Principal Data Intelligence Analyst (Pharmacy Lead) - Remote

Cedars-Sinai•Los Angeles, CA

10d•$143,000 - $208,500•Remote

About The Position

Cedars-Sinai is leveraging AI technology to improve patient care, efficiency, scientific discovery, and staff wellbeing. The organization has been recognized for its Healthtech excellence, achieving Level 10 certification from the "CHIME Digital Health Most Wired" program. This role is for a Principal Data Intelligence Analyst with a focus on Pharmacy operations, serving as a strategic partner and primary analytics resource for pharmacy clients, leaders, clinicians, and staff. The position involves understanding pharmacy operations, translating business requirements into actionable insights, and delivering high-value reporting and analytics solutions. The ideal candidate will have strong pharmacy domain expertise, stakeholder engagement skills, and experience in requirements gathering and delivering analytics solutions, with technical experience in SQL, Python, AI, and Epic Willow being beneficial.

Requirements

Ten (10) plus years of experience in pharmacy analytics, pharmacy operations, healthcare analytics, business analysis, data analysis, client support, or a related field.
Demonstrated experience supporting pharmacy clients, pharmacy leaders, pharmacists, clinicians, or healthcare operations teams.
Strong understanding of pharmacy workflows, processes, performance measures, and operational challenges.
Experience facilitating requirements-gathering sessions, performance-improvement initiatives, reporting projects, or quantitative analyses.
Demonstrated ability to manage the full analytics delivery lifecycle, including business and clinical understanding, requirements documentation, data analysis, testing, deployment, training, and end-user support.
Ability to communicate effectively with pharmacy stakeholders and translate between business needs and technical requirements.
Bachelor’s Degree in Pharmacy, Health Informatics, Computer Science, Information Technology, Business Analytics, Healthcare Administration, or a related field.

Nice To Haves

Technical experience with SQL, Python, artificial intelligence, and Epic Willow is beneficial.
A PharmD, master’s degree, pharmacy informatics experience, or equivalent combination of education and experience is preferred.
Prefer someone living locally or willing to relocate to LA area, but open to remote in Approved States: Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Minnesota, Nevada, Oregon, Texas

Responsibilities

Serve as a trusted advisor and primary point of contact for pharmacy clients, operational leaders, pharmacists, clinicians, and other end users.
Lead client engagement, discovery sessions, and consensus-building activities to understand pharmacy reporting and analytics needs.
Translate pharmacy workflows, operational challenges, and business questions into clear data, reporting, and analytics requirements.
Support pharmacy operations through analysis of medication utilization, dispensing, inventory, formulary management, medication access, clinical services, financial performance, quality, and efficiency measures.
Lead strategic pharmacy analytics and reporting projects from initial concept through requirements documentation, development, testing, deployment, training, and ongoing support.
Collaborate with report developers, data engineers, IT teams, pharmacy leaders, and other cross-functional partners to deliver reliable and usable solutions.
Provide quality assurance, data validation, reconciliation, issue investigation, and end-user support for pharmacy reports and dashboards.
Use data from internal and external sources to analyze complex pharmacy and operational problems and identify opportunities for improvement.
Provide subject matter expertise on pharmacy reporting systems, tools, workflows, and performance measures.
Mentor peers and demonstrate leadership on complex initiatives as needed.