Sr. Health & Benefits Data Analyst

The Sr. Health & Benefits Data Analyst turns complex health and benefits data into clear actionable insights. This role uses advanced data analytics multivariate analyses dashboards benchmarking and AI-driven analysis to show how effective programs deliver measurable results helping position the organization as a leader in benefit analytics. We are looking to hire at least 2 positions.

Job functions:

Data Analysis & Insights

• Analyze data related to benefits including medical claims pharmacy claims wellbeing programs ergonomics workers compensation disability flexible work schedule paid time off and other benefits. Identify trends correlations and leading indicators linking health and wellbeing programs initiatives and design to reductions in claims accidents and lost-time incidents.
• Support descriptive diagnostic predictive and prescriptive analyses across benefits programs (e.g. mental health fertility medical ergonomics occupational health and safety (OHS)).
• Enable ongoing evaluation of benefit suppliers and point solutions including program effectiveness utilization outcomes and cost impact.
• Build predictive models to forecast risk exposure claim frequency/severity and potential impact of preventive interventions.
• Design and deploy AI-driven models (machine learning NLP anomaly detection) to uncover hidden patterns in health safety and benefits data.
• Translate business and research questions into analytic requirements and ensure outputs are accurate interpretable and decisionready.
• Review analytic outputs for quality validity and appropriate interpretation before sharing with stakeholders. Provide training and support to benefits managers for data interpretation and validity.
• Coordinate with leaders actuary and benefit managers to develop and automate recurring reports to ensure timely and scalable insights.

Impact Measurement & ROI Demonstration

• Quantify the financial and human impact of safety and wellbeing initiatives.
• Develop frameworks to measure return-on-investment (ROI) and value-on-investment (VOI) for health benefits and safety programs.
• Produce executive-ready narratives that clearly link prevention wellbeing and safety investments to business outcomes.
• Develop standardized key performance indicators (KPIs) and indices (e.g. incident/utilization rates claim costs wellbeing return-on-investment (ROI) metrics) to enable consistent comparisons across industries and geographies.
• Use benchmarking insights to translate clear recommendations for program design investment prioritization and risk mitigation.

Stakeholder Collaboration

• Collaborate closely with a third party analytics vendor and internal health and benefits program managers to design streamline and maintain dashboards that support data driven decision-making. Ensure consistent definitions data quality and visualization standards across reporting products while translating program needs into clear analytical requirements and insights
• Support leadership with data driven insights for strategic decisions related to benefits design wellbeing initiatives and safety programs.
• Act as a subject matter expert in benefit analytics.
• Help manage analytic demand to avoid backlogs maintain momentum and ensure sustained analytic capacity.

Governance Ethics & Compliance

• Ensure data accuracy integrity and appropriate use of sensitive health and employee data.
• Comply with all relevant data privacy security and regulatory requirements.
• Support fiduciary responsibilities related to benefits decisionmaking by ensuring analyses are rigorous unbiased and welldocumented.

Key Deliverables

• Executive dashboards and reports linking health wellbeing and OHS programs to measurable outcomes.
• Industry benchmarking reports with clear performance positioning.
• Predictive risk and claims models.
• ROI evaluations and impact assessments for safety health and benefits initiatives.
• Data-driven recommendations for continuous improvement.

Qualifications :

Required Qualifications

• Bachelors or Masters degree in Data Science Statistics Economics Public Health Healthcare Economics Occupational Health Engineering or a related field.
• 5 years of experience in data analytics preferably within public health insurance benefits risk management or occupational health in a large complex organization.
• Strong experience with data analysis tools (e.g. Python R SQL etc) and experience designing and establishing dashboards from raw data using tools such as Power BI
• Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to explain complex analyses to nontechnical audiences.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working with health insurance wellbeing disability or benefits programs or datasets especially for large employers.
• Experience demonstrating program evaluations outcome measurements and ROI of health wellbeing or safety programs.
• Experience working as a liaison between groups to help reach decisions
• PhD  or PhDc in Data Science Statistics Economics Public Health Occupational Health Engineering or a related field.
• Experience supporting executivelevel or senior leadership decisionmaking.
• Experience with AI/ML techniques for analysis or to generate program insights

Compensation

The expected salary range for this position is $115000 $175000 annually. This range represents the minimum and maximum base salary we reasonably expect to pay for this role. Actual compensation within the range will depend on skills experience and qualifications.

Our Benefits

We care about your total well-being and will support you with the following subject to your location and role.

• Health: Medical dental and vision insurance life insurance employee assistance programs.
• Wealth: In addition to base pay we offer 401(k) with company match (immediate vesting upon enrollment).
• Happiness:
  • Professional Growth: Online training courses virtual and classroom development experiences tuition reimbursement program
  • Work-Life Balance: Paid-time off and family leave

In compliance with applicable state and local pay transparency laws we provide clear and equitable compensation information for all applicants.

Additional Information :

SGS is an Equal Opportunity Employer and as such we recruit hire train and promote persons in all job classifications without regard to race color religion sex national origin disability age marital status sexual orientation gender identity or expression genetics status as a protected veteran or any other characteristics protected by law.

To perform this job successfully an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily with or without reasonable accommodations. The requirements listed above are representative of the knowledge skills and/or abilities required.

This job description should not be construed as an exhaustive statement of duties responsibilities or requirements but a general description of the job. Nothing contained herein restricts the companys rights to assign or reassign duties and responsibilities to this job at any time.

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Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time