Manager, Data and Business Analysis

abacusinsights; India; Hybrid; INR 1,400,000 - 2,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Abacus Insights is expanding its data analytics leadership in health plans from Pune and other locations. The Manager, Business and Data Analysis will steer a distributed team within Client Solutions, ensuring high-quality requirements, analyses, and implementations for complex payer use cases.

You will stay close to delivery while coaching the team, manage capacity, and collaborate with Business Solution Managers, Solution Architects, Data Engineering, QA, Product, and Program Management.

Qualifications

• Experience leading a distributed team of analysts.
• Strong background in US healthcare payer data and analytics.
• Hands-on manager with delivery oversight.

Responsibilities

• Lead a geographically distributed team of Business and Data Analysts.
• Manage day-to-day people leadership, including performance, workload, development and succession planning.
• Establish expectations, operating rhythms, and accountability across locations and time zones to drive delivery.
• Balance team capacity and priorities across client programs and resources as needs evolve.
• Set standards for requirements gathering, data analysis, mapping, documentation, and validation.

Job description

About Us

Abacus Insights is transforming how data and AI work for health plans. Our mission is simple: make healthcare data usable, so the people responsible for care and cost decisions can act faster, with confidence.

As the AI and Data Platform for Payer Intelligence, we help health plans break down data silos to create a single, trusted data foundation. That foundation powers better decisions-so plans can improve outcomes, reduce waste, and deliver better experiences for members and providers alike. Backed by $100M from top investors, we're tackling big challenges in an industry that’s ready for change. Our platform enables GenAI use cases by delivering clean, connected, and reliable healthcare data to support automation, prioritization, and decision workflows-and it's why we are leading the way.

Our innovation begins with people. We are bold, curious, and collaborative-because the best ideas come from working together. We embrace the thoughtful use of AI and automation to drive innovation and efficiency, and we look for individuals who are curious and adaptable-those excited to leverage emerging technologies to enhance how we work-while keeping human insight, connection, and our clients at the center of every decision.

Ready to make an impact? Join us and let's build the future together.

About the Role

Abacus Insights is looking for a Manager, Business and Data Analysis to lead a distributed team of Business and Data Analysts within Client Solutions. This is a hands‑on people leadership role requiring prior experience as a manager with direct responsibility for leading, developing, and managing teams. The Manager will lead team members based in Pune as well as other delivery locations, requiring the ability to effectively manage distributed teams across locations and time zones.

You will bring strong experience working with US healthcare payer data, healthcare administration systems, and complex healthcare use cases, with demonstrated exposure to areas such as HEDIS and quality measures, CMS interoperability, risk adjustment, prior authorization, claims, provider, membership and eligibility, and other payer‑focused analytics or implementation use cases. You will be accountable for both people leadership and delivery excellence, ensuring the quality of requirements, data analysis, solution design, mapping, and supporting documentation critical to successful client implementations.

This is a working‑manager role. You will stay close to client delivery and technical analysis while coaching the team, managing capacity and priorities, resolving escalations, and partnering with Business Solution Managers, Solution Architects, Data Engineering, QA, Product, and Program Management.

Your day to day

Lead the Team

Lead, coach, and develop a geographically distributed team of Business and Data Analysts, ensuring strong performance, engagement, and career development.

Manage day‑to‑day people leadership, including performance management, workload allocation, development planning, and succession readiness.

Establish clear expectations, operating rhythms, and accountability across locations and time zones to drive consistent communication and delivery.

Manage and balance team capacity and priorities across multiple client programs, adjusting resources as business and engagement needs evolve.

Establish and reinforce standards, templates, review mechanisms and best practices for requirements gathering, data analysis, source‑to‑target mapping, solution documentation, and validation.

Review and guide team deliverables to ensure requirements and analysis are clear, complete, technically sound, and implementation‑re