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Posted November 29, 2021
Blue Shield of California

Data Analyst - Health, Consultant

California, USA Remote Full Time

Your Role The Performance Insights team is responsible for providing executive business leaders with the insights and guidance necessary to make...

Your Role

The Performance Insights team is responsible for providing executive business leaders with the insights and guidance necessary to make informed decisions. The Health Data Analyst – Consultant will report to the Senior Manager of Performance Insights. In this role, the Health Data Analyst – Consultant will use their critical thinking, problem solving, and technical skills to design, develop, and deliver the insights and analytics necessary to drive informed decision-making at the executive level. The Health Data Analyst - Consultant will independently intake, synthesize, and analyze significant amounts of data to produce business relevant insights, presenting actionable findings succinctly and articulately to stakeholders.

Your Work

  • Provide insights on highly complex topics, through the analysis and interpretation of data, in support of cross-functional business operations
  • Design and develop performance reports and insights, utilizing data from multiple sources, for consumption by various levels of executive management
  • Translate findings from data into consumable, actionable insights via summaries, visualizations, and recommendations
  • Drive requirements discovery efforts with stakeholders and key business partners to identify and frame business challenges, insight needs, output needs, and project success criteria
  • Partner with cross-functional business owners to identify and act upon performance and process improvement opportunities
  • Fulfill analytical requests of varying complexity timely and accurately, under minimal supervision
  • Collaborate with other technical and service platform support teams to identify, analyze, and recommend improvements to current enterprise data resources
  • Critically review and revise reports and reporting sources to accommodate updates and enhancements
  • Provide technical guidance and support to the Enterprise Data team in designing and conducting data collection initiatives
  • Continuously expand technical skills and business acumen to adequately field increasingly complex projects


Your Knowledge and Experience

  • Requires an MPH, MBA, MS, MA in science, social science, public health, health services research or business, or BA/BS with demonstrated equivalent work experience
  • Requires at least seven (7) years’ prior relevant work experience
  • At least four (4) years’ experience working with SQL/SAS, manipulating and analyzing data to independently form business insights
  • Requires at least five (5) years’ experience with data analytics and insights within the Healthcare industry
  • Exceptional analytical and problem-solving abilities
  • Strong ability to translate business needs into actionable analytics, manipulate mass data, and translate analytics results into valuable business insights
  • Demonstrated experience working autonomously with business reporting, analytics, data mining, and developing key performance metrics in complex environments
  • Strong investigative skills, including root-cause analyses, technical troubleshooting, process analyses, and infrastructural gap analyses
  • Strong interpersonal skills with ability to work in a team environment and communicate effectively with cross-functional audiences of varying technical knowledge
  • Experience working with Tableau reporting tools (Desktop, Server, Prep) including experience standing-up Tableau Server environments, preferred.

This listing expired on Dec 29. Applications are no longer accepted.

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