Senior Utilization Strategy Consultant

Securian Financial • Saint Paul, MN

10d • $91,700 - $169,600 • Hybrid

About The Position

The Senior Utilization Strategy Consultant leads and advances utilization strategy for Supplemental Health products. This strategic role builds and evolves a capability focused on understanding utilization patterns, turning insights into actionable recommendations, and informing key business decisions. The role partners across the organization to shape strategies that balance customer value, market competitiveness, and financial performance in support of the long-term growth and sustainability of the Supplemental Health business.

The consultant leads utilization strategy and develops the framework, targets, metrics, governance, reporting, and decision-making processes needed to apply utilization activities consistently. They support business decisions by evaluating how product, service, and operational choices affect utilization, customer value, and financial outcomes, and by communicating recommendations to stakeholders.

Working with Reporting & Analytics and other business partners, the consultant supports performance monitoring, evaluates interventions, investigates utilization patterns and claims trends, and develops predictive and diagnostic analyses. The role translates complex findings into actionable insights for executive, operational, and cross-functional audiences; ensures data is suitable for decision-making; and identifies opportunities to improve analytical capabilities through automation, data integration, and scalable reporting solutions.

The position uses a hybrid work arrangement. Associates within a 90-minute commuting distance work in the office three days each week, with flexibility for business and personal schedules. The internal Securian Financial job title is Reporting & Analytics Sr. Consultant.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in actuarial science, mathematics, statistics, data analytics, finance, economics, or a related quantitative field, or equivalent experience.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, including the ability to work with complex data, evaluate model or study results, and identify meaningful business insights.
• Strong written, oral, and interpersonal communication skills, including the ability to explain analytical findings to technical and nontechnical audiences.
• Ability to influence decision-making and build consensus across multiple business functions.
• Experience developing analytical tools, reports, dashboards, or repeatable data processes, and ability to learn and apply new technical tools as business needs evolve.
• High degree of initiative and ability to define, organize, and complete work independently while collaborating effectively across teams.
• Strong documentation and organizational skills, with attention to detail, data quality, and controls.
• Adaptability in a rapidly changing environment and ability to manage multiple priorities.

Nice To Haves

• Building consensus
• Collaboration
• Data-driven decision making
• Data reporting
• Detail-oriented
• Verbal communications
• Working collaboratively

Responsibilities

• Lead utilization strategy and coordinate cross-functional efforts to balance customer value, market competitiveness, and financial outcomes.
• Develop and maintain a comprehensive utilization framework for Supplemental Health products.
• Establish performance targets and success metrics for utilization strategic initiatives.
• Establish governance, reporting, and decision-making processes to support consistent utilization activities across the organization.
• Recommend actions based on customer, financial, and operational impacts.
• Partner with cross-functional stakeholders to evaluate how product, service, and operational decisions affect utilization, customer value, and financial outcomes.
• Communicate findings and actionable recommendations clearly to stakeholders.
• Partner with business leaders to prioritize strategic utilization opportunities based on expected value, feasibility, and strategic alignment.
• Collaborate with the Reporting & Analytics team to design and maintain reporting for monitoring utilization performance, evaluating intervention effectiveness, and supporting data-driven decisions.
• Identify, prioritize, and evaluate hypotheses about emerging utilization patterns and claims trends; coordinate with business partners to validate findings and quantify impacts.
• Develop predictive and diagnostic analyses to proactively identify utilization risks and opportunities.
• Translate complex analytical results into concise, actionable insights for executive, operational, and cross-functional audiences.
• Ensure data is accurate, consistent, and fit for decision-making through validation and governance practices.
• Identify opportunities to enhance analytical capabilities through automation, improved data integration, and scalable reporting solutions.

Benefits

• Flexible paid time off, with additional PTO based on length of service.
• Flexible leave programs for parental leave, caregiving, bereavement, and military leave.
• Nine company-paid holidays.
• Company-funded pension plan.
• 401(k) retirement plan with a company contribution tied to company performance, up to 10% of eligible earnings and a target of 5%.
• Medical, dental, and vision coverage for associates and eligible family members, effective from the first day of employment.
• Paid volunteer time, company-sponsored volunteer events, and a dollar-for-dollar matching gift program.
• Associate Resource Groups supporting connection and development.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior