Sr Analytics Consultant - Health Economics

Health Care Service Corporation•Chicago, IL

1d•$84,400 - $152,300•Hybrid

About The Position

The Senior Analytics Consultant on HCSC’s Health Economics Team provides analytic support and consultancy for the company’s largest Commercial clients and advises internal senior-leader stakeholders on population health and insurance. The role combines strong technical skills in SQL, R, Python, and Tableau or Power BI with healthcare industry knowledge across areas such as payor, provider, pharmacy, public health, and epidemiology. The position leads external client engagements and internal team projects by understanding business problems and identifying efficient paths to outcomes. It communicates and presents to C-suite stakeholders to help them understand plan costs and health drivers, and collaborates internally to address those issues. In partnership with management, the role also helps scale and internally market impactful client engagements. As a technical subject matter expert, the consultant designs and maintains standard data layers, develops coding standards and documentation for organizational use cases, and troubleshoots challenges in analytic development. This is a hybrid role based in Chicago, Illinois, or Richardson, Texas. Relocation assistance and sponsorship are not offered. Flex employees are expected to work in the office at least three days per week, with management able to modify schedules for exigent circumstances.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree and 6 years of experience in health care services, statistical analysis, insurance industry economics, or a related field; or a master’s degree and 4 years; or a Ph.D. and 2 years; or 10 years of experience in those fields.
Expert understanding of and high proficiency in querying healthcare and related population data, including medical and pharmacy claims, behavioral health claims, health care management records, electronic medical records, provider databases, member or patient demographic data, and publicly available databases.
Strong analytical skills and proficiency in computer languages such as SQL, Python, and R.
Ability to create dynamic, visually engaging dashboards using Tableau or Power BI.
Strong business intelligence and ability to take a business case from inception through customer or partner execution.
Experience leading an analytic initiative to success.
Excellence in presenting to and influencing C-suite executives’ decision-making.
Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
Ability to champion initiatives and collaborate with multiple stakeholders.
Ability to work under pressure and deliver high-quality output to senior leadership within short timelines.

Nice To Haves

Master’s degree and 5 years of experience in health care services, statistical analysis, or insurance industry economics, including 3 years analyzing medical claims data.
Experience using techniques such as case-control studies, regression analyses, principal component analyses, clustering, propensity scoring, classification, and ROI calculation to produce actionable insights.
Experience with Databricks.
Experience with project management methodologies.
Experience with version control and collaborative tools.

Responsibilities

Provide analytic support and consultancy for HCSC’s largest Commercial clients.
Advise internal senior-leader stakeholders on population health and insurance.
Lead external client engagements and internal team projects.
Communicate with and present to C-suite stakeholders about plan costs and health drivers.
Collaborate internally to address plan cost and health drivers.
Help scale and internally market impactful client engagements in partnership with management.
Design and maintain standard data layers.
Develop coding standards and documentation for organizational use cases.
Troubleshoot challenges that arise during analytic development.
Deliver high-quality output to senior leadership within short timelines.