Principal Data Analyst

Summary

Join Cohere Health's Health Value Optimization Insights team as a Principal Analyst. Lead the development and execution of valuable insights to drive data-driven decision-making in healthcare. Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including clinical, actuarial, and business stakeholders. Mentor junior analysts and identify trends and cost drivers for improved utilization management. Translate complex data insights into actionable business recommendations. This role requires strong analytical skills, healthcare experience, and proficiency in data visualization and reporting tools.

Requirements

• 7+ years of professional data analysis experience in the healthcare industry (payer, provider or consulting)
• Masters degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Epidemiology or closely related field
• Strong knowledge of healthcare data, including claims, authorizations, EMR, HEDIS, and risk adjustment
• Proficiency in leveraging data visualization and reporting tools to extract insights (Tableau, Power BI, SQL, etc.)
• Excellent verbal and written communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to translate complex data insights into business recommendations

Responsibilities

• Analyze, manipulate, or process large sets of data using statistical & analytics software to transform data into inferences with respect to cross-functional workflows and their intersection with clinical content, services, products and client needs
• Drive design and development cross functionally to produce data analytics and reports to draw clinical insights to: Identify target patient and provider populations; Define outcome and success metrics and set targets with clinical program leaders; Monitor clinical programs and pilots and refine targets; Perform formal ROI evaluations to quantify financial impact of initiatives
• Maintain and manage documentation of methodology of opportunity analysis/impact evaluation analysis to allow for scalability to multiple programs and interventions across types of services, care paths/diagnosis groups and lines of business (e.g. Medicare Advantage, Medicaid, Commercial)
• Proactively identify opportunities and questions to inform clinical specialty programs including analyzing market, payer and provider variations in trends, utilization, cost and quality by line of business and procedure
• Collaborate with clinicians, program implementation and operations experts, informaticists, data scientists and actuaries to support clinical programs and pilot designs
• Act as a strategic partner to clients by interpreting data and translating insights and opportunities into business value through data-driven storytelling
• Coordinate and lead analytics activities across multiple projects simultaneously, delegating work to junior analysts and aligning with senior leaders and program managers on delivery timelines and criteria
• Support the onboarding, training and development of junior analysts at Cohere

Preferred Qualifications

Experience working in a healthcare technology startup or a fast-paced, innovative environment

Benefits

• Health insurance
• 401k
• Bonus