Business Analytics Senior Advisor - Oncology and Specialty Medication - Hybrid

Position Summary:

The Business Analytics Senior Advisor role will focus on driving Affordability improvement within targeted high-cost specialty areas. This role is an opportunity to work collaboratively across the enterprise with clinical leaders, business stakeholders, and other analysts. The Business Analytics Senior Advisor is responsible for in-depth analysis (including adhoc analyses), development and maintenance of reports, dashboards and other BI solutions, and presentations that support and fulfill business needs across the enterprise.

Reporting to the Health Condition Analytics Oncology lead, this position will help to assist in complex data research and analytics to support affordability improvement in medical specialty pharmacy and enterprise oncology strategy. The candidate filling this position will require a strategic, collaborative mindset that will help support the existing landscape and must also take ownership of new initiatives and projects. The analyst will apply fundamental clinical knowledge combined with understanding the unit cost variation, utilization levels, and mix of services to identify new initiatives to lower the overall cost of care.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Create and maintain large-scale data extraction, transformation, analysis, and data visualizations

• Build suites of tools, designed to assist with a variety of management functions including dashboards, data visualizations, reports, data-extracts, and in-depth analyses

• Own the development of robust business cases for initiatives identifying the key enablers of success, affordability opportunity, necessary investment and timeline for goal achievement.

• Present with subject matter expertise in medical specialty and oncology cost and trend analytics

• Partner with cross-functional teams focused on targeted medical specialty and Oncology care. Participate in meetings to elevate analytic findings across enterprise oncology stakeholders

• Lead complex data research and analysis to support business operations including creating data mining architectures/models/protocols, and data analysis methodologies.

• Exercise considerable creativity, foresight, and judgment in conceiving, planning, and delivering on analytic projects

• Exhibit full understanding of data and leverage data in an appropriate way (correct sources, clear assumptions, approved by business)

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree required in preferred fields of Statistics, Biostatistics, Econometrics, Economics, Actuarial Science, Data Science or equivalent and a minimum 8 years’ experience solving business problems through the application of analytic approaches

• Proven experience in health insurance payer analytics using healthcare data (claims, provider, membership enrollment) for medical, pharmacy, and behavioral care

• Required experience in business intelligence tools: Tableau, Excel based reporting

• Required experience in Advanced SQL (Databricks) and SAS (also preferred: Alation, SQL Server, Python and/or R)

• Analytics experience providing creative insights based on documented, efficient, and repeatable analytic processes

• Preferred understanding of basic biology and clinical drivers of health care utilization: anatomy, physiology, preventive care, condition treatment, medical terminology, etc

• Previous work experience applying a combination of analytical, technical and business acumen

• Demonstrated experience in challenging problems and driving outstanding results

• Strong verbal/written communication skills to work with various enterprise partners, including but not limited to actuarial, medical economics, business, marketing, and IT/IM

If you will be working at home occasionally or permanently, the internet connection must be obtained through a cable broadband or fiber optic internet service provider with speeds of at least 10Mbps download/5Mbps upload.

For this position, we anticipate offering an annual salary of 109,500 - 182,500 USD / yearly, depending on relevant factors, including experience and geographic location.

This role is also anticipated to be eligible to participate in an annual bonus plan.

We want you to be healthy, balanced, and feel secure. That’s why you’ll enjoy a comprehensive range of benefits, with a focus on supporting your whole health. Starting on day one of your employment, you’ll be offered several health-related benefits including medical, vision, dental, and well-being and behavioral health programs. We also offer 401(k) with company match, company paid life insurance, tuition reimbursement, a minimum of 18 days of paid time off per year and paid holidays. For more details on our employee benefits programs, visit Life at Cigna Group.

About The Cigna Group

Doing something meaningful starts with a simple decision, a commitment to changing lives. At The Cigna Group, we’re dedicated to improving the health and vitality of those we serve. Through our divisions Cigna Healthcare and Evernorth Health Services, we are committed to enhancing the lives of our clients, customers and patients. Join us in driving growth and improving lives.

Qualified applicants will be considered without regard to race, color, age, disability, sex, childbirth (including pregnancy) or related medical conditions including but not limited to lactation, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran or military status, religion, national origin, ancestry, marital or familial status, genetic information, status with regard to public assistance, citizenship status or any other characteristic protected by applicable equal employment opportunity laws.

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The Cigna Group has a tobacco-free policy and reserves the right not to hire tobacco/nicotine users in states where that is legally permissible. Candidates in such states who use tobacco/nicotine will not be considered for employment unless they enter a qualifying smoking cessation program prior to the start of their employment. These states include: Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Iowa, Kansas, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Nebraska, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas, Utah, Vermont, and Washington State.

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