Healthcare Business Intelligence & Analytics Lead

Nest Health•New Orleans, LA

3d•Hybrid

About The Position

The Business Intelligence & Analytics Lead will own and drive the analytics and BI function, with a special focus on implementing AI-powered analytics. This individual will be responsible for developing advanced analytics, building and optimizing dashboards, and leveraging AI to deliver actionable insights for clinical, operational, and executive stakeholders. The Business Intelligence & Analytics Lead partners closely with the Data Engineering team, but is focused on analytics, reporting, business intelligence, and the application of AI, not inclusive of data infrastructure.

Requirements

5+ years in business intelligence, analytics, data product management, or analytics consulting owning a BI product
Experience building and owning dashboards, reports, scorecards, or recurring analytics products.
Strong SQL and analytical problem-solving skills.
Experience with BI tools such as Power BI, Tableau, Looker, Sigma, Excel, or similar platforms.
Experience in healthcare, value-based care, population health, payer/provider operations, clinical operations, or another regulated environment.
Ability to define metrics, validate data, document logic, and communicate insights clearly.
Strong stakeholder management skills with technical and non-technical audiences.
Demonstrated ability to simplify complex reporting environments and build scalable analytics practices.

Nice To Haves

Experience with Snowflake, dbt, Salesforce, Azure, or modern cloud analytics environments.
Familiarity with healthcare data domains such as eligibility, attribution, encounters, scheduling, outreach, claims, care gaps, quality, utilization, SDOH, or payer performance.
Experience creating metric catalogs, reporting inventories, governance processes, or analytics operating models.
Familiarity with AI-enabled analytics, natural language querying, or self-service tools.
Understanding of HIPAA-aligned data practices and healthcare reporting expectations.

Responsibilities

Own the BI and analytics roadmap across executive, operational, clinical, financial, and value-based care reporting.
Partner with leaders to define the metrics, dashboards, and analyses needed to run the business.
Design and maintain trusted analytics products that are clear, consistent, role-based, and decision-oriented.
Set standards for metric definitions, reporting quality, documentation, ownership, and lifecycle management.
Simplify reporting by consolidating overlapping reports and improving request prioritization.
Build and maintain dashboards, recurring reports, scorecards, and analytics tools across the organization.
Monitor adoption, gather feedback, and improve analytics products after launch.
Partner with Data Engineering and IT to keep data sources, semantic models, and reporting layers accurate, secure, and scalable.
Support AI-enabled and self-service analytics tools where they improve speed, access, or decision quality.
Promote data literacy so teams understand, trust, and use analytics effectively.