Associate, Commercial Strategy

Summary

Join Cedar as an Associate, Commercial Strategy and contribute to improving the healthcare financial experience. This role focuses on supporting commercial teams, enhancing Sales Engineering effectiveness, and identifying opportunities for growth. You will work cross-functionally, analyze data, and create tools and processes. The ideal candidate possesses experience in a commercial role, strong analytical and communication skills, and proficiency in Excel and PowerPoint. Cedar offers a competitive salary, equity, and a comprehensive benefits package, including unlimited PTO, paid parental leave, and professional development opportunities.

Requirements

• 2+ years of experience in an analyst or operations role
• Self-motivated and comfortable working in an entrepreneurial environment
• An analytical attitude, extremely strong attention to detail, and passion for problem solving
• Experience working with cross-functional teams
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills (verbal and written)
• Excellence with Excel and Powerpoint (or Google Sheets and Slides)
• Passionate about Cedar’s mission of improving the healthcare finance experience

Responsibilities

• Work cross-functionally to support Cedar’s sales efforts including but not limited to supporting RFPs, pitch decks, ROI/pricing analyses, etc
• Identify and act on opportunities to enable the Sales Engineering team, including documenting best practices, organizing team training, and maintaining cross-team channels for feedback and information sharing
• Create and improve workflows and systems used by the Sales Engineering team, such as RFP tools, knowledge repositories, and ROI templates
• Develop subject matter expertise of Cedar’s core value proposition, product offerings, integrations and delivery approach and competitive landscape
• Exemplify Cedar’s values of focusing on our vision, using good judgment, applying a growth mindset, and rejecting mediocrity

Preferred Qualifications

• Management consulting, investment banking, or other commercial role experience a plus
• Healthcare and/or technology experience a plus

Benefits

• Salary Range*: $ 76,500 - $ 100,000
• This role is also equity eligible
• This role offers a competitive benefits and wellness package
• Unless stated otherwise, most roles have flexibility to work from home or in the office, depending on what works best for you
• For exempt employees: Unlimited PTO for vacation, sick and mental health days–we encourage everyone to take at least 20 days of vacation per year to ensure dedicated time to spend with loved ones, explore, rest and recharge
• 16 weeks paid parental leave with health benefits for all parents, plus flexible re-entry schedules for returning to work
• Diversity initiatives that encourage Cedarians to bring their whole selves to work, including three employee resource groups: be@cedar (for BIPOC-identifying Cedarians and their allies), Pridecones (for LGBTQIA+ Cedarians and their allies) and Cedar Women+ (for female-identifying Cedarians)
• Competitive pay, equity (for qualifying roles) and health benefits that start on the first of the month following your start date (or on your start date if your start date coincides with the first of the month)
• Cedar matches 100% of your 401(k) contributions, up to 3% of your annual compensation
• Access to hands-on mentorship, employee and management coaching, and a team discretionary budget for learning and development resources to help you grow both professionally and personally