Sr Hospital Analyst

UT Southwestern Medical Center • Dallas, TX

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About The Position

Serves as a senior analytical subject matter expert supporting Hospital and Health System leadership through advanced data analysis, reporting, and operational performance initiatives. Partners with operational, clinical, and administrative leaders to deliver data-driven insights that support strategic and operational decision making. Leads complex analytics projects, develops innovative reporting solutions, and translates data into actionable recommendations. Provides technical leadership and mentorship to analysts and contributes to the advancement of reporting standards, analytics capabilities, and data governance practices across the organization.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration, Computer Science, Public Health, Healthcare Administration, Healthcare Informatics, Nursing, Statistics, Data Science, or other relevant field.
• 6 years of data analysis experience in a healthcare setting.
• 3 years of experience supporting hospital operations, clinical operations, operational performance initiatives, or healthcare strategy initiatives.
• Demonstrated proficiency in statistical and data visualization tools similar to, but not limited to, advanced Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Power BI, Tableau, SQL Server, SAS, Python, and/or R.
• Demonstrated experience extracting and analyzing data using standard data management practices.
• Demonstrated experience leading complex analytics projects and presenting findings to operational and executive stakeholders.

Nice To Haves

• Master's Degree in Business Administration, Computer Science, Public Health, Healthcare Administration, Healthcare Informatics, Nursing, Data Science, Statistics, or other relevant field.
• Experience with inpatient operations and workflows.
• Experience with electronic health records and healthcare data warehouses.

Responsibilities

• Serves as a senior analytics partner to hospital directors, physicians, operational leaders, and other stakeholders by providing data-driven insights and recommendations to support strategic and operational decision making.
• Participates in planning discussions and strategic initiatives by identifying trends, opportunities, and operational performance opportunities.
• Translates complex analytical findings into actionable recommendations for operational and strategic priorities.
• Leads complex reporting and data analytics projects supporting Hospital leadership.
• Partners with stakeholders to define project requirements, scope, objectives, and deliverables.
• Serves as a primary analytics resource for assigned initiatives and provides consultation on reporting design, metric development, and analytical approaches.
• Builds and maintains positive working relationships with leadership, collaborators, and other key stakeholders.
• Serves as the lead analytics partner for assigned hospital committees, operational workgroups, and strategic initiatives by developing analyses, monitoring performance metrics, identifying opportunities, and supporting leadership decision making.
• Functions as the primary analytical resource for designated organizational priorities and operational initiatives.
• Designs and performs advanced data analysis and engages in advanced analytics activities including developing analytical reports and dashboards, automating existing tools, and designing data models in support of Hospital leadership initiatives.
• Develops creative and innovative reporting solutions supporting Hospital operations, operational excellence efforts, performance initiatives, and strategic priorities.
• Identifies gaps, patterns, and trends within data and develops recommendations that support informed decision making.
• Serves as a subject matter expert for Hospital reporting platforms, databases, metrics, and business rules.
• Collaborates with operational and clinical stakeholders in designing and validating new metrics and key performance indicators.
• Supports data governance activities by documenting business requirements, validating data integrity, and maintaining approved business definitions and standards.
• Leads the collection, validation, analysis, and visualization of clinical and operational data.
• Independently manages multiple analytics projects and priorities.
• Writes and implements data queries, develops recommendations for reporting enhancements, and supports routine reporting for operational, director-level, and executive-level meetings.
• Provides technical leadership, guidance, and mentorship to analysts and business partners on reporting tools, analytical methodologies, metric interpretation, and best practices.
• Assists with onboarding and knowledge transfer activities and promotes opportunities for data-driven decision making throughout the organization.
• Demonstrates continuous performance improvement in targeted areas of responsibility in alignment with the overall Health System performance goals and responsibilities.
• Supports achievement of operational excellence initiatives, as well as system-wide goals and objectives.
• Participates in professional development training on technical, clinical, operational, or leadership subject areas.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Benefits

• PPO medical plan, available day one at no cost for full-time employee-only coverage
• 100%25 coverage for preventive healthcare-no copay
• Paid Time Off, available day one
• Retirement Programs through the Teacher Retirement System of Texas (TRS)
• Paid Parental Leave Benefit
• Wellness programs
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) Qualified Employer

What This Job Offers

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