Business Analytics Advisor Hybrid

Digital and Analytics offers innovative solutions that provide actionable insights to internal and external business partners and customers that help reduce health costs improve outcomes provide financial security and measure/forecast business performance. Advanced Supply Analytics & Design drives the vision and delivery of solutions to maximize healthcare affordability through the provider profiling and tiered network products for steerage to high performing providers. This role will lead advanced analytics and data science focused on the identification of high performing providers to enable steerage geo-access network adequacy & design of competitively affordable network products. Additionally this role will collaborate on advanced analytics roadmap including working with the Data Science Center of Expertise to progress technical and methodological capabilities using the Analytics Platform. This role will provide insights influence business strategy and execute in partnership with stakeholders product management and IT via agile delivery teams.

So youre excited and motivated to take over this challenging role by becoming the newest member of this team Great choice! Lets check some boxes to see if you fit the bill:

• Champion advanced analytics and data science as a strategic capability
• Influence business partners using analytic insights
• Prototype and iterate cloud-based dashboards in collaboration with key business stakeholders
• Collaborate with production/engineering teams

Role Summary

This person will be an individual contributor responsible for conducting advanced network & provider profiling analytics generating actionable insights and resources while working with agile development teams to scale solutions for maximum business impact.

Responsibilities Include:

• Execute and apply advanced analytical techniques to deploy robust valuation improvement focused on cost quality and access
• Execute effective and externally defensible provider performance methodologies to drive steerage
• Execute on effective prediction and monitoring of results from our provider networks
• Closely partner with business (Network Strategy Risk Management & Affordability Provider Management) to set and deploy high value analytics enhancements
• Present analytic findings and recommendations to non-technical business partners and leadership to drive data driven strategies
• Propose and develop KPIs and operationalize solutions into a coded protoype/MVP
• Ask questions and collaborate to solve problems in team environment
• Explore innovative solutions to business questions/problems

Qualifications & Competencies Required

This position requires healthcare and insurance content knowledge advanced analytics and data science expertise comfort with advanced analytics toolkit (SQL Python/R) and leadership ability. This position will drive market value by participating in a highly matrixed structure with business stakeholders and Agile model that enables and evolves new concepts and ideas to supercharge Evernorths Affordability strategy.

• Minimum of an advanced degree in a quantitative field such as Computer Science Statistics Biostatistics Actuarial Science Data Science Epidemiology or equivalent work experience
• 3 years of healthcare analytics industry experience solving business problems through the application of descriptive diagnostic and prescriptive analytics approaches. Ability to think from statistical perspective - significance testing confidence intervals bias and variance is required
• Healthcare Analytics expertise 3 years of hands on experience with healthcare data (e.g. claims eligibility profiling EMR) statistical and observational studies 1 years of experience and training with advanced analytics techniques like episode groupers (Optum ETG EBM ERG Prometheus etc.) provider profiling network adequacy steerage analytics geo-spatial & social network analytics risk adjustments etc.
• Technical expertise - Strong technical skills and hands on experience required to extract transpose and analyze administrative healthcare claims housed in cloud based Analytics Platform using advanced tools including SQL Python R; experience with or willingness to learn Git/Github preferred
• Healthcare subject matter expertise 2 years of experience of direct industry experience through conferences and relationship management strong healthcare and / or health plan business acumen for developing actionable guidance using key metrics communicated in an easy to understand manner demonstrated understanding of health care and delivery system processes strong clinical knowledge and applications into relevant analytics

• Ability to consistently deliver on-time while managing multiple projects at the same time
• Ability to successfully navigate and contribute in a highly-matrixed environment with multiple stakeholders from across the organization
• Go Getter who enjoys problem solving and creating innovative solutions and visions working with various business stakeholders

• Strong verbal/written communication and leadership skills to work with various matrix partners including but not limited to clinical actuarial medical economics contracting business marketing and IT/IM.

This role is also anticipated to be eligible to participate in an annual bonus plan.

We want you to be healthy balanced and feel secure. Thats why youll enjoy a comprehensive range of benefits with a focus on supporting your whole health. Starting on day one of your employment youll be offered several health-related benefits including medical vision dental and well-being and behavioral health programs. We also offer 401(k) with company match company paid life insurance tuition reimbursement a minimum of 18 days of paid time off per year and paid holidays. For more details on our employee benefits programs visit Life at Cigna Group.

About The Cigna Group

Qualified applicants will be considered without regard to race color age disability sex childbirth (including pregnancy) or related medical conditions including but not limited to lactation sexual orientation gender identity or expression veteran or military status religion national origin ancestry marital or familial status genetic information status with regard to public assistance citizenship status or any other characteristic protected by applicable equal employment opportunity laws.

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The Cigna Group has a tobacco-free policy and reserves the right not to hire tobacco/nicotine users in states where that is legally permissible. Candidates in such states who use tobacco/nicotine will not be considered for employment unless they enter a qualifying smoking cessation program prior to the start of their employment. These states include: Alabama Alaska Arizona Arkansas Delaware Florida Georgia Hawaii Idaho Iowa Kansas Maryland Massachusetts Michigan Nebraska Ohio Pennsylvania Texas Utah Vermont and Washington State.

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