Under general supervision, this position exists to assist the organization in making strategic data-related decisions by analyzing, manipulating, tracking, internally managing, & reporting data. This position takes an active leadership role as both as a consultant & as a high-level SAS programmer.
Essential Functions:
- Leads, makes significant contributions, and/or provides technical leadership to high visibility projects to identify & resolve issues of strategic importance to the organization
- Interfaces regularly w/ senior management to produce timely & valuable results
- Directs the development of outcomes & process measures, including technical specifications, to enable population measurement, guideline implementation, & evaluation
- Builds & maintains complex statistical SAS routines using macros, vendor software, & software written by self & others
- Tests & maintains data integrity across multiple databases (internal SAS, DB2, VSAM; external: Adobe, Excel, SAS parsing routines, COBOL)
- Builds sophisticated statistical models & forecasting tools using these databases
- Designs & enhances databases
- Designs menu systems that are effective & user-friendly
- Develops reports w/ accurate, easy to read, useful information that satisfies the client's needs
- Designs & generates tracking & monitoring tools
- Designs research plans for data gathering & analysis; participates significantly in interpreting analyses & developing action plans accordingly
- Defines & frames complex multi-dimensional health care issues & develops time tables/ processes for decision making
- Translates needs, issues, & ideas into effective strategies & action plans
- Formulates specific implementation plans & evaluates the effectiveness of actions/programs implemented
- Develops creative alternative solutions
- Works closely w/ IT & outside partners (and physicians for TPMG departments)
- Sets the strategic direction of projects
- Determines goals & priorities w/ team, clients, or project management sponsors (when appropriate)
- May coordinate team/project activities & schedules
- May establish team membership & project participants, provide leadership to multi-disciplinary project teams, as well as manage work of outside consultants when used
- Communicates results/recommendations to project sponsors, clients, & various senior level audiences (including physicians for TPMG departments)
- May participate in the development & management of the department, including coaching & recruiting for consultants/analysts & other departmental activities
Qualifications:
Basic Qualifications:
- Master's Degree in economics, finance, health care administration, public health administration, statistics, mathematics, operations research, or related field required OR equivalent Bachelor's Degree and work experience in lieu of a Master's Degree.
- Five (5) or more years programming in SAS, SQL, VBA, .net or equivalent statistical analytical programming language.
- Experience with analytical manipulation and interpretation of large databases required.
- Experience with MVS/TSO operating systems required.
- Microsoft Office skills required.
- Typically five (5) or more years of related analytical consulting experience, healthcare experience preferred.
- Project management experience strongly preferred.
- Broad familiarity with medical practices, especially population management and process and outcomes measurement.
- Knowledge of JCL strongly preferred.
- Exceptional analytic and critical thinking skills, writing skills, communication skills, consulting skills, and ability to work within a team.
- Ability to express complex analytical and technical information to senior management or to audiences with clinical training.
- Must be an independent self-starter.
- Proven leadership in consulting and, for some areas, project management.
- Must exhibit efficiency, collaboration, candor, openness, and results orientation.
- Must be able to work in a Labor/Management Partnership environment.
External hires must pass a background check/drug screen.
We are proud to be an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer.