Manager, Growth Analytics

Lantern•Dallas, TX

2d•Hybrid

About The Position

Lantern is seeking a Manager of Growth Analytics to own the analytical narrative behind its value proposition for specialty care. The role develops savings frameworks, models, and presentations that explain how Lantern generates savings, ensuring the methodology and commercial story are compelling, credible, and defensible. The position divides time roughly equally between building analytical methods and materials and presenting to clients, including health plans, employer benefit teams, and consultants. The manager leads savings methodology and analytics, sales enablement and pitch development, and client engagement. They collaborate with sales leadership and teams across Product, Data Engineering, BI, and Product Analytics, and manage and develop a Growth Analytics Analyst. The role is hybrid, with at least three days per week in Lantern’s Dallas, Texas office.

Requirements

At least 5 years in a highly analytical role with exposure to both modeling and external communication, such as consulting, actuarial work, healthcare analytics, or investment banking.
Ability to build rigorous, transparent, and auditable financial or actuarial models.
Experience developing executive-quality presentations and pitch materials.
Comfort presenting complex analytical concepts to non-technical stakeholders, including C-suite and benefits decision-makers.
Strong SQL skills and ability to independently access and validate data.
Outstanding written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to make a methodology deck compelling.

Nice To Haves

Direct experience in healthcare cost containment, specialty benefits, or surgical care analytics.
Familiarity with Databricks or SQL warehouses.
Background in actuarial science, health economics, or employer benefits consulting.
Prior experience in a client-facing analytics or sales engineering role.
Hands-on experience applying AI tools to accelerate analytical output and build systematic solutions that reduce manual, repetitive work.
Experience translating ambiguous business questions into structured analytical frameworks, particularly in a commercial or client-facing context.

Responsibilities

Understand Lantern’s savings measurement methodology from framework design through validation against realized performance.
Build and maintain actuarially sound models to quantify savings opportunities and calculate realized cost avoidance.
Develop segmentation analyses to identify where Lantern has the greatest impact across employer populations and benefit designs.
Monitor industry benchmarks, pricing standards, and competitive methodologies to keep Lantern’s approach current and best-in-class.
Create data-driven pitch decks and client materials that translate complex analytics into a clear commercial story.
Partner with the product organization, Director – Growth Analytics, Director – Health Economics, and sales leadership to tailor savings narratives for prospects based on claims, size, and benefit design.
Build reusable analytical assets, including templates, models, and case studies.
Identify and implement AI-powered tools and workflows to automate analytical processes, including data preparation and narrative generation.
Ensure materials reflect current methodology and are reviewed for accuracy before going to market.
Present Lantern’s savings methodology to employer benefit teams, consultants, and CFOs, serving as the analytical authority in client conversations.
Answer detailed technical questions about how savings are calculated, attributed, and validated.
Build credibility and confidence with sophisticated buyers who scrutinize the numbers.
Manage and develop a Growth Analytics Analyst, setting high standards and providing analytical coaching.
Partner with Data Engineering, BI, and Product Analytics teams to ensure data is available and correctly interpreted.