision, short and long term disability benefits, 401(k) +match, stock purchase plan, life insurance, wellness programs and financial education resources, to name a few.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: Ph.D. or professional degree
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees