Quantitative Research Manager
About The Position
The Quantitative Research Manager joins athenahealth’s Research and Market Insights team to publish analysis and thought leadership using the company’s proprietary data assets. Research topics may include patient engagement, provider burnout, disease surveillance, and analyses of client practice operations, clinical behavior, and care-delivery best practices. The role involves developing research ideas, conducting analyses, and carrying research initiatives through to completion. The Research and Market Insights group develops original research and perspectives on complex healthcare industry issues, then translates them into materials for athenahealth’s commercial and product organizations. The manager uses healthcare data to create compelling data stories and works with internal stakeholders and Marketing to develop findings into content for external audiences.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s or master’s degree in a relevant quantitative field, such as Data Science, Economics, Statistics, Engineering, Computer Science, or Public Health.
- At least 3 years of professional experience in data analytics, data science, machine learning, or applied data science.
- Proven experience conducting exploratory data analyses with large, messy datasets.
- Strong writing skills for technical and nontechnical audiences.
- Strong skills in SQL, R, and/or Python.
- Experience in cloud-based environments.
- Ability to create presentations that influence nontechnical business audiences.
- Ability to manage relationships with technical and nontechnical stakeholders.
- Strong programming skills, familiarity with healthcare data, experience analyzing large quantities of data, and a passion for healthcare.
Nice To Haves
- Understanding of outpatient healthcare delivery, healthcare IT, research, and policy.
- Experience with AWS and Snowflake.
- Experience with claims and/or EHR databases.
Responsibilities
- Use SQL, Python, R, and Excel to analyze and visualize healthcare data.
- Develop, create, and deploy new de-identified research datasets for analysis.
- Partner with Marketing to turn research findings into presentations, data visualizations, reports, white papers, and other content for external audiences.
- Identify research topics by engaging with stakeholders and following academic journals, popular press, policy changes, and other trends.
- Build a trusted-advisor reputation across athenahealth and become an expert on its business processes and data assets.
- Work with internal stakeholders to inform the broader research strategy.
- Conduct research initiatives from idea through completion and prioritize work according to desired outcomes.
Benefits
- Health and financial benefits.
- Commuter support.
- Employee assistance programs.
- Tuition assistance.
- Employee resource groups.
- Collaborative workspaces; some offices welcome dogs.
- Flexibility to support work-life balance, with in-office collaboration and digital collaboration tools.
- Company-sponsored events, including book clubs, external speakers, and hackathons.
- Learning opportunities, an engaged team, and an inclusive work environment.
- Annual discretionary bonus plan, variable compensation plan, and equity plans, depending on role eligibility.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
