Data Analytics Analyst

Walgreens • Deerfield, IL

2d

About The Position

Collaborates with the account teams and contracting to identify and isolate variances resulting from over/under payment practices and factoring these into actual-to-expected results. Assists in the development of timely, innovative, objective analysis which lead to fact-based solutions for strategic business issues. Provides customer service to internal and external customers, including meeting quality standards for services, and evaluation of customer satisfaction.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree OR High School Diploma/GED and at least 3 years of experience in Finance, Economics, Accounting, Math, Business, Actuarial Science, or Computer Science.
• Experience collaborating with internal and external resources to assist in the development of strategies and project plans that meet department goals within budget and established timelines.
• Experience establishing and maintaining key relationships with internal (peers, business partners and leadership) and external (business community, clients and vendors) within a matrix organization to ensure quality standards for service.
• Experience developing ways of accomplishing goals with little or no supervision, depending upon oneself to resolve issues to ensure completed objectives and determining when escalation of issues is necessary.
• Experience using time management skills such as prioritizing/organizing and tracking details and meeting deadlines of multiple projects with varying completion dates.
• Experience in diagnosing, isolating, and resolving complex issues and recommending and implementing strategies to resolve problems.
• Experience with analyzing and reporting data in order to identify issues, trends, or exceptions to drive improvement of results and find solutions.
• Advanced level skill in Microsoft Excel (for example: using AVERAGE function, merging and centering cells, printing centered page and/or creating a pivot table).
• Advanced level skill in Microsoft PowerPoint (for example: changing picture styles, customizing animation and/or setting automatic slide timings).
• Advanced level skill in Microsoft Word (for example: adding developer tab, creating a macro, formatting table style, inserting comments and/or creating a mail merge).
• Willing to travel up to 10% of the time for business purposes (within state and out of state).

Nice To Haves

• Master’s Degree Bachelor’s Degree in Statistics, Engineering, Computer Science or Information Systems.
• Knowledge of advanced coding languages (e.g. SAS, SQL, C++, etc.).
• Experience with system administration (e.g. PROS, Vendavo, Vistaar, Salesforce.com, SharePoint, Wikis, etc.).
• Experience with business intelligence tools in support of data analytics (e.g. Business Objects, Cognos, Tableau, PROS, etc).
• Experience with learn coaching, mentoring, and training staff.
• Knowledge of Pharmacy, Pharmaceutical Benefit Manager, Benefit Consultancy, or Managed Care company.
• Experience with working with pharmacy data at a retail pharmacy, Pharmaceutical Benefit Manager, benefit consultancy, or managed care company.
• Knowledge of pharmaceutical industry pricing.
• Experience with project management (for example: planning, organizing, and managing resources to bring about the successful completion of specific project goals and objectives).
• Knowledge of systems such as Remedy and GIS.
• Experience with data extraction, data mining, data acquisition, data profiling, and data warehouse management.
• Experience in a data warehouse/business intelligence/decision support systems environment or IT experience.
• Knowledge of statistical concepts and data mining techniques.

Responsibilities

• Assists in the development and the utilization of innovative data visual presentation strategies to ensure data is conveyed in meaningful and interpretive formats for all audience levels.
• Assists in the development and implementation of innovative analytical and/or statistical methodologies and supporting tools for evaluating Company processes, business problems, and/or ROI of products and services.
• Collaborates with the account teams and contracting to identify and isolate variances resulting from over/under payment practices and factoring these into actual-to-expected results.
• Assists in the development and maintenance of an automated process to identify data and process integrity issues.
• Provides leadership with detailed recommendation for issue resolution.
• Identifies both up and down stream impact of identified issues and fully communicates with any impacted parties.
• Assist in the development of timely, innovative, objective analysis which leads to fact-based solutions for strategic business issues.
• Identifies, formulates, and drives problem definition and hypothesis formulation as it relates to the specific business environment.
• Synthesizes externally syndicated data with internal experience.
• Prepares standard and ad hoc management reports and presentations for projects.
• Utilizes query based tools to create and run queries used for data mining and analytics to support other job responsibilities and ad hoc projects.
• Performs specific tasks identified in the compliance monitoring program to include evaluation of definitions, price increase maintenance and network identification.
• Provides customer service to internal and external customers, including meeting quality standards for services, and evaluation of customer satisfaction.
• Works cross functionally with peers in Sales, Finance, Law, Contract Development, and Contract Operations.

Benefits

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What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: Associate degree