Sr. Director, Insurance Data Analytics

Jackson Healthcare • Alpharetta, GA

8h • Hybrid

About The Position

Jackson Healthcare and its family of companies provide healthcare systems, hospitals, and medical facilities with the skilled labor and technologies needed to deliver high-quality patient care. Headquartered in metro Atlanta, the company employs over 2,600 associates and utilizes over 20,000 clinician providers across the U.S. Jackson Healthcare has established a Georgia-based captive insurance program, a strategic investment at the core of its enterprise risk financing structure. This role is a hands-on leadership position within a lean, high-impact department, responsible for owning the enterprise insurance and analytics function end-to-end. The Senior Director will partner with the Chief Risk Officer (CRO) and external advisors to guide the growth, evolution, and value maximization of the captive insurance program. The position involves significant exposure to senior leadership and offers the opportunity to become a strategic advisor to the business. The ideal candidate possesses deep technical expertise in insurance, captives, and analytics, combined with the curiosity, judgment, and communication skills to apply this expertise effectively at the executive level.

Requirements

• Demonstrated experience with sophisticated enterprise insurance programs, including direct captive insurance involvement.
• Strong insurance analytics foundation: actuarial concepts, loss reserving, exposure analysis, data validation, and translating complex results into business decisions.
• Fluency in a Risk Management Information System (RMIS); direct experience with Origami Risk is a significant advantage.
• Track record of working effectively with brokers, actuaries, carriers, captive managers, and regulators.
• Proven ability to communicate complex insurance and risk concepts to non-technical audiences, including senior executives.
• Demonstrated success leading or significantly contributing to insurance audit processes (workers’ compensation, medical malpractice, or equivalent).
• Bachelor’s degree in Risk Management, Finance, Business, or a related field.
• Minimum 10+ years of progressive insurance, captive, or risk management experience.

Nice To Haves

• Advanced degree (MBA, CPCU, ARM).
• Familiarity with Power BI or comparable analytics and visualization platforms.
• Experience supporting M&A due diligence or integration from a risk and insurance perspective.
• Healthcare industry background.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the internal owner and day-to-day liaison with the external captive manager, captive counsel, and insurance broker, ensuring alignment and coordinated efforts.
• Define and evolve the strategic direction of the captive, including growth opportunities, new lines of coverage, and program enhancements, in collaboration with the CRO and external advisors.
• Oversee captive governance, compliance, regulatory filings, and financial reporting, ensuring adherence to domicile requirements.
• Develop and maintain business plans, underwriting guidelines, and investment policies; prepare materials for captive board and executive committee meetings.
• Identify opportunities to expand captive utilization across the enterprise and enhance the flexibility of the overall insurance program.
• Partner with the Insurance Program Operations direct report on enterprise-wide insurance renewals, providing strategic guidance and market perspective.
• Challenge the status quo in renewal strategy, exploring innovative solutions and improvements.
• Manage broker, carrier, and actuary relationships at a senior level, serving as the point of accountability for program structure, coverage decisions, and risk transfer strategy.
• Administer enterprise-wide Total Cost of Risk (TCOR) budgeting and cost allocation across commercial and captive premiums.
• Oversee actuarial workflows, including exposure submissions, claims data, report interpretation, and communicating results to stakeholders.
• Lead medical malpractice and workers’ compensation audit processes, including data validation, variance resolution, and coordination with accounting and brokers.
• Serve as the senior business owner for the Risk Management Information System (RMIS), ensuring data integrity, system functionality, user access, and vendor partnership.
• Lead the evolution of RMIS and other data platforms to better serve captive, analytics, and reporting functions.
• Develop and maintain dashboards, forecasting tools, and reporting frameworks for senior leadership and captive boards.
• Champion AI and emerging technology for the analytics function.
• Build and maintain partnerships with internal data and IT teams to integrate risk analytics into the broader enterprise data environment.
• Lead, mentor, and develop two direct reports, focusing on their growth, capability, and confidence.
• Foster a collaborative, intellectually curious team culture aligned with company values.
• Translate complex insurance, captive, and actuarial concepts into clear, decision-ready language for executives.
• Develop and deliver executive-level presentations for leadership reviews.
• Serve as a trusted resource and escalation point for time-sensitive risk issues, regulatory questions, and coverage decisions.
• Grow into a strategic advisor role with C-suite exposure.

Benefits

• Jackson Healthcare has recently established a Georgia-based captive insurance program — a significant strategic investment that now sits at the heart of our enterprise risk financing structure.
• This is a hands-on leadership role in a lean, high-impact department.
• You will own the enterprise insurance and analytics function end-to-end.
• You will lead and developing two direct reports.
• You will work closely with the CRO, who remains actively engaged in strategy and leadership; this is a collaborative environment, not a solo assignment.
• You will have significant exposure to senior leadership and the opportunity to grow into a genuine strategic advisor to the business.
• We’re always looking to add new talent to our teams.
• We value diverse professionals at all levels and across multiple disciplines and areas of expertise, who have strong leadership skills, align with our culture, and are committed to excellence.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Number of Employees: 501-1,000 employees