Consulting Research Analyst Or Consulting Research Associate II

Consulting Research Associate II or Consulting Research Analyst

Hybrid role (3 days/week in office) at our Portland, Medford, Fargo, Burlington, Vancouver, Renton, Boise, Lewiston or Salt Lake City offices. Candidates must reside within commutable distance of that location.

Build a career with purpose. Join our Cause to create a person-focused and economically sustainable health care system.

Every day, Cambia’s dedicated team of Consulting Research Associates and Analysts is living our mission to make health care easier and lives better. As a member of the Healthcare Informatics team, our Consulting Research Associates and Analysts provide consultation on the design, testing and enhancement of corporate programs. Achieves actionable insights and solutions using analytical and statistical methods, project management and business knowledge.

Researches and evaluates programs and outcomes to determine performance against stated objectives. Documents and communicates recommendations and solutions to business partners— all in service of creating a person-focused health care experience.

Do you have a passion for serving others and learning new things? Do you thrive as part of a collaborative, caring team? Then this role may be the perfect fit.

What You Bring to Cambia:

• Consulting Research Associate II would have a BA/BS degree in social science, public health, economics, statistics, actuarial science or equivalent related field and a minimum of 3 years of related work experience or equivalent combination of education and experience. Master's degree preferred.
• Consulting Research Analyst would have a BA/BS degree in social science, public health, economics, statistics, actuarial science or equivalent related field and a minimum of 5 years of related work experience or equivalent combination of education and experience. Master’s degree or PhD preferred.

• Perform complex analyses on programs and initiatives and creates visual representations and summary reports of findings. Develops meaningful dashboards and presentations that use information to inform and influence business activities and strategies.
• Applies knowledge of state and federal regulatory policies and procedures to program analysis and recommended actions.
• Extract, sort, cleanse, aggregate and process data from multiple sources, developing queries and reports based on business requirements.
• Work both independently and as part of a larger team supporting various internal customer groups on identifying business challenges and evaluating solutions to achieve objectives.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to develop business cases, identify business problems and understand desired business outcomes.
• Completes analysis and applies judgment to derive recommendations for complex challenges and initiatives.
• Ensures the appropriate identification of root causes through effective use of data analysis tools and techniques.
• Prepares and presents standard and ad-hoc analysis to business partners that help guide decisions and support results.
• Experience with AI tools and technologies to enhance productivity and decision-making in professional settings highly desired.

• Perform responsibilities above with an increased degree of independence and self-direction.
• Provide higher level consultation on findings and recommendations.
• Works and interacts across the organization with a variety of business units.

• Experience with analytical / statistical programming tools for data extraction and summarization, statistics, visualization and analysis (Alteryx, SAS, SQL, R, Tableau, etc.). Ability to develop and modify queries to extract large amounts of data for standard and ad‑hoc data requests.
• Experience with pre-processing of data, such as cleansing, aggregating, sorting, and combining data. Ability to combine multiple sources of data.
• Experience or coursework in advanced analytics such as analytic discovery, descriptive statistics, forecasting, experimental design, statistical inference, or predictive models.
• Ability to analyze and…