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Company: Kaiser Permanente
Location: Oakland, CA
Career Level: Associate
Industries: Recruitment Agency, Staffing, Job Board

Description

Job Summary:

This individual contributor is part of the Analytics Insights Team, sitting within KP's Markets Outside California Health Plan Analytics Team (an 80-strong group covering a broad array of analytics from care continuum performance to network optimization). The Analytic Insights team is a small group of senior consultants tasked with connecting each market's financial performance with its strategies (spanning care delivery operations, network management, product strategy,…). As a member of this team, this role will work closely with senior consultants to facilitate analyses, provide technical support, and assisting in communicating insights.


Critical skills and experience needed:



  • Understanding of healthcare economics and health plan functions

  • Technical analytical skills – comfort pulling and analyzing large datasets

  • Collaborative mindset with the desire to develop analytic and consultative skills


We are a growing team delivering new analytical capabilities and engaging with senior leaders who are excited by the work. The Analytics Insights team is a diverse and high-performing group with experience from different parts of KP, and from non-KP health plans and delivery systems. This role provides an excellent opportunity for individuals who are passionate about analytics and seeking to develop their skills in a supportive and dynamic team environment. We welcome candidates who are eager to contribute to our mission of driving strategic insights to improve healthcare strategy.



Essential Responsibilities:

  • Practices self-development and promotes learning in others by proactively providing information, resources, advice, and expertise with coworkers and customers; building relationships with cross-functional stakeholders; influencing others through technical explanations and examples; adapting to competing demands and new responsibilities; listening and responding to, seeking, and addressing performance feedback; providing feedback to others; creating and executing plans to capitalize on strengths and develop weaknesses; supporting team collaboration; and adapting to and learning from change, difficulties, and feedback.

  • Completes work assignments and supports business-specific projects by applying expertise in subject area; supporting the development of work plans to meet business priorities and deadlines; ensuring team follows all procedures and policies; coordinating resources to accomplish priorities and deadlines; collaborating cross-functionally to make effective business decisions; solving complex problems; escalating high priority issues or risks as appropriate; and recognizing and capitalizing on improvement opportunities.

  • Executes creative data analytic approaches leading to actionable outcomes by defining and calculating metrics to be analyzed; defining, calculating, and validating algorithms; and conducting analyses, including descriptive, correlational, inferential, and/or predictive statistics.

  • Develops, implements, and automates business and reporting solutions by working with stakeholders in their design, planning, and implementation while ensuring consistency and coherency; evaluating and summarizing data and results; creating summary statistics; developing data reports, visualizations, and/or interactive Business Intelligence (BI) reports; reporting to stakeholders on key findings; identifying needs for the development and implementation of additional reporting solutions; and preparing documentation as appropriate.

  • Interprets data analyses by applying findings to contextual settings; and developing insights, reports, and presentations telling a compelling story to stakeholders to enable and influence decision making; and providing context related to data interpretations and/or limitations as appropriate.

  • Drives strategic data-informed decisions by consulting with clients to identify and clarify key business needs; developing outcomes and process measures; translating business requirements; determining data/information needs and data collection methods; developing analysis plans; measuring the impact of business decisions on clients, customers, and/or members; working with clients and staff to identify opportunities and methods to improve efficiencies with analysis; supporting and training end-users; and documenting processes and deliverables.

  • Gathers data and information on targeted variables in an established systematic fashion by validating data sources; querying, merging, and extracting data across sources; completing routine data refresh and update; developing and/or delivering tools for electronic data collection; and providing user training, support, and documentation.

  • Develops analytical and/or statistical models enabling informed business decisions by determining data and analytical requirements; creating models leading to actionable insights; and testing, refining, and validating models.

  • Prepares data for analytic efforts by integrating and consolidating data; ensuring data quality and accuracy; profiling data inaccuracies and recommending process improvements or system changes to enhance overall quality of the data; and cleaning and creating final data set(s) for analysis.


Minimum Qualifications:

  • Minimum one (1) year experience in a leadership role with or without direct reports.

  • Bachelors degree in Mathematics, Statistics, Engineering, Social/Physical/Life Science, Business, or related field and Minimum five (5) years experience in data analytics or a directly related field. Additional equivalent work experience in a directly related field may be substituted for the degree requirement.


Additional Requirements:
  • Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities (KSAs): Negotiation; Business Planning; Written Communication; Data Extraction; Data Mining; Data Visualization Tools; Statistical Programmin


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