Senior Healthcare Analyst

Walgreens•Deerfield, IL

About The Position

We are seeking a highly skilled and multidisciplinary professional with deep expertise in health analytics. This role is ideal for someone passionate about transforming complex healthcare data into actionable insights and scalable solutions. In this role, you will design, build, and maintain scalable data pipelines and architectures that collect, process, and store large volumes of data. They work closely with data scientists, analysts, and software engineers to ensure data is reliable, accessible, and optimized for analytics and reporting. Your responsibilities often include working with databases, cloud platforms, ETL tools, and ensuring data quality, security, and performance. Founded in 1901, Walgreens (www.walgreens.com) proudly serves nearly 9 million customers and patients each day across its approximately 8,500 stores throughout the U.S. and Puerto Rico. Walgreens has approximately 220,000 team members, including nearly 90,000 healthcare service providers, and is committed to being the first choice for pharmacy, retail and health services, building trusted relationships that create healthier futures for customers, patients, team members and communities.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree and at least 5 years of experience or Master's degree or Associate of the Society of Actuaries credential with at least 3 years of experience or High School/GED and at least 8 years of experience. Experience should be in healthcare research or analytics.
Degree should be in a healthcare or analytics related field such as statistics, epidemiology, mathematics, economics, social or actuarial sciences.
At least 3 years of experience manipulating complex data sets.
Experience with advanced quantitative methods.
Experience contributing to small analytical projects from conceptualization through completion.
Intermediate level skill in Microsoft Excel (for example: using SUM function, setting borders, setting column width, inserting charts, using text wrap, sorting, setting headers and footers and/or print scaling).
Intermediate level skill in Microsoft PowerPoint (for example: applying a theme, formatting character spacing, inserting a picture, changing slide layout and theme colors, adding transitions, customizing slide numbers, changing chart style and/or formatting font).
Intermediate level experience with Python R and SAS programming.
Willing to travel up to 10% of the time for business purposes (within state and out of state).
Bachelor's degree and at least 5 years of experience -OR- Master's degree credential with at least 3 years of experience.
Experience should be in healthcare related research or analytics.
Degree should be in a healthcare or analytics related field such as computer science, statistics, epidemiology, mathematics. social sciences, or comparable field.

Responsibilities

Designs intermediate/complex level studies, models, reports, and analyses.
Pulls and stages complex data sets.
Analyzes data or develops models using intermediate/complex level techniques.
Participates in and may lead communications with clients (internal and external) and vendors.
Uses analytical tools such as SAS in diverse data analyses.
Uses IDC9/10, CPT4, NDC, lab data, and other clinical fields in diverse data analyses.
Utilize advanced analytical tools and programming languages such as SQL, SAS, Python, R, or similar, across varied data environments such as Azure/Databricks.
Design, implement, and support scalable, fault-tolerant clinical data products, including performant data access interfaces.
Experience presenting and reporting on analytical results to appropriate internal stakeholders including senior management
Lead the design and execution of intermediate to complex analytic studies, evaluations, predictive models, reports, dashboards, or data-driven solutions.
Effectively communicate analytical findings and insights to internal stakeholders, clients, and external vendors.