Director of Program Analytics

We've made a lot of progress since opening the doors in 1942, but one thing has never changed - our commitment to serve, heal, lead, educate, and innovate.  We believe that every award earned, every record broken and every patient helped is because of the dedicated employees who fill our hallways. 

At Ochsner, whether you work with patients every day or support those who do, you are making a difference and that matters.  Come make a difference at Ochsner Health and discover your future today! 

This job manages, designs, and conducts quantitative analyses on a wide range of health care financing, delivery, quality, and coverage issues.

Education 

Required - Bachelor's degree in Healthcare, Public Health, Business or related field

Preferred - Masters or PhD in healthcare, statistics, mathematics, data science, public health or related field

Work Experience

Required - 8 years related work experience.

Preferred – 10+ related work experience with at least 6 years of supervisory experience.

Knowledge Skills and Abilities (KSAs)

• Experience in building and managing highly competent and talented analytic teams

• Experience working with analytics in the payor/insurance space (fraud, epidemiology/care management, actuarial, marketing/consumer dynamics, or financial) or provider/clinical space (Pharma, health system)

• Experience with healthcare claims data and/or clinical data from electronic medical information systems

• Experience managing large data sets and using quantitative and qualitative analysis to draw meaningful and valid insights

• Experience using SQL, SAS/Python/R; Strong understanding of R, Python, or SAS;

• Strong understanding of TSQL or PL/SQL; Strong understanding of different database environments including cloud-based ones (AWS, Azure)

• Experience with modern visualization tools (Tableau, PowerBI, Cognos) and/or other data analysis tools.

• Strong communication skills (both oral and written); Must be able to present results to senior leadership, internal and external stakeholders

• Excellent organizational, motivational and interpersonal skills, capable of interfacing well at multiple levels within a large organization.

• Outstanding analytic and modeling skills, proficient at conceptualizing, implementing, and evaluating highly accurate and scalable analytics solutions to business problems.

• Knowledge of health-related analytics concepts such as risk stratification, episode groupers, and benchmarks

• Professional and positive approach in building relationships and quickly gain credibility with senior executives.

Job Duties

• Leveraging extensive, deep analytical knowledge and team leadership skills to drive the development of analytical solutions to meet the customer needs.

• Work and communicate with customer regularly and understand their ask/vision/goals

• Work with the customers on the prioritization regularly and organize the analytics throughput needed to meet the demands/needs

• Leading a multi-disciplinary team to develop analytics, including tableau development, report development, and overall prioritization process

• Function as a senior level coach and mentor to analysts; ensure quality results across the team while scaling our analytics functionality

• Leading the initiatives involving exploration and analysis of data across a variety of data platforms.Champion the execution of analysis to address specific clinical/business problems determined by consultation with various stakeholders across the organization.

• Develop sophisticated data products (visualizations, insights etc.) for business users.

• Challenge conventional thinking and traditional ways of operating as you work with stakeholders to identify and improve the status quo.

• Partnering with peers to identify gaps, improve quality, and share techniques and learnings.

• Serve as the subject matter expert in analytics, population health, claims data, and overall analytics experience

• Act as a subject matter expert in analytics and bring best in class, innovative ideas to test and measure performance and impact programs

The above statements describe the general nature and level of work only. They are not an exhaustive list of all required responsibilities, duties, and skills. Other duties may be added, or this description amended at any time.

This employer maintains and complies with its Compliance & Privacy Program and Standards of Conduct, including the immediate reporting of any known or suspected unethical or questionable behaviors or conduct; patient/employee safety, patient privacy, and/or other compliance-related concerns.

The employer is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, or disability status.
 

Physical and Environmental Demands

The physical essential functions of this job include (but are not limited to) the following:  Frequently exerting 10 to 20 pounds of force to move objects; occasionally exerting up to 100 pounds of force. Physical demand requirements are in excess of those for sedentary work. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Are you ready to make a difference? Apply Today!

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