Medical Economics Lead Analyst

Cigna Health and Life Insurance Company; India; On-site; INR 1,800,000 - 3,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Cigna Health and Life Insurance Company is seeking a Medical Economics Lead Analyst to identify drivers of medical cost and utilization across international markets and translate findings into actions that improve affordability and outcomes.

The role combines healthcare claims analytics, advanced statistics, and data visualization to develop scalable solutions, evaluate interventions, and present insights to senior stakeholders for strategic decisions.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Statistics, Actuarial or equivalent.
• 7+ years of health insurance analytics experience.
• Strong healthcare claims data knowledge: diagnosis, procedures, utilization.
• Proficient in SQL and data visualization tools; Qlik Sense preferred.
• Excellent analytical, stakeholder management and presentation skills.

Responsibilities

• Identify drivers of medical trend across utilization, unit cost, provider mix, disease burden, and benefit design.
• Perform root-cause analysis to distinguish between pricing, utilization, and population health impacts on medical cost trends.
• Evaluate the effectiveness of implemented Network, Clinical, and FWA interventions and quantify realized impact.
• Develop repeatable analytical frameworks that improve the speed and consistency of opportunity identification.
• Present findings and recommendations to senior business stakeholders in a concise and action-oriented format.
• Design and develop self-service Qlik Sense dashboards that enable stakeholders to quickly identify opportunities and trends.

Skills

Analytical thinking

Stakeholder management

Presentation skills

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Statistics, Actuarial or equivalent

Tools

SQL

Data manipulation tools

Qlik Sense

Job description

**Medical Economics Lead Analyst** **Position Summary**The International Health Medical Economics team is seeking a Medical Economics Lead Analyst to help identify the drivers of medical cost and utilization trends and convert data into actions that improve affordability and health outcomes. This role offers the opportunity to work with large-scale healthcare claims and eligibility datasets across international markets while partnering with Network, Clinical, and Fraud, Waste & Abuse teams to influence key business decisions. The successful candidate will combine healthcare claims expertise, advanced analytics, and data visualization to identify savings opportunities, evaluate intervention effectiveness, and develop scalable analytical solutions that drive measurable business impact. **Responsibilities*** Investigate drivers of medical trend across utilization, unit cost, provider mix, disease burden, and benefit design.* Perform root-cause analysis to distinguish between pricing, utilization, and population health impacts on medical cost trends.* Evaluate the effectiveness of implemented Network, Clinical, and FWA interventions and quantify realized impact.* Develop repeatable analytical frameworks that improve the speed and consistency of opportunity identification.* Present findings and recommendations to senior business stakeholders in a concise and action-oriented format.* Design and develop self-service Qlik Sense dashboards that enable stakeholders to quickly identify opportunities and trends* Quantify the financial impact of new and existing savings initiatives to support annual planning process* Contribute to the development of new analytical approaches, tools, and methodologies **Qualifications*** Bachelor’s degree required (Finance, Statistics, Actuarial or equivalent)* 7+ years of experience in health insurance analytics* Strong understanding of healthcare claims data, including diagnosis, procedure, provider, place-of-service, utilization, pricing, and member-level information.* Proficiency in SQL, data manipulation tools and data visualization platforms (Qlik Sense preferred)* Excellent analytical, stakeholder management and presentation skills required