Senior Strategy Analyst - Medicare; Hybrid- Pittsburgh, PA

Position: Senior Strategy Analyst - Medicare (Hybrid)- Pittsburgh, PA
UPMC Health Plan has an exciting opportunity for a Senior Strategy Analyst for the MC SNP Data Analytics department! This is a full-time position working Monday through Friday daylight hours and will be a hybrid position consisting of working from home and in office.

As a Senior Strategy Analyst, you will play a crucial role in various project teams, addressing strategy and growth issues across all UPMC divisions. This position provides: market research, reporting (e.g., calculate market share), and analysis (e.g., identify and explain trends underlying volume changes) to support a portfolio of projects. This position develops new analytical and reporting tools in anticipation of new projects/engagements.

Responsibilities:

+ Supports a portfolio of multiple active projects simultaneously with the ability to transition priorities as needed

+ Selected duties include: the preparation and formatting of standard and customized data reports; the creation of decision support tools such as utilization models-primarily descriptive in nature; profiles and assessments of market trends, new markets, competitors and complementors, clinical capacity and patient throughput; literature reviews; assessing financial documents, complete maps using software tools; analysis of patient satisfaction data.

+ Conduct peer benchmarking analyses, analyze UPMC's locations by market and service type, and support UPMC's systemwide community benefits reporting tool.

+ Ensures the quality of analytical work through a formal review/quality check process.

+ Identifies technical errors and limitations, as well as potential methodological and logic deficiencies in final deliverables.

+ Develops validation and testing protocols to ensure accuracy and quality of final deliverables.

+ Ability to clearly and concisely communicate to a variety of audiences in both oral and written formats.

+ Recognize and use correct grammar, punctuation, and spelling; write in proper formats to meet informational needs; communicate information in a succinct and organized manner; and produce technical written information.

+ Ability to effectively express information (e.g., ideas, facts) to individuals and/or groups, adapting to the target audience, as well as the nature of the information (e.g., technical, sensitive, controversial).

+ Applies knowledge of research techniques, critical thinking, and structured analytical techniques to analyze and resolve multifaceted issues/problems in support of UPMC priorities.

+ Analyze and visualize data to support decision-making processes and achieve organizational goals.

+ Synthesize findings and implications of data into reports and exhibits that support actionable decision making.

+ Works collaboratively with data translators and visualizers to convey data insights clearly and accurately to various stakeholders.?

+ Develops and maintains trusted working relationships with internal UPMC departments, and external third-party consultants/vendors as appropriate and directed.

+ Interact with clinical and non-clinical teams throughout each project to ensure data definitions and assumptions are accurate, and that deliverables meet the needs of the target audience.

+ Assist in organizing and leading discussions with multi-disciplinary teams.

+ Actively research new industry trends and market dynamics; identifying those that may impact UPMC and convey those to the Departments' leaders, develop knowledge and subject matter expertise around UPMC's full spectrum of operations and markets served.

+ Stay up to date on new solutions relevant to the department through various webinars, training and intermittent conferences requiring brief travel.

+ Master new data intel and computer software programs and upgrades, as applicable.

+ Exhibit advanced problem-solving using various information sources.

+ Performs in accordance with system wide competencies/behaviors.

+ Performs other duties as assigned.

+ Bachelor's level degree with 5 years of relevant experience or Master's level degree with 3 years of relevant experience required

+ Preference is given to MBA, MHA, and analytically oriented programs such as economics, statistics, information sciences, or mathematics.

+ Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite (Excel, PowerPoint, Teams, etc.) is essential.

+ The candidate should be comfortable with relational databases and have experience in advanced Excel capabilities (Pivot tables, programming macros, etc.).

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Experience with commercial Healthcare data (Vizient, Sg2) and Government datasets, Power BI, Qlik/Qlik Sense is preferred.

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Experience with Access, Visual Basic, SQL and econometric analysis is helpful but not required.

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Experience with SPSS, SAS, or other another statistical application, as well as other data tools such as Advisory Board, Thompson, and Data Bay is preferred.

+ Relevant experience in the following areas is required: (1) market research (2) experience using quantitative, business intelligence and/or relational database. (3) manipulation of data.

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