Head of Data Analytics & AI Insights

Cardinal Health; Jackson (MS); Remote; USD 107,000 - 152,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical coverage

Dental coverage

Vision coverage

Paid time off

HSA

401k

MyFlexPay

FSAs

Disability coverage

Work-Life resources

Parental leave

Healthy lifestyle programs

Job summary

Cardinal Health's Sonexus Access and Patient Support seeks a Manager, Data Analytics & Decision Science to lead a team turning data into insights that drive decisions and measurable outcomes.

The role partners across analytics, operations, technology, and strategy, advancing modernization with Databricks, automation, data science, and AI-enabled analytics to elevate patient and financial outcomes.

Qualifications

• 8-12 years of experience, preferred.
• Bachelor’s degree in analytics, data science, statistics, economics, business, computer science, engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience, preferred.
• Strong ability to translate business problems into analytical questions and recommendations.
• Experience leading and developing analysts or analytics teams.
• Experience with Databricks or a similar modern cloud data and analytics platform.
• Strong working knowledge of SQL and business intelligence or visualization tools such as Tableau or Power BI.
• Experience applying AI or generative AI to analytics or business workflows.
• Healthcare, pharmaceutical, patient services, specialty pharmacy, payer, or related industry experience.

Responsibilities

• Lead, coach, and develop a high-performing analytics team.
• Partner with business leaders to identify the most important questions, decisions, and opportunities analytics can support.
• Deliver insights that improve patient, operational, customer, and financial outcomes.
• Develop analytics that look across businesses and programs to identify trends, benchmarks, leading indicators, and opportunities that may not be visible within individual programs.
• Communicate complex findings clearly to senior leaders and nontechnical audiences.
• Partner with data engineering, technology, governance, and other teams to ensure analytics is built on trusted and scalable data.

Skills

Team leadership

Analytics strategy

SQL

Databricks

BI tools (Tableau/Power BI)

AI in analytics

Healthcare domain

Education

Bachelor's degree in analytics/data science

Tools

Databricks

Tableau/Power BI

Job description

Cardinal Health's Sonexus Access and Patient Support seeks a Manager, Data Analytics & Decision Science to lead a team turning data into insights that drive decisions and measurable outcomes.

The role partners across analytics, operations, technology, and strategy, advancing modernization with Databricks, automation, data science, and AI-enabled analytics to elevate patient and financial outcomes.