Head of Analytics Business Partners

Surescripts; Minneapolis (MN); Hybrid; USD 168,000 - 205,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible Hybrid Work

Competitive compensation

Extensive benefits

Job summary

Surescripts seeks a seasoned Analytics Business Partner leader to coach a team driving data and analytics delivery across pods. You will own the intake process, standardize prioritization, and collaborate with product, strategy, finance, and clinical teams to deliver business value.

You will lead planning cycles, manage cross-functional dependencies, and promote data literacy while ensuring alignment with enterprise goals and regulatory considerations.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in business, engineering, economics, information systems, data science, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
• 8+ years of experience in healthcare, health technology, or data and analytics environments.
• 5+ years translating business needs into data and analytics solutions (e.g. product owner, analytics business partner, analytics product manager, or program lead).
• 3+ years of people management, or progressive leadership of cross-functional teams.
• Demonstrated experience with agile delivery, backlog management, sprint and quarterly planning, and capacity-based commitments.

Responsibilities

• Hire, develop, and coach a team of Analytics Business Partners who lead the business side of D&A delivery pods, building their skills in backlog ownership, prioritization, and stakeholder management.
• Assign ABPs to pods and business domains, arrange backup coverage, and step in to lead a pod's business priorities when needed.
• Define and own the enterprise intake process for data and analytics requests, making sure every request is reviewed, receives a clear decision, and reaches the right team.
• Maintain a consistent approach to prioritization across pods so that work is ranked on business value and stakeholders know where their requests stand.
• Coordinate work that spans multiple pods or depends on shared platform teams, resolving sequencing conflicts and bringing trade-offs to business sponsors when scope or timing needs to change.
• Lead quarterly planning with pod leads and D&A leadership, and report on demand, capacity, and delivery performance.
• Establish and cultivate relationships with business leaders across product, strategy, finance, sales, account management, clinical, and internal functions to understand their goals and shape analytics needs early.
• Assess how delivered solutions are used and whether they produce the expected business value, and share the results with stakeholders and D&A leadership.
• Partner with data engineering, analytics, data science, data governance, and product management teams to keep roles and ownership clear.
• Promote self-service and data literacy (in partnership with the Data Literacy Manager), steering recurring requests toward reusable data assets.
• Continuously improve how the ABP team and the pods work together, using stakeholder feedback and delivery results.

Skills

Backlog management

Stakeholder management

Agile delivery

Leadership

People management

Education

Bachelor's degree in business/related field

Tools

Jira

SQL

Job description

Surescripts seeks a seasoned Analytics Business Partner leader to coach a team driving data and analytics delivery across pods. You will own the intake process, standardize prioritization, and collaborate with product, strategy, finance, and clinical teams to deliver business value.

You will lead planning cycles, manage cross-functional dependencies, and promote data literacy while ensuring alignment with enterprise goals and regulatory considerations.