Senior Director, Medical Economics

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Kansas, +3 more states.

📋 Description

• Oversee the delivery of analytic services by aligning strategic goals with tools, capabilities, and the deployment of analytic teams.

• Provide leadership across various health plans, business partners, and functional areas.

• Facilitate healthcare analytics, financial modeling, savings validation, forecasting, performance monitoring, and executive reporting.

• Collaborate with clinical, operational, and business leaders to pinpoint opportunities, assess outcomes, and promote data-driven decision-making.

• Direct analytics projects and strategic initiatives on an enterprise-wide scale.

• Convert business objectives into actionable solutions, performance enhancement opportunities, and value realization strategies.

• Foster development between business and technical partners, translating analytical insights into practical business recommendations and operational strategies.

• Convey strategic intent and visibility to analytic teams.

• Manage expectations and relationships with executive customers.

• Align team objectives and resource allocation with strategic goals and business requirements.

• Act as the primary domain contact and escalation point to ensure a strong customer partnership and satisfaction.

• Lead the execution of analytics strategy, including forecasting, savings validation, KPI development, and measurement of business outcomes.

• Guide leaders within analytic domains to align business needs and co-create analytic solutions.

• Mentor and manage leaders and analysts, ensuring their ongoing development.

⛳️ Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in business, economics, statistics, mathematics, actuarial science, public health, health informatics, healthcare administration, finance, or a related field.

• Over 8 years of experience in healthcare analytics.

• Experience in leading an organization, formulating strategic plans, and operationalizing functional teams to fulfill business requirements or strategic goals.

• Proficiency in SQL or querying languages.

• Experience with table creation and indexing, query optimization, and stored procedures.

• Ability to collaborate with technical teams and interpret complex analytical outputs.

• Proven ability to mentor and train leaders across various focus areas.

• Must have authorization to work in the U.S. without the need for employment-based visa sponsorship, now or in the future.

• Preferred direct experience in strategic planning, value realization, healthcare cost optimization initiatives, and solution development.

• Experience in financial modeling, forecasting, performance measurement, and healthcare analytics within a healthcare business environment is preferred.

• Preferred knowledge of Python and R.

• Familiarity with data modeling, trend analysis, root-cause analysis, forecasting, savings validation methodologies, and healthcare performance measurement is preferred.

• Experience in leading change management initiatives and supporting strategic business initiatives is preferred.

• Preferred knowledge of Microsoft PowerBI.

🏝️ Benefits

• Competitive pay.

• Health insurance.

• 401K plan.

• Stock purchase plans.

• Tuition reimbursement.

• Paid time off plus holidays.

• Flexible work approach.

• Options for remote, hybrid, field, or office work schedules.