Manager, Growth Analytics

Lantern•Dallas, TX

9h•Hybrid

About The Position

Lantern is a specialty care platform that partners with employers and health plans to deliver measurable savings on surgical and specialty care. The Growth Analytics team connects data and commercial strategy by building the analytical foundation for sales and demonstrating Lantern’s value to clients. The Manager of Growth Analytics owns the analytical narrative behind Lantern’s value proposition. This person develops savings frameworks, models, and presentations, ensuring the methodology and client-facing story are compelling, credible, and defensible. The role is split approximately equally between analytical and sales-enablement work and client-facing engagement. It is hybrid, with at least three days per week in Lantern’s Dallas, Texas office. The manager works closely with sales leadership, product, health economics, and data teams; presents Lantern’s savings approach to employers, health plans, consultants, and CFOs; and manages and develops a Growth Analytics Analyst. The role also identifies opportunities to use AI-powered tools and workflows to reduce manual analytical work.

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, investment banking, or a similar field.
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 presentation 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 that quantify savings opportunity 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 effective.
Create data-driven pitch decks and client materials that translate complex analytics into a clear commercial story.
Partner with product, growth analytics, health economics, and sales leadership to tailor savings narratives for prospects using their 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 client and sales materials reflect current methodology and are reviewed for accuracy before distribution.
Present Lantern’s savings methodology in client-facing conversations with employer benefit teams, consultants, and CFOs.
Answer detailed questions about how savings are calculated, attributed, and validated, building credibility with sophisticated buyers.
Manage and develop the 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.