Senior Population Health Management Analyst

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in California.

📋 Description

• Lead the discovery and analysis process for intricate or cross-functional population health capabilities.

• Identify problems, delineate the scope, engage stakeholders, define outcomes, clarify assumptions, outline dependencies, set milestones, and determine analysis methodologies.

• Strategize, design, and propose enhancements to business processes and services.

• Integrate clinical, operational, technical, contractual, and data insights into viable options and recommendations.

• Conduct workshops for clients and internal teams, address requirement conflicts, foster decision-making, and convey trade-offs.

• Convert program goals into defined analysis scope, work packages, milestones, estimates, responsible parties, and completion criteria.

• Align priorities and dependencies among contributors effectively.

• Oversee the analysis of cohort identification, eligibility and attribution, risk stratification, care and quality gaps, outreach workflows, intervention tracking, outcomes, utilization, cost, and equity-focused segmentation.

• Ensure that population and measure logic is clear and reproducible.

• Assess multi-source healthcare data and analytics for lineage, consistency, completeness, timeliness, bias, privacy, and suitability for intended use.

• Create and manage requirements and analysis documents, including process models, data requirements, data dictionaries, measure specifications, report definitions, user stories, acceptance criteria, and traceability matrices.

• Utilize Jira as the primary system for tracking analysis delivery.

• Track progress, communicate metrics and status updates, identify risks, suggest mitigations, and escalate threats to commitments.

• Oversee test strategy inputs and business validation processes, encompassing test planning, defect triage, user acceptance readiness, support for release decisions, and post-implementation validation.

• Coordinate technical reviews throughout design, build, integration, testing, release, adoption, and operations phases.

• Mentor analysts and advocate for reusable standards.

⛳️ Requirements

• A minimum of six years in business analysis, healthcare analytics, health information technology, product or solution delivery, or a related field; equivalent education and experience will be considered.

• Proven experience leading complex requirements and process-analysis initiatives across business, clinical, data, and technical stakeholders.

• Strong understanding of project delivery fundamentals, including scope, work planning, milestones, dependencies, estimation, status tracking, risk and issue management, change control, quality assurance, and stakeholder communication.

• Advanced practical experience with Jira or a similar work-management platform, Excel, process modeling, and requirements traceability.

• Proficiency in using SQL or equivalent methods to analyze and validate data is highly regarded.

• Capacity to influence without direct authority, navigate ambiguity, mentor peers, and present complex recommendations clearly to clients and leadership.

• Experience with Medicaid, Medicare, health plans, accountable care, public-sector healthcare, provider organizations, or enterprise population health platforms.

• Familiarity with quality measurement, value-based care, care management, health equity, social determinants of health, risk adjustment or stratification, healthcare data models, interoperability, and privacy-sensitive analytics.

• Experience in overseeing multi-workstream technology delivery, leading user acceptance testing, supporting implementation readiness, and producing executive or client-facing recommendations.

• A Bachelor's degree in business, health administration, public health, information systems, analytics, or a related discipline is preferred.

• Business analysis, agile methodologies, healthcare quality, analytics, or project management certification is advantageous.

• Availability required from 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM Pacific Time.

• Fully remote options available from most US locations and territories.

🏝️ Benefits

• Flexible work arrangements.

• Opportunities for learning and career advancement.

• Generous and adaptable vacation policy.

• 401(k) employer matching.

• Comprehensive health benefits.

• Educational assistance.

• Leadership and technical development academies.