Director - Data Analytics

Job Description:

A strategic leader overseeing data and analytics operations across various departments and regions. This role involves directing analytical strategies to provide accurate and timely data for guiding decisions. Leads high-impact teams with expertise in healthcare data, partnering with business and clinical leaders to deploy world-class data analytics and support the mission of helping people live the healthiest lives possible and business strategies.

This Director role provides strategic leadership across key Enterprise Analytics functions, with specific responsibility for Supply Chain Analytics, Human Resource Analytics, and other Shared Services Analytics teams. The leader will partner closely with stakeholders and analytics teams to set priorities, focus drive high-impact initiatives, strengthen governance and delivery standards, and ensure analytics capabilities create measurable value across the organization.

Candidates outside of Utah may be considered, but we are are not currently hiring remote workers in the following states: CA, CT, HI, IL, NY, RI, VT, and WA. Business travel will be necessary, regardless of state of residence, and will primarily be within Intermountain Health's service area (UT, , NV, CO, WY, MT), but may also require travel within the United States.

• Develop and execute strategic plans for the entire data and analytics division, ensuring alignment with Intermountain strategies.
• Lead governance and prioritization work groups, ensuring work priorities align with business unit, region, and system priorities. Must effectively communicate with executives under high pressure and tight timelines.
• Accountable for delivering high performance on Enterprise Analytics key performance indicators (KPIs) across all teams, such as Strategic Impact, Value Realization, and Team Engagement.
• Possess an expert understanding of data platforms and architectures to enable strong partnerships with data architects, advisors, and analysts in developing analytic solutions.
• Ensure that managers of teams responsible for data deliverables adopt best practice standards that align with overall analytic and business strategies.
• Ensure alignment and support of Data Governance strategy, including data stewardship and data quality for the entire business unit, aligning with organization standards.
• Directly or indirectly lead multiple roles on collaborative delivery teams, Data Scientists, Data Analysts, Data Architects, and other supporting roles.
• Frequently interface with executive leadership, synthesizing large, complex topics into succinct and consumable forms for highest impact and decision-making.
• Provide strategic leadership and direction for departments/functions, continuously challenging the status quo by evaluating current processes and practices against industry standards both inside and outside of healthcare.
• Mentor and coach managers, supervisors, and analytic caregivers, ensuring adequate management succession plans are in place.
• Provide ongoing training, maintenance, monitoring, and promotion of data applications and reports to ensure data insights are widely known, accessible, and used to their fullest potential.
• Manage business and stakeholder relationships within areas of responsibility, focusing on solutions and strategies that create win-win situations both inside and outside of the analytic organization.
• Deliver results for areas of responsibility, including goal setting, implementation, and problem/issue resolution.

• Strategic Vision
• Executive Interaction
• Platform Mastery
• Leadership Excellence
• Stakeholder Strategy

• Bachelor's Degree in a related field with extensive professional experience in analytics and project management.
• Demonstrable experience in leading system-wide analytics projects and developing system solutions.
• Recognized domain expertise in clinical and business domains.
• Extensive expertise in Product Management, Project Management, or Program Management philosophies and methodologies, and capable of strategically applying them to complex data analytic projects to ensure alignment with business goals and efficient…