Strategy Analyst - Population Health

Highmark Health • Pittsburgh, PA

1d • Hybrid

About The Position

Support leadership of Highmark, or its affiliates with a range of strategy activities essential to Highmark's membership and margin goals. Strategy Analysts provide analytical/strategic-thinking and leadership support that enables project teams to: 1) isolate business issues; 2) help design and execute analytics for studying business issues (market research, scenario planning, forecasting, market share, profitability, etc.); 3) develop technical content (competitive intelligence, market trend analysis); 4) support development of formal recommendations to senior levels of Highmark leadership; 5) help create document components (go-to-market or operational strategies, etc.) that inform critical strategic issues and decisions. This role supports the Medicaid line of business within the population health analytics team. This role is looking for someone who has a clinical or population health healthcare knowledge. This is a hybrid based role in Pittsburgh, PA - T, W, Th onsite.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Business, Economics, Engineering or Life Sciences or other related degree
• Six years of relevant experience in lieu of Bachelor's Degree
• 3-5 years of relevant, progressive experience in strategy / management consulting firms or internal strategy groups of healthcare and related companies
• Broad application of principles, theories, and concepts in strategic thinking, plus working knowledge of other related fields
• Strong PC application Skills (MS Office including PowerPoint and Excel)
• Knowledge of healthcare industry trends and challenges

Nice To Haves

• Master’s Degree in Business, Health, Economics or other related degree
• Experience in Health Insurance operations and technology
• Experience in operational improvement
• Clinical or population health healthcare knowledge

Responsibilities

• Work with business/ market owners to identify key business issues, articulate problem, apply right analytical framework, develop solution and recommendations, represent findings to stakeholders and own the outcome
• Under the guidance of Strategy Consultants and Leadership, participate in / lead small to medium sized strategy projects/ work streams with the help of internal or external strategy consulting resources
• Serve as subject matter expert (resource) to staff and stakeholders on membership, growth and operational strategy issues
• Provide periodic informal work guidance/direction to other team members; Provide performance input and recommendations to management for development/ training plans.
• May have supervisory responsibilities on a project basis
• Apply a broad knowledge of concepts and principles to develop analytical frameworks, approach and methodology best practices to analyze complex strategy issues, often applying ingenuity and originality to develop unique solutions
• Other duties as assigned or requested.

Benefits

• Highmark Health and its affiliates prohibit discrimination against qualified individuals based on their status as protected veterans or individuals with disabilities and prohibit discrimination against all individuals based on any category protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.

What This Job Offers

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