Data Manager, Health Equity Outcomes
Topeka, Shawnee County, Kansas, 66652, USA
Listed on 2026-01-11
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Healthcare
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At Humana, we are focused on the elimination of unjust, avoidable and unnecessary barriers in health and health care. The Data Manager 2 (DM2), reporting to the Health Equity Strategy Lead, supports the whole-person, integrated care model for members in our Medicaid and Medicare market to help build the toolkit for equitable population health. In particular, we partner with executives, managers and other leads to advance Care Management, Quality Improvement, Community Engagement, Marketing, Health Economics and Finance to bring a greater understanding of factors that apply to wellbeing from a view of physical, behavioral and spiritual health.
The Data Manager 2 supports all aspects of configuration control, data management, and deficiency reporting. The Data Manager 2 work assignments are varied and frequently require interpretation and independent determination of the appropriate courses of action.
Responsibilities include implementation of government and industry policies for requirements management, document management, change management, data analytics production and delivery, and configuration management of the performance, functional, and physical baselines. This position also acquires, validates, stores, protects, and processes required data to ensure the accessibility, reliability, and timeliness of the data for its users. The DM2 develops and executes architectures, policies, data equity principles and practices, and procedures that properly manage the full data lifecycle needs of an enterprise.
Understands department, segment, and organizational strategy and operating objectives, including their linkages to related areas. Makes decisions regarding own work methods, occasionally in ambiguous situations, and requires minimal direction and receives guidance where needed. Follows established guidelines and procedures.
Development of analytic and decision-making processes, outcome and impact measures to assess diverse populations across these sample traits: race, ethnicity, primary language, rural access to care, People with Disabilities, gender, sexual preference, and other environmental factors such as zip codes, provider network, Disproportionately Impacted Areas (DIAs), or Social and Structural Determinants of Health (SSDOH).
Promotes and helps build a greater understanding of data trends applicable to equitable population health and improved health outcomes.
Creates detailed documentation of data methodologies to support trust in data/results, audits, and to meet requirements set by enterprise teams to include Medicaid Governance, the Center of Clinical Effectiveness Services & Products, as well as external reporting to the state related to our health insurance members.
Ability to work independently to design and deliver descriptive clinical analytics projects to profile clinical populations and determine drivers/factors associated health care needs, utilization, and outcomes.
Detailed documentation of data methodologies to support trust in data/results.
Develop productive relationships with Medicaid operations IT, the data warehouse team, and users of data (Finance, Clinical, Actuarial, DH&A analyst and report end users).
Required Qualifications
Bachelor's Degree
3+ years technical experience in compiling, modeling, interpreting and analyzing clinical and population health data in order to identify, explain, influence variances and trends.
Advanced skills with Microsoft Excel including advanced formulas, pivot tables, charts, V-Lookups and graphs.
Working knowledge with coding in SQL and data extraction and (BI) analysis technologies such as SAS, SPSS, R, Minitab, Qlik View, Tableau, Azure Synapse Analytics (ASA) or Power
BI.Working knowledge of ad-hoc query tools and data repositories that support data extraction and manipulation.
Enthusiasm for helping to address the needs of vulnerable populations to achieve improved outcomes and services.
Master's degree in Epidemiology, Biostatistics or Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Engineering and/or related field.
Proficient in the use of statistical analysis software.
Travel:
While this is a remote position, occasional travel to Humana's offices for training or meetings may be required.
Final date to receive applications: 01-08-2026
Scheduled Weekly Hours40
Pay RangeThe compensation range below reflects a good faith estimate of starting base pay for full time (40 hours per week) employment at the time of posting. The pay range may be higher or lower based on geographic location and individual pay will vary based on demonstrated job related skills, knowledge, experience, education, certifications, etc.
$73,400 - $100,100 per year
This job is eligible for a bonus incentive plan. This incentive opportunity is based upon company and/or individual performance.
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