Analytics & Consulting Leader – Data Commercialization

Lockton Companies; Kansas City (MO); On-site; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Lockton Companies is seeking an Analytics & Consulting Leader to build and lead a modern analytics team within the data commercialization practice. The role focuses on healthcare analytics, measurement science, and evidence-based insights to improve outcomes and reduce cost of care.

The leader will guide analytics engineers, data analysts, and subject matter experts to deliver trusted, reproducible, and decision-ready analytics using Azure, Databricks, Python, Power BI, and Tableau.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in a quantitative field.
• 10+ years of healthcare analytics, health economics, or related fields.
• 5+ years leading analytics teams with US healthcare data.
• Experience with emergency room visits, inpatient admissions, quality measures, and utilization trends.
• Strong SQL proficiency and cloud analytics experience.
• Experience with Python, R, or other stats languages.

Responsibilities

• Develop and execute analytics strategy aligned with goals.
• Lead a high-performing team of healthcare analysts and measurement experts.
• Establish governance, metric standardization, data quality, and reproducibility.

Skills

Leadership

Communication

Stakeholder management

SQL

Python

R

Education

Bachelor's degree in Statistics, Economics, Public Health, Biostatistics, Epidemiology, Data Science, Health Services Research, Computer Science

Advanced degree in Biostatistics, Epidemiology, Health Economics, Public Health, Data Science

Tools

Azure

Databricks

Power BI

Tableau

Snowflake

Job description

Analytics & Consulting Leader – Data Commercialization

Kansas City, Missouri, United States of America

At Lockton, we’re passionate about helping our people achieve their ultimate potential. Our people are curious, action-oriented and always striving to make ourselves and those around us better. We’re active listeners working to ensure understanding and problem solvers developing innovative solutions. If you can see yourself delivering excellent service to clients, giving back to our communities and being a part of our caring culture, you belong here.

We are seeking an experienced and innovative analytics leader to build and lead a modern analytics team within our data commercialization practice. This role combines deep domain expertise across insurance products such as medical, life and disability, with advanced analytics leadership and modern data platform capabilities. The ideal candidate has successfully led teams responsible for healthcare analytics, analytics engineering, data modeling, and measurement science while delivering actionable insights that improve health outcomes, member experience, and cost of care.

This leader will oversee the development of scalable analytics products, modern semantic and metrics layers, healthcare utilization and outcomes measurement, and advanced observational research methodologies. They will guide a multidisciplinary team of analytics engineers, data analysts, and insurance subject matter experts to deliver trusted, reproducible, and decision-ready analytics.

The successful candidate will ideally possess deep expertise in U.S. healthcare data, including commercial, Medicare, Medicaid, medical and pharmacy claims, eligibility, provider, and clinical data sources, along with strong experience conducting matched cohort studies, utilization analyses, and healthcare outcomes evaluations.

Key Responsibilities

Analytics Leadership & Strategy

• Develop and execute the analytics strategy aligned with organizational goals.
• Build and lead a high-performing team of healthcare analysts and measurement experts.
• Establish best practices for analytics governance, metric standardization, data quality, and reproducibility.
• Partner with business, clinical, actuarial, operations, finance, and product leaders to deliver strategic insights and measurable value.
• Create an analytics culture focused on business impact, scientific rigor, and continuous improvement.

Analytics Engineering & Modern Data Practices

• Lead adoption of modern analytics engineering principles including analytics as code
• Oversee healthcare data models supporting utilization, quality, cost of care, provider performance, risk adjustment, and consumer analytics.
• Partner with data engineering teams to create scalable, trusted analytics products and capabilities.
• Drive implementation of technologies such as Azure, Databricks, Python, Power BI, Tableau

Healthcare Analytics & Utilization Measurement

• Lead integrated and advanced analyses across all aspects of healthcare, disability, and leave data.
• Develop and validate methodologies for identifying healthcare events from claims and clinical data.
• Ensure consistent definitions and measurement approaches across reporting and research initiatives.
• Partner with clinical and operational stakeholders to identify actionable opportunities for improving outcomes and reducing unnecessary utilization.

Advanced Research & Causal Analytics

• Design and oversee observational research studies using large healthcare datasets.
• Lead causal inference and quasi-experimental evaluations including matched cohort studies, propensity score matching, longitudinal outcome studies, program and intervention evaluations
• Establish rigorous methods for measuring treatment effects and program impacts in real-world healthcare settings.
• Translate complex statistical findings into business and clinical recommendations.

Stakeholder Engagement

• Serve as a trusted advisor to executive leadership.
• Present findings and recommendations to senior executives, clinical leaders, and external stakeholders.
• Influence strategic decisions through evidence-based insights and clear communication.
• Foster strong partnerships across technology, operations, finance, actuarial, population health, and clinical teams.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Statistics, Economics, Public Health, Biostatistics, Epidemiology, Data Science, Health Services Research, Computer Science, or related field.
• 10+ years of experience in healthcare analytics, health economics, outcomes research, population health analytics, or related disciplines.
• 5+ years leading high-performing analytics teams with deep expertise in U.S. healthcare data, including medical claims, pharmacy claims, eligibility data, provider data, clinical/EHR data, Medicare and commercial health plan datasets
• Demonstrated experience identifying and analyzing emergency room visits, inpatient admissions, quality measures, cost and utilization trends
• Strong understanding of healthcare coding systems including ICD-10, CPT/HCPCS, Revenue codes, Place of Service codes, NDC
• Significant experience conducting matched cohort studies and observational healthcare research.
• Advanced SQL proficiency and strong understanding of modern cloud analytics ecosystems.
• Experience with Python, R, or other statistical programming languages.
• Excellent leadership, communication, and stakeholder management skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Advanced degree (MS, MPH, DrPH, PhD, or equivalent) in Biostatistics, Epidemiology, Health Economics, Public Health, Data Science, or related field.
• Experience leading analytics engineering or data product teams.
• Knowledge of, risk adjustment methodologies, quality measurement programs, value-based care analytics, population health management and health economics and outcomes research (HEOR)
• Experience with causal inference frameworks and advanced statistical methodologies.
• Familiarity with NCQA, HEDIS, CMS quality measures, and healthcare regulatory reporting.
• Experience working with cloud platforms such as Databricks, Azure, Snowflake, AWS, or Google Cloud.

Equal Opportunity Statement

Lockton Companies is proud to provide everyone anequal opportunity to grow and advance. We are committed to an inclusive culture and environment where our people, clients and communities are treated with respect and dignity.

At Lockton, supporting diversity, equity and inclusion is ingrained in our values, and we believe that we are at our best when we fully embrace everyone. We strive to cultivate a caring culture that learnsfrom, celebrates and thrives because of ourbreadth of differences. As such, we recognize that recruiting, developing and retaining people with diverse backgrounds and experiences is vital and enabling our people to thrive personally and professionally is critical to our long-term success.

About Lockton

Lockton is the largest privately held independent insurance brokerage in the world. Since 1966, our independence has allowed us to serve our clients, take care of our people and give back to our communities. As such, our 13,100+ Associates doing business in over 155 countries are empowered to do what’s right every day.

At Lockton, we believe in the power of all people. You belong at Lockton.

How We Will Support You

At Lockton, we empower you to be true to yourself in all that you do. Your success is our success, and we provide opportunities to help you grow and create a rewarding career path, however you envision it.

We are ready to meet you where you are today, and as your needs change over time. In addition to industry-leading health insurance, we offer additional options to support your overall health and wellbeing.

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