Contractor (Statistical Healthcare Data Analyst), (Remote, CA & US)

Policy Reporter•Morrisville, NC

4h•Remote

About The Position

Policy Reporter offers insights products and consulting services to enhance market access strategies and patient support initiatives by tracking payer policies in near real time. This ensures that pharmaceutical, medical device, and diagnostics manufacturers, academic institutions, and provider groups have up-to-date data and evidence-based guidance to help patients access therapies. The Data Analysis team plays a critical role in maintaining and enhancing the company’s data assets, applying advanced statistical methods and data engineering practices to analyze healthcare and population data, ensuring accuracy, integrity, and actionable insights. They collaborate cross-functionally with Product, Research, Engineering, Sales, and Customer Success to shape strategic initiatives and deliver custom analytics that drive smarter decisions, supporting Policy Reporter’s mission to improve patient access to healthcare through timely, data-driven intelligence. This contract position is for a Statistical Healthcare Data Analyst, assisting the Data Analysis Team Lead. The role involves supporting the development and maintenance of critical healthcare datasets, including Covered Lives and payer mapping tools. Responsibilities include data mining, cleanup, and analysis of healthcare and population data to drive insights and improve product delivery. The analyst will collaborate with internal teams to respond to client requests, onboard new users, and contribute to internal initiatives that enhance data accuracy and operational efficiency. This role also includes researching industry trends, summarizing complex healthcare documents, and supporting the development of pharmacy-related datasets. The ideal candidate should be able to commit between 20 - 40 hours per week.

Requirements

At least a Bachelor's degree in Information Management, Computer Science, Math, Statistics, or Analytics-focused discipline.
4+ Years' experience in similar roles.
At least 3 years’ experience using R and SQL for data processing and analysis.
Expert English language skills (both written and verbal).
Ability to communicate complex subjects and ideas clearly.
Ability to work independently and make consistent data decisions under ambiguity.
Meticulous attention to detail and the ability to maintain focus.

Nice To Haves

U.S. Healthcare knowledge is an asset.
Intimate familiarity with Microsoft Office Suite is an asset.

Responsibilities

Advanced data collection, cleanup, and analysis of healthcare and population data.
Act as a subject matter expert on data sets managed by the Data Analysis (DA) team.
Utilize domain-specific knowledge to stay apprised of shifting payer landscape to ensure Policy Reporter’s (PR) data remains accurate and up to date.
Promote data democratization across the organization by building SQL queries and BI dashboards that detail customer utilization and report regularly to internal teams and leadership.
Take lead on new initiatives including data mining and writing R scripts to expedite DA tasks.
Build and maintain BI dashboards in Amazon Quick Sight.
Represent the DA team and take lead on analytics on interdepartmental projects, with support from team lead.
Contribute to the presentation of deliverables to clients, both in written and verbal form.
Use statistical and analytical knowledge to improve the quality of client deliverables.
Scope, map out and document processes for new and recurring DA work.
Build key data sets to enable operational and exploratory analysis.
Work with Sales, Research, Product & Engineering Teams to improve the utility of the information stored within our database.
Proactively look for ways to improve the quality of our datasets.
Collaborate with internal teams to set standards for data processes within the company.
Communicate narratives with data to many audiences, ranging from product managers to technical leads.
Work with the Engineering team to support process improvements by acting as the DA subject matter expert.