Milliman is seeking a technically savvy, analytically strong Senior Healthcare Analytics Lead to manage analytics and technology projects as well as coach and mentor junior analytical staff. The ideal candidate is someone seeking to join a challenging, yet rewarding environment focused on delivering world-class analytics across a variety of healthcare-related domains to a variety of healthcare entities.
Who We Are
Independent for over 75 years, Milliman delivers market-leading services and solutions to clients worldwide. Today, we are helping companies take on some of the world’s most critical and complex issues, including retirement funding and healthcare financing, risk management and regulatory compliance, data analytics and business transformation.
Job Responsibilities
- Manage analytics and technology consulting projects, engagements, and research efforts
- Communicate and coordinate amongst Milliman Consultants, project staff, and our clients to meet milestones and timelines
- Contribute to technical deliverables using analytics software (for example, SAS, SQL, R, Excel, etc.)
- Delegate to, coach, and mentor junior analytical staff, including data engineers, analysts, and actuaries
- Take ownership of project deadlines and deliverables
- Design and develop a modeling approach to actuarial problems by utilizing large health claim datasets
- Oversee and/or perform Extract, Transform, Load (ETL) tasks on healthcare data, including intake, manipulation, and quality assessment of enrollment, medical claims, and pharmacy claims
- Develop analytical and project roadmaps, planning out the “data to deliverable” runway and identifying potential roadblocks ahead of time
- Participate in client meetings, including occasional travel to client sites
- Identify and meet confidentiality, data security, and incident response obligations based on laws, regulations, policies, grants, contracts, binding commitment (e.g.- data use, participant consent, and confidentiality agreements), Institutional Review Board, and other organization and external requirements relating to data used
Minimum requirements
- Bachelor’s degree required (Computer Science, Management Information Systems, Computer Engineering, Math, Actuarial Science, Data Analytics, or related degree is preferred)
- 6+ years of health data analytics or similar experience
- Advanced proficiency using SAS, Python, R, or other programming languages
- Advanced proficiency using Excel
- Basic proficiency using Tableau or PowerBI
- Able to interpret, scrub, process, explain, and teach others healthcare claims data
Competencies and Behaviors that Support Success in this Role
- Proficiency in database architecture, healthcare and pharmacy claims data, and CMS data sets
- Payer healthcare claim data experience, eligibility data and healthcare industry knowledge
- Skilled in the use of relational databases and familiar with database extract and analyzing tools for utilizing multiple large data sets
- Sharp critical thinking skills, sound judgment and decision-making ability, and both the ability and willingness to clearly articulate your ideas
- Analytical thinker, able to assess problems logically
- Fast learner
- Strong communication skills and experience working with a team
- An inherent sense of the value of collaboration
- The ability to work both collaboratively and independently
- Proven ability to work in a fast-paced environment where the client is always first
- Experience delegating tasks to junior staff
- Experience mentoring junior staff
The Team
The Senior Healthcare Analytics Lead will join a team that thrives on leveraging data, analytics, and technology to deliver meaningful business value. This is a team with technical aptitude and analytical prowess that enjoys building efficient and scalable products and processes. Ultimately, we are passionate about effecting change in healthcare. We also believe that collaboration and communication are cornerstones of success.
The Senior Healthcare Analytics Lead will also join a mix of Healthcare Analysts, Leads, Consultants, and Principals. In addition, as part of the broader Milliman landscape, they will work alongside Healthcare Actuaries, Pharmacists, Clinicians, and Physicians. We aim to provide everyone a supportive environment, where we foster learning and growth through rewarding challenges.
Salary: The salary range is $80,000 to $125,000, depending on a combination of factors, including but not limited to education, relevant work experience, qualifications, skills, certifications, location, etc.
Location: It is preferred that candidates work on-site at our Chicago, IL, Milwaukee, WI, or Hartford, CT office. Remote candidates will be considered.
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.
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